“Wham! Bam! Here comes Pam!” Thus reads the tagline of Pam Grier’s 1975 film Friday Foster, the final in her illustrious line of 1970s Blaxploitation films. If one way to know you’ve made ...

Helen Hunt of “Twister” and “Mad About You” fame will also appear at the annual pop culture convention later this month.

shot like a film,” the actress said. Foxy Brown was part of a Blaxploitation trilogy, sandwiched between Coffy and Jackie Brown. “Foxy was strategically more radical and aggressive,” Grier ...