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Also known as In Your Face, this blaxploitation relic has a black militant youth leader injected with a serum that makes him bulletproof and – voilà – he turns the community around. (For more on the Something Weird Wednesdays series see austinchronicle.com/issues/dispatch/2001-02-16/screens_feature.html or www.drafthouse.com.)
This article appears in February 15 • 2002.
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Marjorie Baumgarten is a film critic and contributing writer at The Austin Chronicle, where she has worked in many capacities since the paper's founding in 1981. She served as the Chronicle's Film Reviews editor for 25 years. More by Marjorie Baumgarten
