Roy Ayers Movies

The makers of Art City, Vol. 3: A Ruling Passion features interviews with modern artists talking about their inspirations and the motifs present throughout their bodies of work. The filmmakers sit down with artists as diverse as Ed Ruscha, Louise Bourgeois, and Michael Ray Charles. ~ Perry Seibert, Rovi

Vibraphone master Roy Ayers brings his distinctive brand of smooth jazz to an appreciative live audience in a live performance featuring seven of the eclectic artist's greatest hits. His music samples by such popular artists as A Tribe Called Quest, Brand Nubian, Mary J. Blige, and Sean "Puffy" Combs, Ayers and his skilled backup band offer a soulful lesson in the old school by performing such tunes as "Mystic Voyage", "Love Will Bring Us Back", "Everybody Loves the Sunshine", and "Hot". ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi

Writer-director Jack Hill (Spider Baby, Switchblade Sisters) managed to beat Death Wish to the screens by a year with this violent tale of a citizen touched by crime and deciding to fight back. Her little 11-year old sister is a hopeless addict, the police can't help, and poor Nurse "Coffy" Coffin (Pam Grier) has no choice but to take the law into her own hands. Posing as a Jamaican prostitute, Coffy infiltrates the lairs of pimp King George (Robert DoQui) and kingpin pusher Vitroni (Allan Arbus). Eventually, after her childhood sweetheart is beaten into a coma and she finds out her politician-lover (Booker Bradshaw) is involved, Coffy kills everyone with a shotgun. However, by having a black woman named Coffy get injected with a sugar mixture (the crooks think it's heroin), one can only imagine the filmmakers cackling about Coffy with cream and sugar. In fact, the original ad line promised "Coffy...she'll cream you!" ~ Robert Firsching, Rovi