A couple of weeks ago I received an email from my friend Bill. Being a bit of a movie buff, he had come up with this idea, of us all hosting a movie night round each others house and that the host dictates the choice of movie.

Naturally, being the creator of this monthly event, Bill hosted the first evening last Saturday.

An early contender for his choice of movie was “The Amazing Mr No Legs”, a film in which Bill described as “probably the best cop thriller with a wheelchair bound bad ass mob enforcer battering guys with his stumps, ever!”. I swear to god, he is not making this up:

However, after showing us that one scene, Bill advised that “that is about as good as it gets” and cut the performance short (pun not intended). The next film on the agenda was “Disco Godfather”.

“Disco Godfather” is a 1979 blaxploitation film, about a retired cop, Tucker Williams, who has since become a celebrity disco DJ... as you do. I'm not too sure about the plot, as it was all a bit of a mess from the get go.

It starts off with a LOT of gratuitous disco scenes, no nudity or violence, just lots of disco dancing – I think there was even a bit featuring rollerskates. Then the Disco Godfather comes onto the scene (with possibly one of the best entrances ever!) and dances his way to the decks. He then spends the next five minutes shouting out “Put your weight on it, PUT YOUR WEIGHT ON IT!!”.

Straight after the gratuitous disco scene, we're introduced to Bucky, the Disco Godfathers nephew – Bucky is an up and coming basketball player. During this scene, Bucky does some angel dust and then proceeds to have the worst trip ever commited to celluloid.

He stumbles back into the disco, plays some imaginery basketball with himself and then starts to freak out, when he starts having visions of some weird zombie woman. After a while, some men in white coats appear and take him to the hospital.

After this, it cuts to the hospital, where the Disco Godfather is wearing the most outstanding 70s outfit and is walking down the hall with Buckys doctor, who looks like shaft (with sun glasses!).

It becomes clear that this angel dust drug is a problem - so much a problem, there is one patient in the hospital who has her whole family praying by her bedside. I say praying, it was more like a scene from The Exorcist, which if you ask me would only exacerbate the situation – but there you go, I have never taken angel dust, done an exorcism and I am not a doctor, so what do I know?

Anyway, the rest of the film centres on the disco godfather resolving this problem by promising “to personally come down on the suckers that's producing this sh#t!” - cue lots of kung fu fight scenes in tracksuits and more gratuitous disco scenes (he still does this when he isn't fighting crime).

And basically, that is it.

We also watched another film which, I can't remember what it was called, but I know it featured the same actor in “Disco Godfather” (Rudy Ray Moore), as a martial arts trained comedian (a bad one at that, he just insults the audience) and he was somehow bribed into marrying the devil's daughter, who in the final scene is revealed to be a right minger!

In all my years of watching films that feature the character of Satan, I can safely say I have never seen him portrayed as a middle aged, African American, who goes jogging and runs like a girl! That is until now of course.

It also features one of the most unrealistic birth scenes ever - basically, you see the characters birth and when he pops out, he is a 13 year old boy who then proceeds to beat everyone up - I guess that bit was written to show how bad ass he is!