Posts Tagged ‘Quentin Tarantino’
Author: James
Quentin’s back to his best
Lt. Aldo Raine: The German will be sickened by us, the German will talk about us, and the German will fear us.
Order has been restored – Quentin Tarantino’s previous film, Death Proof (2007) suffered somewhat from being crap.
Author: James
Tales of ordinary sadness
It’s not quite yet a cinematic cliche, but the format chosen by Cédric Klapisch (Les Poupées russes (2005), Ni pour, ni contre (bien au contraire) (2002)) in Paris (2008) has antecedents in films as diverse as Robert Altman’s Short Cuts (1993), Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction (1994) and Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Babel (2006), namely seemingly disparate stories that are in fact linked by chains visible only to viewers – no man is an island, as John Donne put it.
Author: Colin
Oh yes…
I’d like to say you heard it here first, but it’s all over the bloody internet by now. On the back of her ‘controversial’ three-way sex romp with Javier Bardem and Penelope Cruz in the new Woody Allen potential yawn-fest Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008), scarlettjohansson.com has made the official offer of a threesome of your very own with the eponymous young lady.
Author: James
Shit and run
It really must have seemed like a great idea at the time. Quentin Tarantino teamed up with Sin City director Robert Rodriguez for a 70s sleaze-fest double bill, Grindhouse, which combines Rodriguez’s zombie-schlock-splatter extravaganza Planet Terror (2007) with Tarantino’s offering, Death Proof, plus several fake 70s-style trailers.
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