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How can the ostensibly evangelical Pete Hegseth place Quentin Tarantino on the same footing as the word of God? An example from the early 11th century provides clues.
Playing on a sort of fabricated nostalgia for the 80s, this film presents a version of the period that lacks any real insight or depth.
In 1994, Pulp Fiction dazzled audiences with its intricate storylines, cult cast and blackly comic tone. Its legacy is staggering.
For every film that makes it to our screens, hundreds if not thousands fail to make it.
Stepping back from acting after a diagnosis of aphasia, Bruce Willis will perhaps be best remembered from Die Hard. Here are some other films where he shone.
The composer of over 500 film scores, Morricone was embraced by Hollywood — but he was always an Italian composer.
There’s a reason why horror films are becoming more and more absurd.
The film Bastille Day – featuring a CIA agent trying to avert a terror attack in Paris – has been withdrawn from French cinemas after the tragedy in Nice. But what are we to make of Hollywood’s fondness for these kinds of stories?
The Hateful Eight has been praised as a violent but optimistic story of men working to come together – but it’s also been derided as a thinly veiled exercise in misogynistic violence.
Quentin Tarantino has secured his place in popular culture by reaching into neglected corners of cinema for genres that are ready for reinvention and rediscovery.
The global color authority seems intent on obliterating the confines of gender-color associations.
Performers and audiences alike are undermined by graphic depictions of violence, like Michieletto’s Guillaume Tell.
With Spike Lee’s Da Sweet Blood of Jesus in the news for the film’s straight-to-Vimeo release, and Quentin Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight currently in production (see Samuel L. Jackson’s Camera+ page for…
This year, America will celebrate the 150th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation, a presidential decree that effectively abolished slavery in all states in rebellion during the Civil…
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