Quentin Tarantino

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Sukiyaki Western Django movie review

by Chris   ⋅   April 14, 2008   ⋅   Comments [2]

Director: Takashi Miike
Starring: Kaori Moimoi, Hideaki Ito, Yoshino Kimura
Genre: Indie, Bad Ass Chicks, Japan, Action
This film has been covered ad-nauseum on other websites, so I’ll make this relatively short. For those of you not in the know, Sukiyaki Western Django is Takashi Miike’s Japanese western. Now, each and every film student knows about the [...]

Death Proof movie review

by Chris   ⋅   April 22, 2007   ⋅   Comments [19]

At just 80 minutes Death Proof is Quentin’s shortest film to date, and somehow his most interminable. Overly chatty and under-compelling, its tale of a stuntman/serial killer (a vehicular-homicidal maniac) lulls when it should wow and stalls when it should kick into high gear. The film is broken into two halves, the first concerning a [...]

Kill Bill vol. 2 guest movie review

by Chris and Kris   ⋅   May 4, 2004   ⋅   Comments [10]

The first half of Quentin Tarantino’s “Kill Bill” was an action fever dream with moments of disproportionate intensity worthy of Michael Powell or Brian De Palma. In “Vol.2,” the tempo slows down but the characters deepen and expand as the saga comes to an end. The film should really be seen as a whole – [...]

Kill Bill vol. 1 he-said-she-said movie review Screener! +japanese-cut dvd!

by Chris and Kris   ⋅   October 7, 2003   ⋅   Comments [12]

WHY CAN’T WE BE FRIENDS?
HE SAID: Kill Bill Vol. 1 is Quentin Tarantino’s loveletter to exploitation, grindhouse, and overall bad-taste cinema. He references absolutely everything he loves: De Palma, Switchblade Sisters, Shaw Brothers films (it actually opens with the shaw scope logo), Japanese samurai splatter, Italian Giallos, Master of the Flying Guillotine, etc, [...]

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