‘Jackie Brown’— Character Development Done Right
Quentin Tarantino’s Jackie Brown: A Retrospective There is a lot to be said about writer-director Quentin Tarantino’s success as a filmmaker. His films have all...
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10 Years Later: ‘Inglourious Basterds’ Showed Us a Brand New Way to Root Against Nazis
The tradition of Nazis being villains in movies — and those movies inviting audiences to cheer for those Nazis’ defeat — is one that goes...
Ranking the Showdowns of ‘Kill Bill’
by Mike Worby
The art of the showdown is an integral part of both westerns and samurai films. With Tarantino's Kill Bill sharing equal parts of both genres, it makes...
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Quentin Tarantino Triumphs with ‘Once Upon a Time in Hollywood’
by Brian Marks
Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon a Time in Hollywood is the best film he's made since Jackie Brown and his most emotional ever....
Greatest Scenes From Quentin Tarantino Movies
by Staff
“Say what again… I dare you… I double dare you, motherf$ker!”...
Quentin Tarantino’s Descent Into Sadism
by Brian Marks
Quentin Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight (“The 8th Film From Quentin Tarantino,” as the opening credits remind viewers), is his most violent film. Every act of...
What Remains of Quentin Tarantino’s First Film, My Best Friend’s Birthday
With Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood out this week, our staff has been hard at work putting together some retrospective pieces on...
Martin Scorsese or Quentin Tarantino: Whose Streets Are Meaner?
by Bill Mesce
Quentin Tarantino Spotlight I’ve got Martin Scorsese and Quentin Tarantino on my mind these days, mostly because of a statement the younger filmmaker had made...
The Power of a Name in ‘The Hateful Eight’
by David Harris
Quentin Tarantino Spotlight What’s in a name? What kind of power and reputation does it hold? If a new movie is announced and it’s a...
‘Planet Terror’ vs. ‘Death Proof’
A cinematic nod to films of the past that pushed boundaries and tested the artistic taste of both audiences and filmmakers alike....
‘From Dusk Till Dawn’ – Horror and the Tarantinoverse
by Victor Stiff
From Dusk Till Dawn is a crime-ridden nightmarescape that never fails to excite....
The ‘Pulp Fiction’ Pawn Shop: Tarantino’s Greatest Terror
by Ty Davidson
Quentin Tarantino Spotlight “I think the gimp’s sleepin“ Everyone knows the scene. Two sweating, bleeding men with plastic red balls stuffed in their mouths awaken,...
‘True Romance’ – One of the Best-Written Genre Films Ever Made
Quentin Tarantino Spotlight Written by one-of-a-kind Quentin Tarantino (Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction) and directed by Tony Scott (Top Gun, Hunger, Crimson Tide), True Romance is...
‘Reservoir Dogs’ is Arguably Tarantino’s Best Film
What is there left to say about the first outing for director/ writer Quentin Tarantino?...
‘Kill Bill’ and the Five Styles of Fighting in Tarantino’s Kung Fu Opus
by Edgar Chaput
Quentin Tarantino Spotlight If Tarantino’s films of the 1990s announced the writer-director as a phenom for writing formidably snappy dialogue that enhanced characterization, his films...