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Posts Tagged "Quentin Tarantino"

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Jackie Brown ***** (1997, Pam Grier, Robert De Niro, Bridget Fonda, Samuel L Jackson, Robert Forster, Michael Keaton) – Classic Movie Review 366

Writer-director Quentin Tarantino returned for his third movie in 1997 with the ultra-tense, pounding and highly impressive low-life crime thriller Jackie Brown, written for the screen by Tarantino and securely based on Elmore Leonard’s novel […]

Nov, 04

Kill Bill: Vol 2 **** (2004, Uma Thurman, David Carradine, Michael Madsen, Daryl Hannah) – Classic Movie Review 365

Okay, now it’s April 2004, but where were we eight months ago with Quentin Tarantino’s Kill Bill: Vol 1? Oh yeah, The Bride (Uma Thurman) has survived a massacre on her wedding day and is […]

Nov, 04

Kill Bill: Vol 1 **** (2003, Uma Thurman, David Carradine, Daryl Hannah, Lucy Liu, Vivica A Fox, Julie Dreyfus, Chiaki Kuriyama, Michael Parks) – Classic Movie Review 364

In 2003, Quentin Tarantino returned for his fourth film – or at least half of it, as it’s been chopped in two, with part two eventually released eight months later. Uma Thurman, Marsellus’s sexy, drug-addled wife […]

Nov, 04

Reservoir Dogs ***** (1992, Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth, Michael Madsen, Eddie Bunker, Quentin Tarantino, Steve Buscemi, Lawrence Tierney, Chris Penn) – Classic Film Review 361

‘Let’s go to work’ – Ad slogan. The 29-year-old Quentin Tarantino’s 1992 debut movie proved his spectacular breakthrough. With no holds barred, a new star writer-director, what the French call an auteur, was born. Reservoir Dogs is […]

Nov, 03

From Dusk Till Dawn **** (1996, Harvey Keitel, George Clooney, Quentin Tarantino, Juliette Lewis) – Classic Movie Review 142

Lustily made in 1996 by director Robert Rodriguez, with a typically vibrant screenplay by Quentin Tarantino, this highly popular cult horror thriller is a lot of good, disreputable fun, though it’s quite crudely done and very […]

Aug, 09

Django Unchained ***** (2012, Jamie Foxx, Christoph Waltz, Leonardo DiCaprio) – Movie Review

Gleefully borrowing old video-store ideas left right and centre, Quentin Tarantino extravagantly pays, er, homage to the spaghetti Western in his incredibly lusty, spectacular revenge saga of a strangely kindly German bounty hunter, an ex-dentist named […]

Jul, 08

Pulp Fiction ***** (1994, John Travolta, Uma Thurman, Samuel L Jackson, Bruce Willis) – Classic Movie Review 13

Often unbearably tense and frequently hilarious, Quentin Tarantino’s second film, following his greatly admired 1992 cult hit Reservoir Dogs, is still his masterpiece. Tarantino’s brilliantly inventive and exuberant direction of his ultra-smart, sadistically violent 1994 […]

Jul, 03

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