Highly influential, passionately inspired, and awfully long-winded, Quentin Tarantino has amassed a filmography that is soaked in self-indulgence. He’s made some great movies regardless, but I find myself now exhausted by his work, even if at times I’m thrilled and engaged. The experience of watching a Tarantino movie tends to be a scattered one, pieces…
Pat (Bradley Cooper) does not handle stress in a manner acceptable to society. When he unexpectedly comes home from work and discovers his wife in the shower with a co-worker, he beats the guy almost to death. His plea agreement with the courts sends him to a mental institution where they determine him to have…
The second trailer for Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained is here and it is better than the previous trailer released by Columbia Pictures in June. The reason for that is because Leonardo DiCaprio has extended screen time and his role as plantation owner Calvin Candie is great. Same can be said about Samuel L. Jackson in…
Pat Solatano has hit rock bottom. He lives with his parents, he’s divorced and been institutionalized. But tomorrow is a new day and it may very well be better than yesterday. In the new movie Silver Linings Playbook things do get better for Pat, thanks in part to Tiffany, a young woman with her own…
Quentin Tarantino is damn good at revitalizing lost movie genres (“Death Proof,” “Kill Bill”) so it should come as no surprise, with Django Unchained, he’s turned his eyes to the spaghetti western. In it, the titular character Django teams up with a bounty hunter to bring to justice the outlaw Brittle brothers and to exact…
Wow. Another comic book . . . err, I mean graphic novel to movie adaptation. Which one am I talking about now? Sin City of course. An obscure graphic novel by the man who single-handedly made Batman cool again — Frank Miller. Although, most of the latest comics to movies have sucked ass (see “Elektra,”…
