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Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD (Quentin Tarantino) There is an easygoing nature to the way the story unfolds over the course of its first two hours (total run time 2hr 39min) before leading up to the hot, fateful night in August 1969. This is Tarantino’s love letter to the Los Angeles of his childhood and the industry that he embodies. The movie is mostly atmospheric, full of reconstructed nostalgia, like old TV shows, Manix and FBI which were the appointment TV of the time. If these had been the TV shows I grew up with, I would NEVER have become a TV junky; they looked horribly boring and gritty.…
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A Revlock Review: THE HATEFUL EIGHT
Tarantino’s greatest strength remains his dialogue. Although the historical setting means no pithy dissections of Madonna or McDonald’s, it’s impressive how he can muster so much tension from ruminative, ornate conversations. His dialogue possesses a pleasing deliberateness that harkens back to the golden age of cinema and reveals by contrast the absence of wit in most modern films...
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Candyland White Cake Showdown: DJANGO UNCHAINED
by Le Anne Lindsay, Editor I always say I would have enjoyed the Antebellum South were it not for the total degradation, abomination and heinous practice of slavery. However, I like to imagine taking color and race out of the equation and instead put in robots or an alien race who truly live to serve. Then, I couldpicture myself with a pretty sweet life of sipping mint juleps on a colonnade porch, attending balls in fancy gowns, sleeping in the afternoon heat and entertaining suitors in the parlor. Writer/Director Quentin Tarantino likes to rewrite history, imagining some kick ass retribution that levels the playing field. First annihilating the Nazi’s in…
