A career slump is often impossible to escape from but sometimes, just sometimes, a performer gets a shot and delivers a comeback performance that puts them back in the spotlight… Hollywood is a fickle place. One minute you can be hot and the next not. Whether it’s a run-of-flops or the wrong kind of infamy, […]
How Will Quentin Tarantino Bow Out?
After scrapping his planned final film The Movie Critic, Quentin Tarantino needs a new project for his tenth and final film… Quentin Tarantino needs no introduction. To even casual moviegoers, his name carries the kind of weight that few directors have managed in modern cinema. Whether you think he’s a cinematic deity, or vastly overrated, […]
The Good and Bad of Indulged Filmmakers
Some filmmakers get full autonomy. Sometimes this is good. Sometimes, not so much… When you hit a level of success in filmmaking as a director (or occasionally a producing star actor) you find that studios increasingly bend over backwards to your every whim. This can even be to the point of risky ventures with huge […]
Quentin Tarantino hints at retiring to avoid a “f*cking lousy” last movie
Quentin Tarantino has made no secret of the fact that he believes he’s in the latter stages of his career, with the filmmaker suggesting on numerous occasions that he sees himself retiring from directing after reaching ten movies. With Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Tarantino has now reached nine… and it seems he’s giving […]
Dakota Fanning recalls her experience of shooting Once Upon a Time in Hollywood with Quentin Tarantino
Dakota Fanning has discussed her experience of working with director Quentin Tarantino on 2019’s Oscar-winning film, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. In a recent interview with Collider, Dakota Fanning, who played Manson Family member Squeaky Fromme, detailed her experience of working on Tarantino’s latest feature film and how making the movie reminded her of […]
Al Pacino at 80: One of the all time greats
Tom Jolliffe looks back at the career of Al Pacino as he turns 80… Ready your best Al Pacino impression. We’ve all got them. Those usually tend to be Al at his explosive, unrestrained best. Maybe it’s one of several scenes in Heat, or something in his scenery chomping brilliance in Scent of A Woman. […]
Quentin Tarantino explains what happens to Rick Dalton after Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
The last we saw of Leonardo DiCaprio’s Rick Dalton in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, things were looking up for the fading star. Having fended off an attack from the Manson Family, Rick finds himself invited into the home of his neighbour Sharon Tate (Margot Robbie), presumably scoring himself a contact with her husband, […]
Quentin Tarantino plans to direct Once Upon a Time in Hollywood spinoff series Bounty Law
Back in July, Quentin Tarantino revealed that during development on Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, he’d written five scripts for Bounty Law, the faux Western TV show starring Leonardo DiCaprio’s Rick Dalton as Jake Cahill, and now the filmmaker has revealed to Deadline that he intends on shooting the episodes as its own TV […]
Quentin Tarantino teases release of 4-hour cut of Once Upon a Time In Hollywood
After inserting an additional ten minutes into the film for a re-release this past October, Quentin Tarantino has now confirmed to Collider that the rumoured four-hour cut of Once Upon a Time In Hollywood does indeed exist, and the extended version may well see the light of day “in a year’s time”. “It’s all good,” […]
2019 in Review: Revisiting cinema’s biggest releases, news and talking points
Tom Jolliffe looks back at 2019 in film… Whilst we all come to terms with deleting and retyping 19 as 20 on documents, letters, invoices etc, lets make time to look back at 2019 and further confuse matters. As a year of cinema, 2019 has been interesting and with a usual mix of pop culture […]
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