Oscar-winning filmmaker Quentin Tarantino has publicly expressed his desire to only direct ten films during his career over the past few years and if he sticks to his decision, he would only have one movie left before he walks away from the director’s chair. Following the release of 2019 hit Once Upon a Time in […]
The Greatest Director of All Time?
Tom Jolliffe ponders the question: who is the greatest director of all time? One of the toughest of tough film related questions. Who is the greatest director ever? Think over all the icons throughout history. There have been countless, many who crossed from silent to sound, such as Fritz Lang, Carl Theodore Dreyer, D.W Griffith […]
The Films Quentin Tarantino Wrote But Didn’t Direct
Neil Calloway on films Quentin Tarantino scripted but didn’t get behind the camera for… Everyone knows Quentin Tarantino went from geeky video store clerk to geeky film director, but he didn’t just explode onto the scene with Reservoir Dogs (which, and this has been airbrushed out of history now, he developed at the Sundance Institute) […]
Quentin Tarantino reflects on the box office failure of Grindhouse
Back in 2007, Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez took their love of exploitation movies to the next level by collaborating on Grindhouse, a double-bill featuring Tarantino’s Death Proof and Rodriguez’s Planet Terror complete with faux trailers by some of their filmmaking pals including Edgar Wright, Eli Roth and Rob Zombie. Ultimately, the double feature failed […]
Quentin Tarantino wanted to make a Luke Cage movie after Reservoir Dogs but his friends talked him out of it
Way before the whole Marvel Cinematic Universe began and Netflix acquired the rights to The Defenders, director Quentin Tarantino had an idea for a Luke Cage movie featuring a beloved actor and has revealed why the project never came to fruition. In a recent episode of Amy Schumer’s Podcast 3 Girls, 1 Keith, Tarantino revealed that the idea for […]
The Joys of Old School Practical Effects
Tom Jolliffe looks at the use of old school effects and filming techniques and whether they still have a place in the CGI age… Computers are a wonderful thing. The computer generated image has take cinema up to a point where almost limitless creative possibilities are at a film-makers disposable. You can create a whole […]
Great Directors and Their Forgotten Gems
Tom Jolliffe looks at the forgotten gems that most great directors have… If you think of many great directors you cast your mind to their career highlights. Those iconic films. Many of these directors become largely defined by one or two films in particular (sometimes more). Additionally occasionally you might also remember those films that […]
Simon Pegg explains why the Star Trek movie franchise has stalled
It’s closing in on four years since we last saw the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise on the big screen in Star Trek Beyond, and while there’s been plenty of talk of instalment (see projects from S.J. Clarkson, Quentin Tarantino, and most recently Noah Hawley), so far there’s been no official word from Paramount Pictures regarding […]
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 says a “war for movies” is playing out between original cinema and blockbuster franchises
Legendary director Quentin Tarantino says he is in a “war for movies” against Avengers: Endgame and Star Wars. 2019 saw a number of massive blockbusters draw big numbers at the box office, including the likes of Avengers: Endgame and Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker. There were also a number of non-franchise movies like Tarantino’s […]
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