Tom Jolliffe on the timeless work of the late, great Ennio Morricone… Alongside the visual imagery in a film, the accompanying music has an ability to work in perfect unison to boost the emotional impact of a sequence. Sometimes a score can enhance a scene, or the music overall can take a picture up a […]
A Beginner’s Guide to Quentin Tarantino
In our latest beginner’s guide, Tom Jolliffe looks back at the films of Quentin Tarantino… With the recent Cannes premiere of Quentin Tarantino’s latest magnus opus, I thought it high time that the latest directors beginners guide focused on the cinematic legend. An auteur of invigorating flair upon breaking in, with an unconventional approach to […]
Quentin Tarantino talks Hateful Eight miniseries, reveals Django Unchained director’s cut is coming
This week saw the Netflix release of an extended version of Quentin Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight, with the 2015 western broken up and re-edited into a four-episode miniseries, and speaking to Slash Film, Tarantino has revealed that he personally oversaw the creation of the miniseries cut, and has also created an extended director’s cut of […]
Netflix releases extended version of Quentin Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight as miniseries
If you’re a fan of Quentin Tarantino’s last film The Hateful Eight, and happen to be a Netflix subscriber, then we’ve some exciting news for you as the streaming service has released an extended version of the western as a four-episode miniseries. In total, the episodes run for a total of 210 minutes (including opening […]
What to expect with Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon A Time In Hollywood
Tom Jolliffe looks ahead to Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon A Time In Hollywood… There is no doubting that in the last (nearly) three decades, Quentin Tarantino has been one of the best film-makers around. His back catalogue is rich, varied and impressive. If you’re asking me for rankings, then his first two, Reservoir Dogs and […]
Why Ennio Morricone’s Oscar was this year’s most significant win
Sean Wilson assesses the veteran composer’s massively overdue Academy Awards success… So, the Oscars are all done for another year, the speeches have been tossed into the nearest recycling bin and the red carpet has been rolled away. Truth be told, does anybody really care? The Academy Awards, as win any awards ceremony, are utterly […]
7 badass tracks from Ennio Morricone’s The Hateful Eight score
Sean Wilson breaks down the Oscar nominated score for Quentin Tarantino’s blood-splattered epic… Proud recipient of an Oscar nomination and a Golden Globe, Ennio Morricone’s spine-tingling score for Quentin Tarantino’s Western opus The Hateful Eight is rich with a sense of menace and paranoia. Morricone’s first Western soundtrack in over 30 years is also the first commissioned […]
The Hateful Eight bombs in its second week
It faced stiff competition from Golden Globe winner and Oscar contender The Revenant as well as the box office giant Star Wars: The Force Awakens, but Quentin Tarantino’s latest film The Hateful Eight has fallen way below expectations. Now in its second week of nationwide release, The Hateful Eight has dropped a whopping 62% from […]
Details on the original ending of The Hateful Eight revealed
Quentin Tarantino’s latest film The Hateful Eight ends with a bombastic bloodbath that you would naturally expect from the auteur, but the finished product on film did differ from the original script and stage reading. Below are some cliffnotes on various changes as stated by a writer from Collider in attendance for that live reading […]
Jennifer Jason Leigh featurette for The Hateful Eight
A new featurette has arrived online for Quentin Tarantino’s new western The Hateful Eight focusing on Jennifer Jason Leigh’s Daisy Domergue. Check it out below after the official synopsis… SEE ALSO: Read our reviews of The Hateful Eight here and here In THE HATEFUL EIGHT, set six or eight or twelve years after the Civil War, […]
