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Ranking: Every Quentin Tarantino Movie from Worst to Best

However, the way the shot’s used as a prelude to a snake-like scene of double crossing is so pitch perfect and patiently Tarantino. This scene’s become the film’s calling card. That, and the line abou... read more

Mark L. Smith To Write Script For Quentin Tarantino Star Trek Film

Smith, best known for his script to The Revenant, will be tasked with fleshing out the story idea Quentin Tarantino ... When could we see a Tarantino Trek? Fleming also reports that Tarantino wants to ... read more

Claims of ‘Hateful Eight’ Misogyny ‘Fishing for Stupidity,’ Harvey Weinstein Says

I thought it was funny, but I didn’t ... Tarantino says he intended. “Violence is hanging over every one of those characters like a cloak of night,” he said. “So I’m not going to go, ‘OK, that’s the c... read more

The 100 Best Screenwriters of All Time

Born in Austria-Hungary (in a town that’s now part of Poland), he lost his mother and grandmother in the Holocaust and had no faith in the individual capacity for heroism. Those of his characters who ... read more

Five Favourite Films with Bill Nighy

It’s still one of the biggest crimes of Hollywood that they didn’t ... he had more humanity than most humans do. And he was just cool. And then I would put The Matrix. The first Matrix. Are there any ... read more

55 Thoughts for English Teachers

I didn’t avoid writing about teaching because I was ashamed of my profession ... I hesitate to call what follows “advice,” though it might seem as such. There are so many varied experiences during a s... read more

Local hike of the week: Eaton Canyon Falls

I say “would-be” because two weekends ago during the near-100 degree days ... as well as a less dangerous looking area where it appeared people had recently climbed. So sometime in the future you may ... read more

Here I go, driving away readership again

My kids liked them, and I read the first couple, but after the first, the rest just seemed like the same old story — didn’t I read this one before? Let me guess; he goes to school ... Harry wins) so a... read more

Celebrate Father’s Day with Horror’s Best and Worst Dads

Though flawed as a husband and a father, Rick’s always trying to do right by his family, even when he hits a few rough spots along the way. Carl may not be the ideal son, but readers of the comics and ... read more

Beyond the Golden Age: Film Noir Since the ’50s

To define noir strictly in terms of visual style leads the would-be historian into such fallacies as the statement that all true film noirs are ... Leave Her to Heaven didn’t need to be shot in black ... read more

The 100 Best Screenwriters of All Time

There’s a documentary featurette about Quentin Tarantino ... never had a movie I didn’t believe in,” Wes Anderson said in 2012, “and I’ve never had any sense before the movie opens how it might do.” B... read more

Best of the Millennium, Pros Versus Readers

Our readers have always loved Oscar, so that wasn’t a huge surprise ... Voters were also dying to include Bolaño’s The Savage Detectives. It was ineligible because it was published in Spanish in 1998, ... read more