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Django Unchained (2012)

Posted on July 7, 2013 by rorydean

“Django” ends up being textbook Tarantino theatrics, hardly more than his usual penchant for bedraggled morality tales, the sort of bop-prosody that fans soak up in cotton ball doses while others take away in granular appreciation. Continue reading →

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Kill Bill V.1 (2003)

Posted on October 17, 2007 by rorydean

Ultra-violent, genre bending, stylized hipster flick as told by Quentin Tarrantino with help from Uma Thurman, David Carradine, Daryl Hannah, Lucy Liu, Vivica A. Fox, and Michael Madsen. Watch it or don’t watch it. Once is enough for me. Continue reading →