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The 9th film from writer-director Quentin Tarantino has arrived and Once Upon A Time In… Hollywood is a cinematic experience, unlike anything audiences, have ever witnessed before. It is Tarantino’s love letter to the film industry and to a unique time in Hollywood’s collected memory and it takes cinemagoers for one crazy and original ride. […]

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The Tarantino Countdown – ‘Django Unchained’

August 9, 2019 Samuel Hames

If Quentin Tarantino has a favourite genre then it’s undoubtedly the western. This noted writer-director has long praised the creative trappings of the genre and through the years the sensibilities of his favourite movie setting have found their way into his other films. 20 years and six films later the director would finally treat his […]

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The tension builds in first teaser for Sam Mendes’ ‘1917’

August 4, 2019 Samuel Hames

Following his work on the big budget James Bond blockbusters Skyfall and Spectre, noted director Sam Mendes is turning his attention to the mud and blood of World War I with an intense new film of brotherhood and sacrifice in 1917. Watch the tension filled new teaser trailer below: Here’s the full synopsis. Sam Mendes, […]

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The Tarantino Countdown – ‘Inglorious Basterds’

August 2, 2019 Samuel Hames

After the release of Grindhouse, Quentin Tarantino was looking to change things around and turn things up. The resulting sixth picture from the master director was Inglorious Basterds, a full-on, gung-ho war movie that completely flipped the genre on its head and made for one hell of a compelling watch. In Nazi-occupied France during World […]

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‘Fast & Furious: Hobbs & Shaw’ – Review

August 1, 2019 Samuel Hames

If there’s a film that qualifies to be the biggest blockbuster of the year then it is undoubtedly Fast & Furious: Hobbs & Shaw! This enormous action event starring Dwayne Johnson and Jason Statham is loaded to the brim with awe-inspiring visuals and it cranks up the adrenaline!! Ever since hulking lawman Hobbs (Johnson), a […]

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Quentin Tarantino presents one-of-a-kind film series

July 29, 2019 Samuel Hames

The buzz keeps building for director Quentin Tarantino’s ninth feature film, Once Upon A Time In Hollywood and everyone is pumped for the amazing visuals, pop culture nostalgia and rocking soundtrack that the director will bring to the big screen with this one. To get audiences ready for the cinematic event that is Once Upon […]

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The Tarantino Countdown – ‘Death Proof’

July 26, 2019 Samuel Hames

Quentin Tarantino has been very vocal of his love and support for exploitation grindhouse cinema and this in-your-face way of filmmaking has been an integral part of his directing style since the very beginning. With his fifth film, Death Proof, he would commit to the genre and narrative of this very particular type of film […]

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Five films to watch before you see ‘Once Upon A Time In Hollywood’

July 25, 2019 Samuel Hames

We’re nearing the release of Quentin Tarantino’s much anticipated Once Upon A Time In Hollywood, and this film is promising all kinds of excitement for film fans. With it’s 1969 setting, and all the glitz and glam that comes with that we’ve selected five films that you need to watch before you see Once Upon […]

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The Tarantino Countdown – ‘Kill Bill Volume 2’

July 22, 2019 Samuel Hames

In Kill Bill Volume 1 director Quentin Tarantino presented audiences with a wildly original and completely crazy exploitational revenge film that introduced them to Uma Thurman’s vengeance crazed assassin The Bride. And the resulting film had them hooked! But when the carnage ended with Kill Bill Volume 1 The Bride’s story was not over yet, […]

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The Tarantino Countdown – ‘Kill Bill Volume 1’

July 19, 2019 Samuel Hames

When it comes to filmmaking style, director Quentin Tarantino possess a flair that is all his own, and in his epic martial arts, action, exploitation, grindhouse, revenge film Kill Bill, the director truly stepped it up a notch and crafted what I believe is his most stylistic film to date. After awakening from a four-year […]

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