3 d. ago 'Masterpiece' film hailed 'best ever made' is leaving Netflix soon

Steven Spielberg's iconic film departs Netflix on January 2, with Quentin Tarantino having hailed it as the best movie ever

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9 d. ago 'Masterful' 90s thriller that 'doesn't get enough praise' now on Prime

A Quentin Tarantino crime film starring Pam Grier is currently streaming on Prime Video, with fans claiming the 1997 thriller is superior to his cult classic Pulp Fiction

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2 w. ago The magical life of Toni Basil: how she taught Elvis, enchanted Bowie

The woman Quentin Tarantino called ‘the goddess of go-go’ is one of the most connected and accomplished in Hollywood. At 82, she recalls working with Tina Turner, Bette Midler, Frank Sinatra, David Byrne, Margot Robbie, Leonardo DiCaprio - the list goes on - and the time Bing Crosby made a pass at herIf your knowledge of Toni Basil begins and ends with her cheerleader-chanting smash hit Mickey, that’s just the tip of a very deep iceberg. By the time Mickey topped the US charts 43 years ago this week, in 1982, Basil had already spent four decades in the entertainment industry. The deeper you go, the more places you realise she was. When Elvis Presley sings “See the girl with the red dress on” in his 1964 movie Viva Las Vegas, and points across the dancefloor, the gyrating girl in the red dress is Basil. When Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper take LSD at the end of Easy Rider with two sex workers, one of them is Basil. When dance troupe the Lockers show case their pre-hip-hop street dance...

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2 w. ago The magical life of Toni Basil: how she taught Elvis, enchanted Bowie – and had a smash hit with ‘Mickey’

The woman Quentin Tarantino called ‘the goddess of go-go’ is one of the most connected and accomplished in Hollywood. At 82, she recalls working with Tina Turner, Bette Midler, Frank Sinatra, David Byrne, Margot Robbie, Leonardo DiCaprio - the list goes on - and the time Bing Crosby made a pass at herIf your knowledge of Toni Basil begins and ends with her cheerleader-chanting smash hit Mickey, that’s just the tip of a very deep iceberg. By the time Mickey topped the US charts 43 years ago this week, in 1982, Basil had already spent four decades in the entertainment industry. The deeper you go, the more places you realise she was. When Elvis Presley sings “See the girl with the red dress on” in his 1964 movie Viva Las Vegas, and points across the dancefloor, the gyrating girl in the red dress is Basil. When Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper take LSD at the end of Easy Rider with two sex workers, one of them is Basil. When dance troupe the Lockers show case their pre-hip-hop street dance...

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2 w. ago World Darts Championship Day 5 order of play: Full Monday schedule and start times as Wright and Menzies begin campaigns

Full Monday schedule and start times as Scots pair Peter Wright and Cameron Menzies enter the stage at the Alexandra Palace

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2 w. ago Peter Greene dead at 60: Pulp Fiction star found deceased inside his NYC apartment

Peter Greene - known for his roles in Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction and The Mask -- has died at the age of 60.

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3 w. ago Ryan Reynolds recruits Matthew Lillard for new advert after Quentin Tarantino’s disparaging remarks

The ‘Pulp Fiction’ creator said recently that he ‘doesn’t care’ for the ‘Scooby-Doo’ star

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3 w. ago Never be honest in Hollywood – even if you’re Quentin Tarantino | Dave Schilling

Success doesn’t mean you can speak your mind – and criticizing Paul Dano is like kicking a bunny at a birthday partyThere are many things Hollywood is known for: lavish parties, subtle (or not so subtle) plastic surgery, the concept of juice as a meal. What it is not traditionally known for is honesty. I live in Los Angeles, work in the entertainment industry when I’m not moonlighting as a semi-reputable journalist and have done my fair share of lying or, more accurately, omitting the truth. One of the least pleasant experiences in town is being asked to give honest feedback to someone who is at best an acquaintance. It’s worse yet if that person is a friend, lover or family member who actually takes your opinion seriously. Overall, the notion of offering honesty to a peer is akin to rubbing poison oak on your privates.And yet, despite knowing how gruesome this can be, I still solicit feedback on scripts, films and even nascent ideas I’m toying with. Naturally, I feel guilty doing i...

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3 w. ago A stiff dose of ‘weak sauce’: Paul Dano’s best films – ranked!

After Quentin Tarantino’s unfavourable comments about the actor’s performance in films including There Will Be Blood, we run through the roles that show just how potent he really isThis disquieting narrative debut from the British director James Marsh (The Theory of Everything) is a kind of minor Cape Fear. Gael García Bernal plays a sociopathic outsider threatening the apparently perfect life of his long-lost preacher father (William Hurt). In what now looks like a dry run for There Will Be Blood, Dano is the earnest son campaigning for creationism to be taught at school, and sideswiped by the emergence of his sinister half-brother. Variety labelled the film “noxious”. It’s undoubtedly nasty, but Dano helps to lend it a pulse. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Quentin Tarantino torched by The Office star after director's ruthless attacks on Hollywood actors

Quentin Tarantino is under fire after The Office star Zach Woods unleashed a blistering public takedown of the famed director. The scathing critique came after Tarantino attacked several Hollywood actors.

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3 w. ago Quentin Tarantino needs to stop criticising films and start making them again | Peter Bradshaw

Trolling wokesters, disparaging Paul Thomas Anderson, insulting Paul Dano the controversial director plays to type with his list of the top 20 best films of the 21st centuryDid Quentin Tarantino just put Paul Dano into the alpha league of the world’s most loved and admired movie actors?His recent insults aimed at Dano counterprovoked a flood of defensive praise, with Daniel Day-Lewis, Dano’s costar in There Will Be Blood, publicly endorsing it. But was Tarantino’s pronouncement just bluster and flex? Will he end up casting Dano in his next film – a turnaround like Donald Trump making nice with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un after pretty much threatening him with nuclear war? Or are we witnessing a kind of midlife emotional crisis in the heart of one of the most brilliant directors of his generation? I speak as a superfan with reservations. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Russell Crowe says makers of Gladiator II did not ‘understand what made the first one special’

The actor has criticised the creative team behind the sequel to Ridley Scott’s 2000 epic, saying it lacked the moral core that defined the original Oscar-winning filmRussell Crowe has said that the makers of Gladiator II did not “understand what made that first one special”.In interview excerpts posted on social media by Australian radio station Triple J, Crowe said that the Gladiator sequel, which starred Paul Mescal and was released in 2024, was let down by “the people in that engine room not actually understanding what made that first one special”. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Russell Crowe shares honest assessment of why Gladiator 2 failed to live up to original

Crowe starred in Ridley Scott’s original 2000 action film, alongside Joaquin Phoenix

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3 w. ago Paul Dano books next acting role after director Quentin Tarantino bashed him in shock criticism

Paul Dano has proved that the latest attacks against him from filmmaker Quentin Tarantino haven't dimmed his career at all.

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3 w. ago What actors does Quentin Tarantino actually like? Famed director has heaped praise on some thespians before slamming 'weak and uninteresting' Paul Dano

The 62-year-old iconic director has recently courted controversy after naming three actors he cannot stand but has previously been complimentary toward some thespians.

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3 w. ago Scream star Matthew Lillard demolishes Quentin Tarantino for his list of worst actors: 'He wouldn't say that to Tom Cruise!'

While he admitted the comments from the Oscar-winning filmmaker were a stinging rebuke, Lillard suggested Tarantino was taking cheap pot shots at actors who couldn't fight back.

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3 w. ago Matthew Lillard admits ‘feelings were hurt’ by Quentin Tarantino’s disparaging remarks

‘Five Nights at Freddy’s’ star was called out by the ‘Kill Bill’ director along with Paul Dano and Owen Wilson

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3 w. ago Matthew Lillard admits ‘feelings hurt’ by Quentin Tarantino’s disparaging remarks

‘Five Nights at Freddy’s’ star was called out by the ‘Kill Bill’ director along with Paul Dano and Owen Wilson

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4 w. ago Timothee Chalamet ranks favorite actors after Quentin Tarantino slates the stars he cannot stand

Tarantino, 62, gained widespread attention for praising the 2007 drama There Will Be Blood while slamming one of its principals Paul Dano as 'uninteresting' and 'weak sauce.'

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4 w. ago Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair – what does the new Tarantino cut offer?

The director’s two-part revenge saga has now been released as one mammoth movie with tweaks and additions here and thereQuentin Tarantino and his epic revenge saga Kill Bill had, as the vengeful lead character in the movie keeps saying, unfinished business. Actually, Tarantino mostly finished the business of re-integrating two volumes of Kill Bill into a single feature as early as 2006, just a couple of years after the release of Kill Bill: Vol 2. But while that version played at Cannes and had a few more recent runs at Tarantino-owned theaters in Los Angeles, it never reached home video (though some bootlegs attempted to recreate it) or a wide theatrical release. That’s all changed with this weekend’s debut of Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair, a four-and-a-half-hour version of the movie hitting over 1,000 screens across North America.Tarantino made long movies before and after Kill Bill; features that run over two-and-a-half hours make up the vast majority of his filmography. But...

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