'Django Unchained'
Writer: Quentin Tarantino
Release Date: 18th January 2013
Hot Rating: 💥💥💥💥💥
In a process of cinematic time travel, Quentin Tarantino moves from the Nazi Germany of his previous period piece 'Inglorious Basterds' (2009) to the wild south of Plantation era America. Unlike the auteur's WWII flick, the narrative of 'Django' expands freely across a 150-minute-plus running time, telling of Django's (Jamie Foxx) search for redemption with the aid of an unlikely companion, Dr King Schultz (Christoph Waltz). Much like the blossoming friendship between these two characters, so does Tarantino strike a pitch-perfect balance between brutal violence and dark comedy. Of the latter, those criticising the film's use of humour are overlooking the satirical ink to which Tarantino confidently dips his directorial quill, for these scenes of wit accentuate the severity of the film's context. With a suitably diverse set of supporting roles, Tarantino masterfully pays homage to the spaghetti western, modernising its tropes for a politically aware, and stylishly hungry, audience.
'The Hateful Eight'
Writer: Quentin Tarantino
Release Date: 8th January 2016
Hot Rating: 💥💥💥
With Tarantino favouring America's dark history, the director chooses post-civil war Wyoming for the setting of his most recent film, a tale of a bounty hunter's (Kurt Russell) entrapment in a cabin with his dastardly prisoner, Daisy Domergue (Jennifer Jason Leigh). The ferocious chemistry between the two leads is electric throughout the exposition, to which the later introduction of supporting roles from the likes of Samuel L. Jackson (Major Marquis Warren) and Tim Roth (Oswaldo Mobray) stabilises the hectic action that continues throughout. Nonetheless, interruptions do ensue, to which Tarantino's treatment of death lacks the impactful rigour that he is renowned for. From this exasperating violence, Ennio Morricone's superb original score fails to supplement the sadistic intentions of our characters. In this soundtrack, to which begs for encompassing landscapes, the cabin setting starves the narrative of its creative potential and instead leaves audiences as claustrophobic as our eight wicked personas.
Writer: Quentin Tarantino
Release Date: 18th January 2013
Hot Rating: 💥💥💥💥💥
In a process of cinematic time travel, Quentin Tarantino moves from the Nazi Germany of his previous period piece 'Inglorious Basterds' (2009) to the wild south of Plantation era America. Unlike the auteur's WWII flick, the narrative of 'Django' expands freely across a 150-minute-plus running time, telling of Django's (Jamie Foxx) search for redemption with the aid of an unlikely companion, Dr King Schultz (Christoph Waltz). Much like the blossoming friendship between these two characters, so does Tarantino strike a pitch-perfect balance between brutal violence and dark comedy. Of the latter, those criticising the film's use of humour are overlooking the satirical ink to which Tarantino confidently dips his directorial quill, for these scenes of wit accentuate the severity of the film's context. With a suitably diverse set of supporting roles, Tarantino masterfully pays homage to the spaghetti western, modernising its tropes for a politically aware, and stylishly hungry, audience.
'The Hateful Eight'
Writer: Quentin Tarantino
Release Date: 8th January 2016
Hot Rating: 💥💥💥
With Tarantino favouring America's dark history, the director chooses post-civil war Wyoming for the setting of his most recent film, a tale of a bounty hunter's (Kurt Russell) entrapment in a cabin with his dastardly prisoner, Daisy Domergue (Jennifer Jason Leigh). The ferocious chemistry between the two leads is electric throughout the exposition, to which the later introduction of supporting roles from the likes of Samuel L. Jackson (Major Marquis Warren) and Tim Roth (Oswaldo Mobray) stabilises the hectic action that continues throughout. Nonetheless, interruptions do ensue, to which Tarantino's treatment of death lacks the impactful rigour that he is renowned for. From this exasperating violence, Ennio Morricone's superb original score fails to supplement the sadistic intentions of our characters. In this soundtrack, to which begs for encompassing landscapes, the cabin setting starves the narrative of its creative potential and instead leaves audiences as claustrophobic as our eight wicked personas.
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