Torture, Tipping and Context in ‘Reservoir Dogs’
Quentin Tarantino’s Reservoir Dogs opens with a now expected conversation piece — suited-up gangsters sit inside Johnnie’s Coffee Shop, yapping about thematic penises in “Like a…
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Va Va Vroom: Gender politics in ‘Death Proof’
Last week, IndieWire’s Matt Singer wrote a pretty swell piece on Death Proof, specifically that it doesn’t deserve its label as Quentin Tarantino’s “worst film”: At…
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The Golden Globes are sloppy, drunk, better than the Oscars
Shame on Ben Affleck! Good for Ben Affleck! Nope. I’m not gonna do it. I will not complain about the Hollywood Foreign Press Association…
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‘The Imposter’ digs deep, dirty
The Imposter is a successful, suspenseful documentary. But it’s also much more than that. Director Bart Layton presents a disturbing collision of two equally desperate parties:…
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