Five years after she won the Best Actress Academy Award for Misery, Kathy Bates was back on the big screen in another Stephen King adaption: Dolores Claiborne. To be sure this moody, flashback-heavy tale—which takes place in Maine beneath the shadow of a solar eclipse, is less in-your-face (and on […]
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In a white wintry abyss, the sounds of Ennio Morricone‘s ominous score plays as a stagecoach slowly comes into view. Sitting square in the path of the horse drawn buggy upon a heap of dead bodies is Major Marquis Warren (Samuel L. Jackson) an ex-Union officer turned bounty hunter. He […]
The Wild West will be getting a whole lot wilder in Quentin Tarantino‘s upcoming thriller THE HATEFUL EIGHT. The first inglorious trailer for the movie gives us a visually striking and crackling dialogue filled introduction to QT’s rowdy rogues gallery of 18th century law abiders and breakers. Kurt Russell is […]
“He got your gun…your badge…and your teeth? You are a disgrace to the police force.” A film that I’ve been a fan of for a long time is MIAMI BLUES (1990). It’s based on a novel by the great author Charles Willeford (Cockfighter) and directed by George Armitage who got […]
Quentin Tarantino‘s upcoming western thriller THE HATEFUL EIGHT caused quite a ruckus even before it began filming – but that’s just making us anticipate it all the more. By now you probably know the basic premise of the story but in furious film geek fashion we’ve gone a bit further […]