Quentin Tarantino

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Tarantino has got a new film out! Well, not exactly a full-length feature but his contribution is the later part of a double feature (the first part is by director Robert Rodriguez ) called Grindhouse. Below is a review from The Observer.

'The first story by Rodriguez, Planet Terror, is not your typical zombie/nerve gas low-budget gore extravaganza. Despite all efforts to scratch the film, jump scenes and skip frames, the picture is too big and too good to be mistaken for a battered relic of the Seventies. What's more, the cast - Rose McGowan as go-go dancer Cherry, who attaches herself to a machinegun prosthesis, Freddie Rodriguez as Wray, her ex-boyfriend and the picture's tough guy, and Naveen Andrews as a scientist with a jar of testicles - are far too good to be mistaken for third tier stars of the past.

Tarantino's Death Proof, the second half of Grindhouse, follows three spectacular trailers by horror directors Eli Roth, Rob Zombie and Hot Fuzz's Edgar Wright, which involve, among other things, female Nazi werewolves, Fu Manchu (a scene-chomping Nicolas Cage) and a Thanksgiving dinner gone wrong.

Tarantino has something different in mind for his end of the film. While Death Proof is meant to evoke car-chase movies such as Vanishing Point (1971), it's really Tarantino's latest effort to write lengthy dialogue scenes for women, of which there are many - some decent, others embarrassing.

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Grindhouse is an affectionate, often hilarious homage to movies that kids like Rodriguez and Tarantino saw in drive-ins or funky local theatres where the seats were broken, the screens scarred, and the floors sticky with fizzy drinks.'

Well, I'm certainly a fan of Tarantino. I love his 'trashy' homage like Kill Bill 1&2 most of all (thought Pulp Fiction a bit over-rated). Hope to catch this fun film later in the cinema.