Django Unchained

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September 17, 2021 by Simon Sweetman

Ranking Quentin: Tarantino Worst to Best

10. Inglourious Basterds – from the stupid spelling to the crawling length of it, this film lost me on impact. A shame, because the first 25 minutes is about the best thing Tarantino has ever shot. The angles, the tension, the set-up – all, erm, ‘glourious’. After that, nah. I just got so bored. Great […]

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February 28, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Scoring The Quentin Tarantino Movie Soundtracks: The Music That Characterises His Films, Plays Characters In His Films

Quentin Tarantino uses music to set the scene, he uses it to evoke, to create a mood, to pay tribute to other movies (often this is secondary to setting/mood) and to help motivate the characters in his films. He uses music as a character in his films; the soundtrack becomes a character – in the […]

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January 25, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

The Hateful Eight: Film

The Hateful Eight Director: Quentin Tarantino FilmColony/The Weinstein Company Where the last two Tarantino films have left me cold – Django almost worked, but it was too long and had no real point despite claiming it might – The Hateful Eight lingers; heck it might actually be the best QT film of all. Like Jackie […]

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June 22, 2013 by Simon Sweetman

Django Unchained: DVD

Django Unchained Director: Quentin Tarantino Starz/Anchor Bay Quentin Tarantino films create – and then exist in – their own world. It is a remarkable skill he has, all the borrowings, the petulant pastiche, the obvious nudge-wink silliness; there are so many hallmarks of his style, the obvious being the peppy dialogue and hipper-than-hip/kitsch-gets-all-dressed-up-good-and-nice-ya-hear soundtrack but […]