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June 10, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

I Am Not Your Negro: DVD

I Am Not Your Negro Director: Raoul Peck Magnolia Home Entertainment What Raoul Peck achieves with I Am Not Your Negro is stunning – a manifesto for today (sadly) that was born forty+ years ago; that was born nearly 400 years ago…

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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 […]