Quentin Tarantino – The Film Ramble

Review: Once Upon A Time… In Hollywood

October 1, 2019Posted in Film, ReviewTagged Brad Pitt, Leonardo DiCaprio, Once Upon a Time, Quentin Tarantino1 Comment

And then there were nine. With only one more film to come from Quentin Tarantino, the scarcity of these seems to only add to the sacrilege that his films provide. Number nine provides a homage to seventies Hollywood, a lost world of Western films.

Rick Dalton (Leonardo Di Caprio) is a has been actor. On the last whim of his career, Dalton is only getting through bit parts drinking his life away thinking back to pastures old. Meanwhile, Cliff Booth (Brad Pitt) is Rick’s stunt double and is also struggling to find work, but is mainly doing odd jobs for his closest friend.

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Twenty Eight Films of Summer

September 6, 2019Posted in Film, Look BackTagged Animation, Anime, Batman, Beyonce, Bollywood, Bradley Cooper, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Chris Pratt, Christian Bale, Christopher Nolan, Citizen Kane, Coen Brothers, Cold War, Cuba Gooding Jr., Danny Boyle, Di Caprio, Donald Glover, Fargo, Foreign Film, Frances McDormand, Green Book, Guardians, Guillemo Del Toro, Inception, Jack Nicholson, John Oliver, John Travolta, Liam Neeson, Lion King, Mahershala Ali, Marvel, Masaan, Matrix, Michael Shannon, Moon, Octavia Spencer, One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest, Orson Wells, Pavel Pawolski, Pulp Fiction, Quentin Tarantino, Regina King, Sally Hawkins, Sam Rockwell, Samuel L. Jackson, Shape of Water, Space Movie, Spiderman into the Spiderverse, Spirited Away, Studio Ghibli, Superhero, The Guilty, Tsotsi, Uma Thurman, Viggo Mortensen, William Macy, YesterdayLeave a comment

While the summer months should be spent outside enjoying the sun and getting a tan, others like watching movies. Anyhow, here is a brief review and ranking of all of the films I have watched this summer. It’s worth noting that such a variety of films are difficult to compare, so this is a blunt instrument. On a different day, they would’ve been ranked differently. Also, most of the films I watched were of high calibre and I’d have no trouble recommending at least the top 20 of them. If your favourite film isn’t near the top of the list, that’s more to the testament of the other films that anything against yours. There are some early summer films that I didn’t add to the list as I only started it in Mid June/ Early July (Sorry Toy Story 4) and some Summer Films I haven’t yet seen (Sorry OUATIH).

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Review: Pulp Fiction

August 12, 2019August 12, 2019Posted in Film, ReviewTagged Amanda Plummer, Bruce Willis, John Travolta, Quentin Tarantino, Samuel L. Jackson, Tim Roth, Uma Thurman1 Comment

While I discuss the outline of this film, I don’t give away any pivotal spoilers. But come on… this film has been out for a while.

Usually, when I go to the cinema to see a re-run of an old film, it’s no more than 30% full, therefore it really shows the staying power that in my screening of Pulp Fiction, over 80% of the seats were taken (I should have booked earlier and gotten better seats). So what is it that draws so many people to a 25 year old film on a Summer Wednesday evening in Portsmouth?

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