Sad news but really good article (and the link to that wild interview was much appreciated.)

I liked that Tarantino was tying to celebrate Tate’s life, but I wish he had allowed the character to be more fully rounded. She likes to dance! And dance again! And again! The movie theater scene was very well acted and touching given Tate’s horrific real life fate, but I still have little idea who Tate was as a…

Ha!  I can only hope.

I know rom coms usually follow a certain pattern, so there’s not so much surprise where the story might be going, but that trailer gave away the entire plot. Weird choice. Charming cast, in any case.

Bruce Lee met Dracula in the 1977 movie “Deadly Hands of Kung Fu” (well, sorta.) io9 covered it in 2011...

Ah.  I didn’t hear that.  But does sound gross.

Really hoping Booksmart finds that huge audience on streaming sites. Definitely deserves it. Looking foward to seeing what that team does next.

Ha!

I thought Once Upon a Time in Hollywood was a mess, and QT can be exhausting in interviews, but the times I’ve seen him interact with fans/film students (happens in L.A.) he was surprisingly approachable and generous with his time and advice. So I find it hard to not to like the guy.

Great to know!  I’ll have to track down the 2005 version.  Thanks!

Really great article! A bit of a trivia, that the UK release and US release each has a song the other one does not (and a slightly different track order too). The US version has the Spiderbite Song, while in the UK they got Slow Motion...

Did that end up online anywhere?

My MacBook Pro’s available memory keeps going down and down, even though I’m not downloading anything. I run CleanMyMac or restart, and that helps, but anyone have any advice?

I’m surprised by the reaction, too. Some great scenes with no point made and nothing holding them together.  Still liked it more than Death Proof, which for me was his low point.

But in a film you can choose to have the protagonist beat the villains with less voilence and gore. Like tossing the dog food can was comedic, but bashing someone’s head into object after object shot to look real comes off as sadistic. It’s a storyelling choice. And Qunetin usually picks the more sadistic route (going…

I thought it was some odd play on Natalie Wood’s death. The wife’s name was even Natalie.

I couldn’t see Tate, as portrayed in the film, as a real person. She spends half her scenes just dancing to groovy ‘60s music. I still have no idea who she was.

She actually wrote a very well written review.  But also, if you’re not a fan, why not just skip her work?

This is true!

Well, I didn’t see it or the show so have no context other than what you posted. But yes, I could totally see it as the writers wanting to be shocking (and using black pain for that) rather than them making a point about the banality of evil (which is what it sounded like without the context).  If the former, that’s a…