Inglourious Basterds (movie)

'Bates Motel' opens for business on A&E

2013-03-14 07:00:00

The big screen's most formidable mama's boy is coming to TV. Norman Bates, the deranged character of "Psycho" fame, is proving movie stars aren't the only ones hunkering down to the small screen — some of cinema's fictional personas are also...

Oscars 2013: An 'Argo' night at Academy Awards

2013-02-25 04:00:00

For the second straight year, the movie business fell for itself. "Argo" — in which a Hollywood producer and makeup artist help engineer the rescue of six Americans from Iran — won the top prize at the 85th Academy Awards, one year after the...

Oscars 2013: Ang Lee, Christoph Waltz among night's surprises

2013-02-25 08:45:00

Riding high on a late-inning surge of Oscar goodwill, "Life of Pi" director Ang Lee supplied one of Sunday night's most surprising outcomes: besting Steven Spielberg for director. Until just a few weeks ago — and with "Argo" director Ben Affleck...

Oscars 2013: Christoph Waltz wins best supporting actor

2013-02-24 18:00:00

Christoph Waltz won the supporting actor Oscar for "Django Unchained" in one of the tightest acting races at this year's Academy Awards on Sunday. The man who already had one Oscar on his mantel beat out four other veteran performers: Alan Arkin ("Argo"...

Oscars 2013: 'Argo' and 'Django Unchained' take screenplay honors

2013-02-24 20:30:00

"Django Unchained" won the original screenplay Oscar while "Argo" took adapted screenplay honors Sunday at the 85th Academy Awards at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood. "Argo," screenwriter Chris Terrio's dramatization of the rescue of six U.S. diplomats...

Oscar predictions 2013: We call the four acting races

2013-02-23 10:30:00

Gold Standard writer Glenn Whipp is sweeping through all 24 Oscar categories this week, assessing the races, predicting the winners and helping you prevail in your Oscar pools. Earlier he looked at the short films, sound categories, visual crafts races,...

PASSINGS: Leroy 'Sugarfoot' Bonner, Lloyd Phillips, Donald F. Hornig

2013-01-29 00:00:00

Leroy 'Sugarfoot' Bonner Lead singer and guitarist for Ohio Players Leroy "Sugarfoot" Bonner, 69, lead singer and guitarist for the Ohio Players, a band that fused rock, soul and funk for a string of R&B hits in the 1970s, died Saturday in a Dayton...

Weinstein Co. asks toymaker to discontinue 'Django' action figures

2013-01-18 12:42:00

Re-imagining the slave narrative should be left to the professionals. That was the word Friday when the Weinstein Co. announced that it has asked toymaker NECA to discontinue the "Django Unchained" action figure dolls after receiving complaints that the...

The Gold Standard: Bet a penny on Day-Lewis as Lincoln?

2013-01-30 14:12:00

"I am 10 years older than I was a year ago." We believe that's a line Abraham Lincoln said to Gen. Ulysses S. Grant at the end of "Lincoln." Or it could be something "Lincoln" lead Daniel Day-Lewis wearily muttered during one of the endless Q&As he's done...

Quentin Tarantino, the persnickety poet of 'Django Unchained'

2013-02-07 05:00:00

Here are some things you need to know about Quentin Tarantino. He pens his screenplays longhand, not on a word processor. "I can't write poetry on a computer, man," he says. If you're an actor, don't expect to improvise. Ever. "You hire an actor to...

Oscar 8-Ball: Quentin Tarantino's 'Django Unchained'

2012-12-17 14:00:00

Can a movie that New York Post film critic Lou Lumenick called "basically a three-hour homage to 'Blazing Saddles'" manage to pull in a few Oscar nominations? Time to check in with the Oscar 8-Ball, that magical portal into the minds and hearts and, in...

Diane Kruger, Rita Ora, Clemence Poesy at Chanel's beach

2013-01-22 18:04:00

At the Chanel show at the Grand Palais in Paris on Tuesday, Diane Kruger of “Inglourious Basterds” said she arrived at midnight the previous evening specifically to see the collection. A regular at the classic label’s haute couture...

He's only half Irish (the other half is German), but since he was raised in Killarney, Co. Kerry, Ireland we think the "Inglourious BasterdsX-Men: First Class" star merits inclusion.

2013-03-13 21:41:00

Christoph Waltz accepts his Oscar for supporting actor for his performance in "Django Unchained." It's his second Academy Award; he won in the same category for another Quentin Tarantino movie, "Inglourious Basterds." "We participated in a hero's journey -- the hero here being Quentin," Waltz said.

2013-02-24 18:12:46

R; 2:45 running time How much you enjoy the most vicious acts of violence will relate directly to your response to the vengeance fantasies in "Inglourious Basterds," Tarantino's previous film, a popular, nutty rewrite of World War II.

2012-12-24 10:28:00