Kill Bill (movie)

'Fast & Furious 6': Michelle Rodriguez, Gina Carano can kick your rear

2013-05-24 07:00:00

If Michelle Rodriguez and Gina Carano share a single regret, it's having not risked spinal injury together to film a key sequence for the thriller "Fast & Furious 6" last year. The action actresses get downright aw-shucks-y — wistful, even —...

'Django Unchained' pays homage to Wagner's 'Siegfried'

2013-04-18 06:00:00

When Los Angeles Opera presented its new production of Richard Wagner's "Siegfried" a few years ago at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, the packed house included the usual assortment of donors and local opera buffs. Nestled somewhere in the orchestra...

Classic Hollywood: Remembering Bruce Lee and martial arts films

2013-04-15 05:00:00

Forty years ago, the cinematic landscape was undergoing a seismic shift. Young Turk filmmakers such as George Lucas, Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola, William Friedkin and Terrence Malick were exploring unique and challenging themes. The black...

'Django Unchained' abruptly pulled from China theaters

2013-04-11 02:50:00

BEIJING -- Just a few minutes after the lights dimmed and the credits rolled, Chinese censors on Thursday yanked Quentin Tarantino's "Django Unchained" from cinemas around the country. A Shanghai cinema company posted to its official Weibo account...

Critic's Notebook: Movie violence must not be stopped

2013-02-15 08:00:00

I abhor violence. As a rookie police reporter years ago I saw the damage guns, knives, broken bottles, metal pipes, hands — humans — can inflict. From the terrifyingly premeditated to the unfortunately accidental, those images still have the...

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...

‘Borderlands 2’ survives on Pandora with a sense of humor

2012-09-17 21:02:33

‘Man with the Iron Fists’: Rapper RZA makes jump to film director

2012-11-01 08:22:40

Comic-Con 2012: Tarantino's 'Django Unchained' shocks, awes

2012-07-14 17:39:00

It had to be the most hirsute panel at Comic-Con International’s cavernous Hall H. Between Christoph Waltz’s wild long grey hair and beard,�Don Johnson’s shaggy ponytail and goatee, and Jamie Foxx’s long, unkempt facial hair, the...

Around Town: Edgar Wright shows his stuff and aliens attack

2011-12-08 16:36:30

Around Town: 'Battle Royale' finally gets U.S. theatrical release

2011-12-23 16:36:35

Michael Madsen arrest: Did son's pot smoking lead to fight?

2012-03-10 16:41:47

With a slash of an ear by a razor in his 1992 directorial debut, Quentin Tarantino announced that graphic violence would be a hallmark of his films.

2013-02-14 17:38:37

The Bride, played by Uma Thurman, in Quentin Tarantino's "Kill Bill" had a pretty tragic wedding day. Her co-workers in an assassination hit squad massacred members of her wedding party, shot her in the head, and took her yet unborn child. All ordered by the father of her child.

2013-02-13 18:04:00

in New York on Feb. 12. The actress is pregnant with her third child and first with boyfriend Arpad Busson.

2012-03-21 09:47:31