Movie:the Hateful Eight

  • NewsKevin Polowy

    Role Recall: Bruce Dern on Killing John Wayne, Special Gifts From Tarantino, and More

    Famed director Elia Kazan used to say that no one was going to know who Bruce Dern was until he was in his 60s. Kazan — who instructed Dern at the Actor’s Studio and directed him in his film debut, Wild River (1960) — was wrong. But he was onto something.

  • NewsJordan Zakarin

    Shots Fired: Tarantino's Full 'Hateful Eight' Trailer Comes Out Guns Ablaze

    Quentin Tarantino the activist may have spent the last few weeks squabbling with police departments around the nation, but Quentin Tarantino the filmmaker has come out guns ablaze with the full trailer for The Hateful Eight. The Oscar-winner’s eighth full feature returns to the old west, the setting of his 2012 hit Django Unchained, and its plot — about a group of shifty strangers trapped in a room — shares story DNA with his directorial debut, Reservoir Dogs. They aren’t named — and who knows

  • NewsMeriah Doty

    'The Hateful Eight' Character Posters

    Like famished dogs, Quentin Tarantino fans are chowing down on every new detail from his upcoming Western 'The Hateful Eight,' including the character posters.

  • NewsJordan Zakarin

    Quentin Tarantino Didn't Like Critics of 'Django Unchained' Pointing Out That He's White

    Samuel L. Jackson and Quentin Tarantino in 2010 Quentin Tarantino still doesn’t care much about the criticism he received over the use of racial epithets in 2012’s Oscar-winning Django Unchained, but three years since its release, the 52-year-old writer-director is willing to admit that there were some elements of the backlash that stung him – particularly when it comes to the subject of race. “When the black critics came out with savage think pieces about Django, I couldn’t have cared less,”

  • NewsGwynne Watkins

    From Jennifer Lawrence to 'Scream,' Quentin Tarantino's Pop-Culture Likes and Dislikes

    Quentin Tarantino likes superhero movies, loves Jennifer Lawrence, hates True Detective, and refuses to watch streaming media. Of course, Tarantino himself has had a tremendous influence on pop culture, beginning with his hyper-violent 1992 feature debut Reservoir Dogs. Here is an alphabetical list of all the movies, TV shows, actors, and media that Tarantino loves and hates (this week, anyway).

  • NewsJordan Zakarin

    'The Hateful Eight' Trailer: Bullets Are About to Fly in Quentin Tarantino's New Western

    Quentin Tarantino spent most of his recent Comic-Con panel hyping the ultra-wide (and very rare) 65mm lenses he used for his new western, The Hateful Eight. The roster begins with Major Marquis Warren, a former US calvary leader played by Samuel L. Jackson. There, they encounter a mysterious Mexican named Bob (Demian Bichir), former Confederate general Sandy Smithers (Bruce Dern), the sketchy Joe Gage (Michael Madsen), and the wily Oswaldo Mobray (Tim Roth, channeling one of Tarantino’s greate

  • NewsJordan Zakarin

    'The Hateful Eight' Panel: Quentin Tarantino Shows Off His Violent New Western

    Tarantino geeked out over the huge panorama that the old lenses could provide, and explained that, despite having much of The Hateful Eight set in a single inside location, shooting in 65mm and projecting in 70mm would very much enhance the look of his film. The footage began on a barren snowscape, with the wind whipping frost and driving snow across a mountain valley.