Quentin Tarantino, as did friends, family and colleagues, suffered a great loss with the passing away of Sally Menke. She had been more than his editor on all his movies, she had been his right hand, and many wondered who would be able to succeed her in this role as the editor. Judging from IMDB and New York Times listings, Quentin might have found this successor in Fred Raskin (imdb), who had previously worked …

This came completely out of nowhere. The fan world has been waiting years for this announcement, and it comes in the form of an updated calendar at the New Beverly Cinema’s website. The LA movie theater, which is most likely one of the best movie theaters in the world, is a regular geek fest, and the must-go-to location for any serious cineast. Back in 2007, as AICN reminds us, Quentin Tarantino brought an avalanche …

Recently, I’ve come to realize that unless I post a tiny news entry about everything that comes into my inbox, I end up with posts like this one. But I can’t help it, a blog isn’t a Twitter feed. Check out this article where Tarantino talks about violence (article), this one where he wants to be like Howard Hawks (article), or this one where he talks about Vinnie Jones who is with Celebrity Big …

That’s a bingo! Ladies and gents, the year is coming to an end faster than some poor Nazi that you would put in front of the Bear Jew. It’s December dear readers and as if Inglourious Basterds only came out yesterday, there’s tons of shit to check out. I’ll run through the goodies with you really quick to get to the main topic of today’s discussion, which is the release of that movie on …

Just when I tried to calm things down in me previous post, which some might’ve considered as some sort of a rant against those Kill Bill Vol3 stories, more “new Tarantino movie” rumors are popping up. By way of our friend Rama at Rama’s Screen (a movie blog you can’t not read daily!), we heard that Quentin mentioned to Variety, that whatever he does between now and Kill Bill Volume 3 (if he does …

You’ve probably read them. They’re everywhere. Headlines like “Get ready for Kill Bill Vol.3″ or “Tarantino confirms Vol.3″ etc. Why a I not running this story that way? Because it’s a non story. And I’ll tell you why. For one, Quentin Tarantino has given the exact same comments when asked about Volume 3 he has given years ago. So no change there. Second, it’s a slow-news phase, so blogs will jump on anything non-Basterds …

While the majority of Tarantino fans are probably waiting for Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair to hit DVD shelves this August for synergy effects related to the theatrical release of Inglourious Basterds, it seems like that fortune is reserved for Grindhouse. Press releases seem to indicate, according to BD News, that Genius Products, the WeinsteinCo’s home video distribution arm, is set to release Grindhouse on a 2-disc BluRay set on August 11. No …

Not all hope is lost my friends. After Quentin Tarantino revealed his top 20 favorites both in the Spaghetti Western and in the grindhouse genre (“That grindhouse list made me start coming up with mine! But it’s a good list…there’s a lot of films that … are on here.”  he said), I started asking some long nagging questions. I felt as the ambassador of the fan community, I should ask what is going on …

A couple of days after we reported that Ennio Morricone is in talks to score Inglourious Basterds, Variety now posts some quotes by ‘il maestro’ about the deal. They quote the master saying that “[Tarantino] has to deliver it by the end of April in time for Cannes [which] doesn’t leave me enough time to do the music. Either I start working on it before he stops shooting — after we discuss it together …

Yes, we’re still kicking. It’s been a bit slow because yours truly just moved to a new city, and lack of a decent broadband connection has kept me from updating regularily. But here’s something to wrap your head around: We can confirm that Julie “Sofie Fatale” Dreyfus will in fact play the character Francesca Mondino in Inglorious Basterds, not Anne-Sophie Frank as previously reported. This will of course be Julie’s second adventure with Quentin …

Empire Magazine‘s latest list termed “500 Greatest Movies of All Time” might be remotely democratic (it is based on a survey), yet it is utterly bizarre if you take the time and flick through the pages to see what movies ranked where. Here’s how Q’s movies did in this bizarrest of bizarre lists: The Bride’s revenge part two, Kill Bill: Volume 2 ranks 423rd; Oliver Stone‘s media satire based on Tarantino’s story, Natural Born …

Just a short heads up for you home video lovers out there. Sad news first: the announced German DVD of Grindhouse has been postponed until 2009, indicating a possible simultaneous worldwide release instead. Hardcore fans will thus have to stick with the overpriced Japanese box with the inferior transfer. I also got the Swedish Hell Ride DVD in the mail today. More sad news for all you importers: there are no extras on that …

One week until the BluRay releases of both Kill Bill volumes hit American shelves (I guess you can no longer call them DVD shelves, but then again, I’m one of those unlucky individuals unable to afford even an old-fashioned TV these days, not to mention anything HD, but nevermind), and I’m reading a pre-release review of the two discs by a blogger who’s everything else but not a fan of these two movies, nevertheless, …

We’ve known it for quite some team, but now comes the official press release as reported by DVDActive. Miramax will increase both Volumes of Kill Bill separately, as well as a set with both discs, on September 9. The films will come in full 1080P glory for those lucky bastards out there with Hi-Def equipment. The discs will cary the same extras as the previously released DVD versions, and they will be the American …

One of the greatest musicians and composers (for both on and off screen) has passed away. Isaac Hayes, famous for (in a long and rich career) among other things the Shaft soundtrack, reportedly died today in his home in Memphis, TN. Hayes was a hero at Stax Records, an Oscar-winning composer (Shaft), a cool actor (Truck Turner is a Tarantino favorite) and a famous voice (South Park). He will be missed. Tarantino fans will …

To all you BluRay lovers out there with your huge Plasma screens and PlayStation3s, Amazon is vamping up their BluRay offers, and they are bundling both Kill Bill Volume 1 and Volume 2 into a modestly priced under-$40 bundle that you can get HERE. Personally, I’m dying to see this in HD, so enjoy it if you are among the privileged who own HD equipment. The discs come in their theatrical versions with the …

Brought to you by your friends at The Weinstein Company? According to DeadlineHollywood, Quentin Tarantino has taken his project Inglorious Bastards to the big Hollywood Studios this week. The blog, which is a subsidiary of LAWeekly.com, writes Tarantino’s agency has sent out the script to the big four Warner Brothers, Sony Pictures, Universal, and Paramount. A former partner of Quentin’s and long time friend Lawrence Bender is apparently attached to the project as a …

If in doubt, consult Anne Thompson, or so a popular proverb might say. With all the jibber-jabber about how long Inglorious Bastards will be, whether it will be split like Kill Bill and how many screenplay revisions there might have been from a gazillion pages to a few hundred pages, well, she writes in her blog that when she talked to him at the Warren Beatty AFI gala (he got the lifetime achievement award, …

Sometimes I hate my job. Just like now. We get rumors after rumors and then you have to decide whether a certain rumor is credible enough to even talk about it. In this case, there’s the usual blown-up scoop from Aint it  Cool News, talking for almost a page long about an interview of Enzo Castellari and Quentin Tarantino on the upcoming American DVD release of the original Inglorious Bastards. So according to AICN’s …

What do Dennis Hopper, David Carradine, and Michael Madsen have in common? They are all three way too old to be in a biker movie. But they are, and that’s a big plus for all the exploitation movie fans out there. Biker film were some of the pivotal entries in motion picture history. They were rebellious, alternative and anti-establishment films that broke the ground and made Hollywood safe for roadmovies and other freedomsy type …

Will the long postponed high definition release of Kill Bill happen this fall? Kill Bill, both Volume 1 and Volume 2 have been announced for HD media for quite some time. The question has always been whether the HDDVD versus BluRay fight, or the Weinstein split from Miramax, or the planned The Whole Bloody Affair redux version of Kill Bill is actively delaying this release. We’ll probably not find out for some time. Dvdtown.com …

Students of our Kill Bill movie references guide (which will be getting an overhaul pretty soon, we promise!) will know, that one of the pivotal influences on Tarantino’s filmmaking are Spaghetti Westerns. One of them, or should I say one of the most famous, is getting a DVD release in the United States next week. Navajo Joe starring Burt Reynolds, directed by “the other Sergio” Sergio Corbucci.

The wait is over. Pre-order listings at various DVD stores and word of mouth seem to indicate, that SEPTEMBER 18th is in fact the date Kill Bill is finally arriving on DVD, but with a vengeance. After years of having to be satisfied with the flimsy bare bones editions (which I personally finally bought because I got sick of TNT showing the film so censored, those fuckers!), what seems to be released will be, …