Tag: Quentin Tarantino

Jamie Foxx, the actor who recently joked it was great to kill white people while hosting “Saturday Night Live,” is speaking out about the role movie violence has on real-life tragedies like the Connecticut school shooting. The timing is pretty

(AP) – Hollywood has responded to the rampage at a Connecticut elementary school by pulling back on its offerings, and one star says the entertainment industry should take some responsibility for such violence. Fox pulled new episodes of “Family Guy”

The latest Quentin Tarantino film has violence, lots of it, and features more than 100 uses of the “N-word.” Stop … the presses? “Django Unchained,” set for a Christmas Day release date, has Tarantino once more in the culture war

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 13 (UPI) — Steven Spielberg’s historical drama “Lincoln” was nominated for a leading seven Golden Globe Awards, including Best Drama, in Los Angeles Thursday morning. Quentin Tarantino’s blood-soaked, 19th century-set revenge picture “Django Unchained” and Ben Affleck’s

Jamie Foxx used his opening monologue on last night’s edition of “Saturday Night Live” to assure us that “black is in.” Foxx, who recently told an awards show crowd that President Barack Obama is “our Lord and Savior,” employed his

(AP) NBR Awards name ‘Zero Dark Thirty’ best filmBy JAKE COYLEAP Entertainment WriterNEW YORKKathryn Bigelow’s “Zero Dark Thirty” continued to gather awards momentum as the National Board of Review named the Osama bin Laden hunt docudrama the best film of

The creator of the “Star Wars” franchise is no longer in control of his own galaxy. George Lucas sold Lucasfilm, along with the celebrated space franchise, to Disney today for $4.05 billion. Yes, “billion” with a “b.” “I’ve always believed

It’s no secret the Hollywood community wants four more years of President Barack Obama. A new report puts some numbers on that fixation. Through Oct. 21, 198 “celebrity” donors have given $684,006 to the Barack Obama campaign compared with 14 donors

This year’s Oscar race may start – and stop – on Friday. Director Paul Thomas Anderson’s “The Master” hits theaters this weekend, bringing with it an all-star cast, feverishly positive festival reviews and the kind of award season luster that

(AP) ‘Top Gun’ director dies after jumping off bridgeBy CHRISTOPHER WEBERAssociated PressLOS ANGELES Tony Scott, director of such Hollywood blockbusters as “Top Gun,” “Days of Thunder” and “Beverly Hills Cop II,” died Sunday after jumping from a Los Angeles County

There are precious few “event” moments in modern cinema. For this critic, any time the Coen brothers release a new film it’s mark your calender time. The same holds true for Quentin Tarantino projects or animated features from the wizards

In this day and age, with the sorry state of film making, there is nothing like the promise of a new Tarantino flick, and this sounds fantastic. There might be spoilers. I wouldn’t know, I only read the first paragrah.