Michael Madsen, the prolific actor best known for playing tough guys in Quentin Tarantino films like Reservoir Dogs and the Kill Bill series, has died at the age of 67. Madsen’s reps confirmed the actor’s death to Variety, adding that he died Thursday morning from cardiac arrest in Malibu, California. …
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You can be an actor who stars in more than 200 movies in your career, with parts ranging from leads to glorified cameos, and yet it’s just one film that people associate with your name for the rest of your natural-born life. And occasionally, the role you’re lucky enough to …
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Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, the Academy Award-winning film released in 2019, will receive a sequel, this time filtered through the lens of director David Fincher rather than its original writer-director Quentin Tarantino. Fincher will helm the currently untitled follow-up under his recently extended first look deal at Netflix, …
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Fans anticipating Quentin Tarantino‘s final movie may have to wait a bit longer. The filmmaker confirmed that he is not in a rush to shoot a film and has instead been focused on writing and fatherhood for the past few years. “I’m in no hurry to actually jump into production,” …
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Samuel L. Jackson hasn’t forgotten his lines from Pulp Fiction. In honor of the film’s 30th anniversary, the actor posted a clip of himself reciting the Ezekiel 25:17 Bible verse, a notable moment for his character, from memory. In the video, Jackson intones the entire quote: “The path of the …
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In the grand tradition of Hollywood types taking mild swipes at each other in the press, George Clooney lightly roasted Quentin Tarantino for a perceived slight the director made about the actor’s movie star bona fides. In a new interview with GQ alongside friend/co-star Brad Pitt, Clooney and Pitt were …
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Quentin Tarantino will no longer be making The Movie Critic, the film he previously said would be his last as a director. Variety confirmed Wednesday that the director had passed on the project, which would have been his 10th film, and revealed that sources said he wouldn’t be rewriting the …
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Once upon a time … in war-torn London, Winston Churchill found himself face to face with the potential end of England as he knew it. The Blitz was in full effect. Europe was slowly being crushed under Hitler’s boot heels. German U-boats had turned the Atlantic into a graveyard, effectively …
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The Bay Area was a weird place in 1987. You had the remnants of the Me Decade’s cults of touchy-feeliness bumping up against Silicon Valley’s computer-nerd capitalism. Competing D.I.Y. music scenes meant you could surf between S.F. Thrash, East Bay rap, and pockets of punk popping up from everywhere; shows …
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It’s only about two minutes and 25 seconds, yet it remains the single best thing Eli Roth has ever done. Tucked right in the middle of Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino‘s ambitious, mondo-grimy Grindhouse (2007) is a trailer for a fake movie called Thanksgiving. You probably remember it, if you …
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