The ’70s were the perfect time to be paranoid: rumors of government-sanctioned assassinations here and abroad, second-gunman theories around dead presidents, whispers of elite secret societies pulling strings, that whole Watergate thing. It wafted in the air like yesterday’s tear gas. The movies picked up the vibe and amplified it. …
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H e is the most prolific actor of his generation and his films have grossed close to $30 billion, making him one of the highest-grossing actors ever. He is Quentin Tarantino’s muse, and has worked with everyone from Martin Scorsese and Steven Spielberg to Spike Lee and Paul Thomas Anderson. …
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Many people have called Dame Helen Mirren a “goddess” throughout her life. Now the Oscar-winning actor gets to portray a literal one onscreen, and destroy an entire city block in the process. Shazam! Fury of the Gods, the sequel to the 2019 D.C. Comics superhero movie, finds Mirren playing Hespera, …
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The Hollywood Foreign Press Association is shifting into high-gear ahead of the televised return of the Golden Globes. After last year’s awards were handed out via a very long Twitter thread, the typical A-list presenters will return this year with Quentin Tarantino, Billy Porter, and Jamie Lee Curtis among them. …
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There are all other legends, and then there is Pam Grier. She became the first and greatest Black female action hero of the Seventies, in blaxploitation classics like Coffy and Foxy Brown. She reigns as one of the all-time iconic Hollywood stars, from her Quentin Tarantino collaboration Jackie Brown to …
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Did anyone in the mid-‘90s really think that Quentin Tarantino was at risk of being a two-hit wonder? Certainly there wasn’t much reason to expect him to drop as cool and calm a movie as Jackie Brown for his third feature. Jackie Brown turns 25 this Christmas. It still looks …
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Before he was a superstar auteur, a Royale-with-Cheese rock star, the divisive and worshiped motormouth who launched a thousand dissertations and 10 times as many Film Twitter flame wars, Quentin Tarantino was a movie fanatic. It pays to remember this fact — not that the raconteur would ever let you …
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The sad news came down today today thatDelfonics frontman William “Poogie” Hart died from complications during a surgery. He was 77. “His music touched millions, continues to touch millions,” his son Hadi told Rolling Stone. “His body might not be here, but his music will live forever. He was a …
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On a hot August night in 1969, four murderous members of Charles Manson’s cult “family” invaded the Los Angeles home of pregnant actress Sharon Tate. Her husband, director Roman Polanski, was in Europe on business. What happened next made headlines and, for better or worse, history. You might not remember …
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