The First Pictures From 'Django Unchained' Look Very Western

Garry and started following Quentin Tarantino

May 9, 2013

Josh is loving Everyone Freak Out: It's The 'Django Unchained' Trailer

March 6, 2013

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Spike Lee Will Not Be Seeing 'Django Unchained' This Christmas

Regardless of the fact that everyone around the world is celebrating the holiday that is Jesus' birthday, Spike Lee is here to remind you that partially--okay, mostly--the world's still a pretty sucky place, and Django Unchained, which opens nationwide in theatres today, is sound proof of that fact. The Quentin Taranatino-directed depiction of a slave marked to kill whites on his way to freedom (the slave is played by Jamie Foxx) contains not only gruesome acts of violence, but more that 100 uses of the n-word. It's a controversial film, and the argument is split as to whether or not the portrayal of slavery here is realistic or gratuitous. And Spike Lee wants no part of the matter. "I cant speak on it 'cause I'm not gonna see it," Spike confessed. "All I'm going to say is that it's disrespectful to my ancestors. That's just me...I'...

January 2, 2013

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Watch A Third, Less Intense Trailer For 'Django Unchained'

Because it is possible, apparently, to create a smoother, less jarring preview than the previous two in which Quentin Tarantino makes a batshit insane thriller western about Jamie Foxx as a battered slave being set free in order to kill all the white people in the land—including one Leonardo DiCaprio—please enjoy a third trailer for Django Unchained, which has no better time to assault the general public and sprinkle them with inevitable rash conversations about violence and race and slavery than Christmas 2012, the exact day in which it will reach theatres. Also look below for a white-haired Samuel L. Jackson, Jonah Hill as a klan member of some sort (how unfortunate for the kid from Superbad), and Scandal's Kerry Washington, although with the fact that this trailer quite literally has zero other females in the entire 2-minute sequence,...

December 10, 2012

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Quentin Tarantino Hints At Early Retirement After Two More Films

It's hard to imagine living in a world without a new Quentin Tarantino film every couple years, but that world just might become reality sooner than you'd think. Interviewed in the new issue of Playboy (which you should totally check out for the, um… articles), the Django Unchained director dropped a bit of a bomb: he plans on calling it a day after directing 10 films. In case you haven't been counting, Django will be his eighth. Yeah. Exactly. "I just don’t want to be an old-man filmmaker," Quentin explains. "I want to stop at a certain point. Directors don’t get better as they get older." Mmm, I'd imagine hardcore fans of Hitchcock, Godard and Kurosawa might disagree… but I can kind of see where he's coming from. Can you really imagine Quentin Tarantino making the same hardcore splatter pulp action flicks w...

December 10, 2012

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Damn: Quentin Tarantino Cuts New Frank Ocean Song From 'Django Unchained'

Sorry, kids—that whole "Frank Ocean could technically totally get nominated for an Oscar this year!" thing just popped like a big orange balloon. Earlier this year, Ocean mentioned to GQ that he'd written a new song for Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained. Awesome, right? Cue late last week, when the soundtrack album's officially track listing was released sans Frank Ocean. So what the hell happened? Tarantino released a statement soon after explaining: "Frank Ocean wrote a fantastic ballad that was truly lovely and poetic in every way, there just wasn't a scene for it. I could have thrown it in quickly just to have it, but that's not why he wrote it and not his intention. So I didn't want to cheapen his effort. But, the song is fantastic, and when Frank decides to unleash it on the public, they'll realize it then."

December 10, 2012