The good news? The Weinsteins are FINALLY releasing Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair on 11/06. If you don't already know, this is the 4 hr. 7 min film that Tarantino originally wanted to release theatrically, until the Weinsteins forced him to split it into two halves ( Read more... )

"I think it’s official: if I hear one more person use the word “grindhouse” as an adjective, I’m going to punch a baby. No, scratch that. I’m going to punch every baby. Alphabetically. Over and over and over ( Read more... )

Friday night I dutifully marched out to the local theatre with falfax, jimberly, looking_askance, anarkistdream, cadence1, R, C2, Brickman, and Weems. The bottom-line: Grindhouse is the most mind-blowingly refreshing attack on mainstream cinema of the past 12 years; Four and a half stars out of 5 for the film, and 5 stars for theatrical exhibition presentation without question. If you lay claim to being a ( Read more... )

So, I've been out of town videotaping the OLA Conference in OKC the past few days and have been MIA. I'd like to spend time documenting that and the film festival last night (where I might add no one came out to support me - techix was excused for embarassment at seeing himself onscreen), but the higher-order of the day is....Grindhouse!So, who is coming ( Read more... )

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So in celebration of the upcoming Grindhouse (2007), Robert Rodriguez and the SXSW Film Festival is having a contest. Just as Eli Roth and Rob Zombie have created fake drive-in exploitation trailers that divide Quentin Tarantino's and Robert Rodriguez's features that comprise Grindhouse, this contest allows the participants to create their own ( Read more... )