Unspooling over a handful of days in February and August of 1969, Quentin Tarantino’s latest film, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood is the director’s love letter to Tinseltown, albeit one inked with a poison pen. Atypical of QT, his latest is a giddy grab bag of pop culture references and playful allusions to Hollywood’s […]
Author: Shane Scott-Travis
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8 Reasons Why “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” Is One of Tarantino’s Best Films
Although Quentin Tarantino’s never been a prolific filmmaker (he’s directed nine features since 1992’s Reservoir Dogs, if you count the Kill Bill films as a single entry, which QT famously does), he’s certainly one of the most influential. His breakthrough second feature, the zeitgeist-defining 1994 tour de force Pulp Fiction has left a lasting impression […]
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10 Great Sci-fi Movies You’ve Probably Never Seen
Since the earliest days of cinema the science fiction genre has flourished, capturing the imagination while commanding impressive box office receipts along the way. But not all great populist SF has been widely seen, become a large scale franchise, or been a big event film with A-list stars. Some get released and missed in the […]
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10 Movie Masterpieces You’ve Probably Never Seen
To the serious cineaste there’s something much more satisfying about quirky, cult oddities that were always intended for niche markets with very little chance of ever attaining mass appeal. The arthouse film, often the product of auteur filmmakers or non-traditional genre directors looking for more cerebral experiences and often transgressive tales deemed too avant-garde or […]
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The 10 Best Folk Horror Movies of All Time
For longtime genre fans there’s nothing terribly new about the folk horror subgenre. With recent popular slowburn gems like Robert Eggers’ The Witch (2016) and Ari Aster’s Midsommar (2019) generating new interest in these films, terrifying freakouts based on folktales and capitalizing on religious horror that includes archaic early Christianity, unsettling pagan traditions, antiquated rituals, […]
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The 10 Best Horror Movies of 2019 (So Far)
Here we are just squeaking by the midpoint of 2019 and already, as any genre fan can attest, we’ve seen a wealth of outstanding horror films. The following list of 10 titles rates and ranks what have so far been Taste of Cinema’s favorites, but it’s worth pointing out that the months ahead will unleash […]