I wish that the title of Tarantino’s last film accurately summarised my feelings towards Tarantino’s oeuvre but I still haven’t seen Django Unchained. That said, truthfully, I still rather like his first three features, even if I despise what the successes of those pictures influenced. There’s not much point figuring out which of the characters in the film… Continue reading The Hateful Eight (Tarantino, 2015)
Recently, former professional wrestler turned actor Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson was revealed by Forbes to be the highest paid actor on the planet, earning 64.5 million U.S. dollars last year. This is mainly down to the success of Furious 7 and the disaster movie San Andreas which did big numbers at the box office. The… Continue reading The Guardian, Hollywood Pay-triarchy and Film Taste
Bob Foster was a fearsome light heavyweight who possessed devastating knockout power in either hand and who, because he could not get many big name fights in the division, occasionally moved up to heavyweight to try to find success there. He didn’t. In fact, no other fighter perhaps demonstrates the necessity of weight classes as… Continue reading The Golovkin Paradox
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