Django Unchained

Many of 2012’s later pieces of cinematic output had us writhing in anticipation throughout the year, desperate to see these promised gems come to fruition on the big screen.

Christoph Waltz won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for his work in Quentin Tarantino’s 2009 film, Inglourious Basterds.

Quentin Tarantino loves history. Sometimes it’s personal history: flashbacks and forwards allow movies like Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, and Kill Bill to fluidly bounce around time, the juxtaposition of the “then” and “now” creating illuminating collisions.

Frank Ocean was one of 2012’s biggest breakout stars—a huge album, he became a respected new voice in the LGBT community, topped many a critic’s Best-Of list with the aforementioned album, channel ORANGE, and a song that almost landed him in one of the year’s most anticipated movies, Django Unchained.

The sprawling musical drama Les Miserables clocks in at two hours and 38 minutes. Quentin Tarantino’s bloody new Western Django Unchained gallops in at two hours and 45. This month’s The Hobbit bests them both with a run time of two hours and 50 minutes….

Secret caches of gold, coffins ominously dragged across the landscape, cemetery and churchyard shootouts, sliced ears, baroque flashbacks, poor souls buried up to their necks in sand. All of these Grand Guignol augurs can only mean one thing. You’ve entered Spaghetti Western country!

Spike Lee is aware he doesn’t speak for everyone when he speaks out against filmmakers with differing agendas, but that isn’t keeping him mum….

We are a nation in mourning. And in times of mourning, we tend to err on the side of extreme caution, in hopes that we may not add to the pain that already consumes us and our neighbors.

That Quentin Tarantino is a nostalgia fetishist. Aside from ransacking cinema history for all the old genres, directors, and films he routinely references in his movies, the video-store-clerk-turned-filmmaker usually throws a cinematic bone or two to actors he considers among his personal faves.

The Weinstein Company has canceled on Tuesday’s Los Angeles premiere of Django Unchained, Deadline.com reports.

In the quest to remind people that there are a lot of really, really, really good actors in Quentin Tarantino’s upcoming bloody western, Django Unchained, a slew of new posters have come out featuring just that.

When Quentin Tarantino released Inglourious Basterds in 2009, it was the first time that people really began to challenge the status of Pulp Fiction as his finest film.

Political correctness has never been part of Quentin Tarantino’s filmmaking agenda.

Twenty years ago, an independent film from an unknown director appeared on the scene and immediately launched a legend.

A Quentin Tarantino movie is a picnic for the eyes. The man is a masterful aesthetic director in his use of color, set design and his manipulation of the camera.

The setting of a Quentin Tarantino movie has as much character as the players on screen. The filmmaker’s worlds are extremely vivid, and always operate in harmony with the lyrical way his actors speak and behave.

Can you imagine the Fresh Prince of Bel Air going up against Leonardo DiCaprio in a bloody Tarantino flick?

Quentin Tarantino is a man of style. When he releases promotional material for his movies, he’s not one to opt simply for an image of his leading man glaring stoically — he goes artsy.

If you thought Quentin Tarantino was going soft in his later years with the lack of blood and gore in the US trailer for Django Unchained trailer, think again.

The all-star cast of Quentin Tarantino’s new Western Django Unchained just lost another star.

Among all the sci-fi and superhero hoopla of San Diego Comic-Con, it was a western that caused one of the most formidable stirs in Hall H.

The all-star cast of Quentin Tarantino’s next film, Django Unchained, just lost one of its stars: Joseph Gordon-Levitt.

Rapper-actor RZA has been cast of Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained, Variety reports.

A couple weeks ago, Kevin Costner dropped out of Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained — but it looks a replacement has already been found: Kurt Russell.

The 65th Annual Cannes Film Festival is officially in full swing, with nearly everyone in Hollywood transported to the prestigious French fest for a week and a half of wheeling and dealing.

The revolving casting door that is Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained has swung yet again and added another (former) star to its cast: Don Johnson.

I’m pretty sure Quentin Taratino could cast anyone in Django Unchained and I would still be salivating at the thought of it.

We thought all of the wow moments were over. We thought, “Django Unchained casting is going to start settling down now.”

It’s happening. Jamie Foxx will take the lead in Quentin Tarantino’s American slavery-era Spaghetti Western, Django Unchained.

It’s safe to assume that when Quentin Tarantino was a kid, he probably watched a good deal of television—specifically, particularly stylized (and violent) television.

Tarantino. You hooked yet? If you haven’t heard, the man who founded Big Kahuna Burger, put a twisted spin on the otherwise pleasant Harry Nilsson song “Coconut,” and killed Hitler, is developing a project on the backdrop of American slavery in the upcoming Django Unchained.

Holy hell, you guys. Christmas came early. Well, actually, Django Unchained will be arriving in theaters Christmas Day 2012.

What the hell, Kevin Costner? Why on earth would anybody drop out of a Quentin Tarantino movie?

There’s only so many times America can proclaim how excited it is about a developing movie before it just becomes redundant.

When news hit that Quentin Tarantino would follow his Oscar nominated WWII flick Inglourious Basterds with a throwback spaghetti Western, film geeks got excited really quick.

Ten years ago, if you’d have told me that the kid from 3rd Rock from the Sun might be the next Tarantino star, I’d have been skepitcal.