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14 Sept 2025

A Brief Note on the Assassination of Charlie Kirk

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  Charlie Kirk and the man accused of his murder Tyler Robinson    One of the great ironies of politics today - noted by Jean Baudrillard on...
9 Oct 2023

When Jerry Seinfeld and Quentin Tarantino Met Lawrence Tierney ...

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Lawrence Tierney as Elaine's father Alton Benes  Seinfeld (S2/E3, 1991)     I.    Twice recently, I have encountered a Lawrence Tierney...
19 Sept 2023

Release the Hounds! (With Reference to Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon a Time in Hollywood and Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights)

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  Sayuri as Brandy the Pitbull in Quentin Tarantino's   Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019)     Those who have seen the Quentin Tarant...
15 Mar 2022

Footnote on Quentin Tarantino's 'Once Upon a Time in Hollywood'

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Margot Robbie as Sharon Tate and Margaret Qualley as Pussycat in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (dir. Quentin Tarantino, 2019) Quentin Tarant...
7 Feb 2022

Even Nice Guys Get Things Wrong

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Russell Crowe as Healy and Margaret Qualley as Amelia  in The Nice Guys (dir. Shane Black, 2016)     There are many things to like and admi...
12 Jul 2019

Again to Nowhere and Nothing Again: The Multiple Death-in-Life Masks of Charles Manson - A Guest Post by Símón Solomon

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With the 50th anniversary overlap of Quentin Tarantino's latest movie - a black comedy-cum-thriller set in 1969 LA - and an orth...
28 Apr 2018

In Praise of the Bob

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Louise Brooks with trademark shingle bob  in The Canary Murder Case (1929) As is evident throughout his work, D. H. Lawrence had ...
11 Apr 2015

How Winston Wolf Lost His Bite

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Harvey Keitel as Winston Wolf, courtesy of Miramax, in a Saatchi and Saatchi ad for First Direct (2014) There are many great perfor...
10 Jun 2014

Edwige Fenech (Queen of Italian Cinema)

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According to her fans - of whom there are many, including Quentin Tarantino - Edwige Fenech is la piu bella donna del mondo a...
3 May 2014

On The Good, The Bad and the Ugly and Its Critics

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The Good, The Bad and the Ugly by Billy Perkins The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966), directed by Sergio Leone and starring Cli...
1 May 2014

In Praise of Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction

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Pulp Fiction , written and directed by Quentin Tarantino, is twenty years old this month having premiered in Cannes, May 1994.  ...