Quentin Jerome Tarantino (born March 27, 1963) is an American filmmaker, actor, film programmer, and cinema owner.
His films are characterized by nonlinear storylines, satirical subject matter, aestheticization of violence, extended scenes of dialogue, ensemble casts, references to popular culture and a wide variety of other films, soundtracks primarily containing songs and score pieces from the 1960s to the 1980s, alternate history, and features of neo-noir film.
Every Tuesday, discriminating viewers are confronted with a flurry of choices: new releases on disc and on-demand, vintage and original movies on any number of streaming platforms, catalog titles making a splash on Blu-ray or 4K.
This twice-monthly column sifts through all of those choices to pluck out the movies most worth your time, no matter how you’re watching.
It’s another big week here at the ol’ disc and streaming corner, with a bunch of contemporary hits and classics landing on 4K, a couple of new additions to the Criterion Collection, cult movies galore, a must-have film noir collection, and more odds and ends.
PICK OF THE WEEK: “Out of Sight”: Steven Soderbergh hadn’t been up to much when Jersey Films took a chance on him as director of their follow-up to the 1995 adaptation of Elmore Leonard’s “Get Shorty”; Soderbergh had yet to find a project that even approached the impact of his debut film, “sex, lies, and videotape,” and had wandered into a wilderness of mostly unseen indies.
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