Tag: grindhouse
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Hooptober 11.0 – Death Proof (2007)
Being Film #16 for Hooptober 2024 Outside of Once Upon A Time In Hollywood… I don’t think there’s a more personal, more fanboy love letter to movies in Quentin Tarantino’s filmography than Death Proof. With overt callouts and structural similarities to the films he loves, much of this is readily obvious. But in making his…
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Hooptober 11.0 – Planet Terror (2007)
Being Film #15 for Hooptober 2024 I wish Grindhouse didn’t fail as bad as it did at the box office. I remember seeing the entire experience in theaters and it was incredible. For every pale imitation (Hobo With a Shotgun, Rodriguez’s own Machete) it spawned, it also remains a singular experience, both taken as a…