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WHAT SHOULD BE QUENTIN TARANTINO'S 10TH AND FINAL FILM?

We all have our favorite directors that remind us why we love movies and, to us, makes great movie after great movie. One of those directors for me is Quentin Tarantino. Sure, in all his films the violence can be visceral as well as the language being profuse, but we get a great deal of one-of-a-kind storytelling with insanely memorable characters and the most tightly written dialogue your ears will ever hear. And I can say that he's made some of my favorite films of all time rewriting history in a twisted, but fun way in Inglourious Basterds and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. He reinvented the Western genre, which made me love said genre a whole lot more in Django Unchained and The Hateful Eight. And let's not forget his contributions of making simple yet effective gangster films in Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction (some might argue Jackie Brown but that's one I want to revisit). The list goes on and on for his incredible filmography, but in reality, he's h...

WHY THE STAR WARS SPECIAL EDITIONS ARE SPECIAL (100th POST)

When it comes to beloved trilogies of all time the original Star Wars trilogy is certainly up there on most people's list. And while I don't have a favorite trilogy in the Star Wars saga and feels as if it evolved into my favorite movie series of all time with all 11 films, it's hard not to ignore that the Original Trilogy has a very special place in my heart. And when I mentioned it in my post about the prequels, which you can click here to read, I find that there isn't such thing as a wrong entry point into Star Wars. Whatever Star Wars journey you enjoyed that brought you into the franchise being one of the movies, the shows, video games, or books, treasure it as being the right way. If it made you love Star Wars, then that's what counts.  And to some, the right way is usually watching the Original Trilogy first, and while the version that has official availability is the Special Edition with the alterations George Lucas made, a majority of people were brought u...