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Top Ten Movies of 2009

Kim Morgan | Posted 12.29.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Antichrist, Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans, Jody Hill, Werner Herzog, Seth Rogen, Observe and Report, Quentin Tarantino, Inglourious Basterds, A Serious Man, Nicolas Cage, Kim Morgan, Entertainment News
Kim Morgan

Once again, here's my top ten of 2009 -- an interesting year for movies. And no, I haven't seen Avatar yet.

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Watching Inglourious Basterds In A Room Full of Jews

The Candler Blog | Jonathan Poritsky | Posted 12.19.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Jewish Identity, Holocaust, Bible, Hitler, Inglorious Bastards, Judaism, Revenge Fantasy, Inglorious Basterds, Jewish Culture, Film, Jewish Theological Seminary, Ww2, Cinema, Religion, Wwii, Gore, Lawrence Bender, Quentin Tarantino, Persecution, Entertainment News

Dr. Kalmanofsky, no stranger to Judeo-Chrisitian-pop deconstruction, opened the discussion with some fascinating points about the concept of the reven...

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Review: Inglourious Basterds on Blu-ray

Bryan Young | Posted 12.17.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: World War II, Quentin Tarantino, Inglourious Basterds, Spaghetti Western, Entertainment News
Bryan Young

If you're on the fence about purchasing a Blu-ray player, movies like Inglourious Basterds should be all the convincing you need.

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Quentin Tarantino Does Kung-Fu In Japanese Commercial (VIDEO)

Posted 11.13.2009 | Business

Read More: Brad Pitt, Commercials, Advertising, Campaign Ads, Best Commercials, Quentin Tarantino, Japanophile, Japan, Softbank, Business News

Quentin Tarantino will appear in an upcoming Softbank commercial, the company announced this week. The Japanese telecommunications giant, whose past s...

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'Whip It' Premiere: Drew Barrymore, Ellen Page & A Sparkly, Gloved Juliette Lewis (PHOTOS)

Posted 11.30.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Whip It, Ellen Page, Juliette-Lewis, Steven Spielberg, Quentin Tarantino, Slideshow, Olivia Wilde, Eve, Film, Drew Barrymore, Entertainment News

Drew Barrymore showed up in a slinky black dress and shorter locks (the black tips she was sporting as of late have thankfully been chopped off) at th...

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Quentin Tarantino and Morally Responsible Cinema

Mike Miley | Posted 10.23.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Quentin Tarantino, Clockwork Orange, Inglourious Basterds, Stanley Kubrick, Pulp Fiction, Entertainment News
Mike Miley

Tarantino gets singled out as being morally vacant because he makes violence funny, and he's successful because he's really good at it.

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An Inglourious Basterdization of History

Bryan Farrell | Posted 10.21.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Melanie Laurent, Nonviolence, Brad Pitt, Roger Ebert, Nazis, Eli Roth, Quentin Tarantino, Inglourious Basterds, Tom Cruise, Gandhi, Adolf Hitler, World War II, Valkyrie, Entertainment News
Bryan Farrell

There is a surprising truth about WWII: nonviolence, of the kind Gandhi practiced, was used successfully against the Nazis.

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Germans Relish Tarantino's 'Inglourious Basterds'

GlobalPost | Posted 10.20.2009 | World

Read More: Schindler's List, Nazi Germany, Brad Pitt, Life Is Beautiful, Brad-Pitt-Inglorious-Bastard, Germany, Inglorious Basterd, Quentin Tarantino Movie, Quentin Tarantino, Tarantino, Valkyrie, Quentin Tarantino Film, World News

And now there's Quentin Tarantino's Nazi-era splatter film "Inglourious Basterds," which -- to my great surprise -- has rocketed to the top of the Ger...

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'Inglourious' Poetic Political Lyrical Sons

Kim Morgan | Posted 10.17.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Quentin Tarantino, Brad Pitt, Inglourious Basterds, Melanie-Laurent, Christoph Waltz, Entertainment News
Kim Morgan

The idea that Tarantino is going to eradicate memories of the Holocaust is almost as ludicrous as believing Col. Hogan really did convince Col. Klink he was psychic, and that the episode "Psychic Kommandant" really did happen.

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The Problem With Tarantino: He Has Nothing to Say

Michael Judge | Posted 10.16.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Quentin Tarantino, Inglourious Basterds, A-Clockwork-Orange, Quentin Tarantino Inglorious Bastards, Entertainment News
Michael Judge

Tarantino's Inglorious Basterds is certainly no more a violation of moral taboos than was A Clockwork Orange at the time of its release: the problem is that Tarantino's violence, and by extension Tarantino, haven't got anything to say.

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Inglourious Indeed

Michael Jones | Posted 10.16.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Movie Review, Brad Pitt, Film Review, Inglorious Bastards, Pulp Fiction, Quentin Tarantino, Kill Bill, Jackie Brown, Entertainment News
Michael Jones

There are a number of reasons why Inglorius Basterds is so disappointing. Self-indulgence and tongue-in-cheek hipness does not a movie make.

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Quentin Tarantino Movie Generator

Cracked.com | Posted 10.16.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Quentin Tarantino, Kill Bill, Tarantino Movie Generator, Inglourious Basterds, Comedy News

Quentin Tarantino: A hit director when he remembers to pick a genre people care about, an extraordinarily expensive hobbyist when he doesn't. ...

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The Final Destination 3D Defeats Halloween II in the Year's Dumbest Showdown: Huff Post Weekend Box Office in Review

Scott Mendelson | Posted 09.30.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Final Destination, Scott Mendelson, Sandra Bullock, Hayao Miyazaki, All About Steve, Julie and Julia, Movies, Rob Zombie, Box Office, Brad Pitt, Ponyo, Transformers Revenge of the Fallen, Meryl Streep, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Quentin Tarantino, Inglourious Basterds, 3d, Halloween II, News, Gamer, Entertainment News
Scott Mendelson

Yup, summer is officially over. Now we can get to what's really important -- trying to keep up with the dozen or so new Oscar-bait releases and overestimating James Cameron's Avatar.

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Tarantino & Inglourious Basterds: An Uncomfortable Laugh

Tom Matlack | Posted 09.29.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Quentin Tarantino, Brad Pitt, Inglourious Basterds, Adolf Hitler, Pulp Fiction, Entertainment News
Tom Matlack

There is no doubt that Tarantino is the master at forcing us to get inside our own reactions to violence through uncomfortable laughter.

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Big Brother 11: Desperate Houseguests

Tallulah Morehead | Posted 09.28.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Reality TV, Yoko Ono, Julie Chen, Lord of the Rings, Quentin Tarantino, Cbs, Jesus Christ Superstar, Lost, Big Brother, Big Brother 11, Entertainment News
Tallulah Morehead

This was a week of grief and horror, the likes of which I have not seen since the 2004 presidential election. The Bromance of the Century was broken beyond repair.

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Another Way to See "Inglourious Basterds"

Mark Blankenship | Posted 09.27.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Brad Pitt, Holocaust, Inglorious Bastards, Quentin Tarantino, The Holocaust, Inglourious Basterds, Revenge, Christoph Waltz, Movies, Quentin Tarantino Inglorious Bastards, Entertainment News
Mark Blankenship

Maybe I'm alone here, but I say Inglorious Basterds is about something more.

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Interview: Inglourious Basterds' Diane Kruger

Zorianna Kit | Posted 09.26.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Quentin Tarantino, Brad Pitt, Inglourious Basterds, Diane Kruger, Entertainment News
Zorianna Kit

"Being German," said Kruger, "I had a pretty precise idea of what a German movie star would be like."

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Delayed Huff Post Weekend Box Office in Review (08/23/09)

Scott Mendelson | Posted 09.26.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Shorts, Scott Mendelson, Julie and Julia, Movies, GI Joe: The Rise of Cobra, Robert Rodriguez, Box Office, District 9, Brad Pitt, Post Grad, Harvey Weinstein, Alexis Bledel, Meryl Streep, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Quentin Tarantino, Inglourious Basterds, News, Entertainment News
Scott Mendelson

As everyone and their sister already knows, Inglourious Basterds scored a genuinely impressive $38 million over its debut weekend.

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'Inglourious Basterds' Secret Oscar Campaign Strategy

Los Angeles Times | Posted 09.25.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Quentin Tarantino, Inglourious Basterds, The Oscars, Harvey Weinstein, Entertainment News

Surely, the question has occurred to you: Why isn't Oscar-mad Harvey Weinstein releasing "Inglourious Basterds" in Oscar-friendly November or December...

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Getting Back To the Quintessential Quentin

Jackie K. Cooper | Posted 09.24.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Violence, Quentin Tarantino, Brad Pitt, Hitler, World War II, Inglourious Basterds, Entertainment News
Jackie K. Cooper

Tarantino knows how to build up the suspense and how to let it go.

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Tarantino's Red

Regina Weinreich | Posted 09.24.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Quentin Tarantino, Brad Pitt, Melanie Laurent's, Inglourious Basterds, Diane Kruger, Entertainment News
Regina Weinreich

I take Tarantino at his word when he says Inglourious Basterds is a spaghetti Western with WWII iconography. The movie is not about the Holocaust, nor about Jews. It is about the color red.

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'Inglourious Basterds' Wins At Box Office

AP | DAVID GERMAIN | Posted 09.24.2009 | Entertainment

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LOS ANGELES — The war effort by Quentin Tarantino and Brad Pitt has paid off as their history lesson "Inglourious Basterds" claimed victory at t...

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HuffPost Review: Inglourious Basterds

Dr. David G. Marwell | Posted 09.21.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Quentin Tarantino, Inglourious Basterds, Harvey Weinstein, Entertainment News
Dr. David G. Marwell

This film is brilliantly acted, with sharp and intelligent dialogue, and is chock full of subtle --and not so subtle-- film allusions.

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Basterds, Sam Fuller and Snoopy: Talking to Tarantino

Kim Morgan | Posted 09.19.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Ralph Meeker, Quentin Tarantino, Brad Pitt, Inglourious Basterds, Joseph Gobbels, Christoph Waltz, Aldo Ray, Entertainment News
Kim Morgan

"When I came up with the idea to deal with the filmmaking end of the Third Reich and the German film industry," Tarantino said, "I thought, 'Wow that's never really been done before.'"

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'Inglourious Basterds' Star A Tarantino Critic

The Daily Beast | Posted 09.19.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Quentin Tarantino, Inglourious Basterds, Film, Quentin Tarantino Inglorious Bastards, Christoph-Waltz, Entertainment News

Austrian actor Christoph Waltz--the breakout star of Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds--can't be accused of sucking up to the director. "I'm...

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