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Grindhouse (2007): A Looking Closer Film Forum

Grindhouse (2007): A Looking Closer Film Forum

Before we join the rush of religious-press reviewers who are condemning Grindhouse outright, let's understand what it is first. Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez have a particular nostalgia for films like those they watched growing up. Many of those films were cheap, exploitative, spectacularly bad, and filled with

Sin City (2005)

Robert Rodriguez

Sin City (2005)

[2015 Update: Revisiting this post a decade after I wrote it, I find that it's the sort of review that I hope I've learned to write better. You'll see that I've let my frustrations with the film overwhelm my capacity to assess

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Sin City - Peter Chattaway has seen it.

And he's "still processing it." If this is how he "processes," I can't wait to read the final review. This film tells something like five or six stories, some very short and some a little longer, and they all reflect that grim,