Monday, June 23, 2025

Friday Morning Spice

Calls for anti-gangsterism summit, Why Tim Cook is going all in on the Apple Vision Pro, Cell C kisses its own network goodbye, Dricus du Plessis, is bringing the gold to Cape Town, and inside Sid Vicious’s drug-fuelled last party.

SPL!NG Movie Review: The Hateful Eight

The Hateful Eight is a Quentin Tarantino film, which has drawn inspiration from The Thing and Reservoir Dogs. The crime drama mystery western is set more than a decade after the Civil War and follows a stagecoach, as a bounty hunter and his passengers find shelter in a cabin inhabited by some mysterious strangers.

eBay Bans Django Unchained Dolls

eBay yesterday decided to ban the sale of the controversial dolls linked to Quentin Tarantino’s latest western movie about a freed slave, Django Unchained. It described the dolls as “offensive”, and the toymaker who manufactured the dolls had already discontinued them.

SPL!NG Movie Review: Django Unchained

Slavery is not dead, it’s alive and well in Hollywood. We’re not talking about those struggling actors chained to their trailers between takes, being forced to succumb to the hardship of celebrity, we’re talking about a trend that has emerged in 2012 in Cloud Atlas, Lincoln, Les Misérables and most notably Django Unchained, in a […]

Tuesday Morning Spice

Prince Harry admits to killing Taliban. Zille withdraws from New Age Breakfast. Tarantino looking enormous. Pippa’s follow-up book canned. World’s best big-wave surfers attempt Mavericks. Wikileaks says Aaron Swartz was a possible source. Dreamliner probe widens.

First Trailer For Quentin Tarantino’s New Film, “Django Unchained” [VIDEO]

Before the year is over Quentin Tarantino will unleash his new film, “Django Unchained”. Jamie Foxx stars as Django, a slave looking for revenge during the Mississippi plantation era. The rest of the cast includes Leonardo DiCaprio, Samuel L. Jackson, and Don Johnson. Check out the film’s first trailer – after the jump.

SPL!NG Movie Review: The Skin I Live In (2011)

Skin… everyone’s got one, except that guy dangling from the tree in Predator. The word has developed a stigma and a deviant curiosity in Hollywood: Mysterious Skin, Skinwalkers, ‘skin flicks’ – and it would be rash to think The Skin I Live In, a film that nabbed a spot in Quentin Tarantino’s Top Ten Films of 2011, could cure that little niggling […]

The Tarantino Genesis [VIDEO]

It has been found! Well, refound. If you’re a big Quentin Tarantino fan, which you almost certainly are, then you will love this clip from his very first movie “My Best Friend’s Birthday”. The whole thing is like concentrated Tarantino, squeezed into a half an hour. everything is there: his hyper-manic acting, black humour and very clever camera work and dialogue. Click through for the (very long) video.