Slotted in the middle of Kill Bill’s four hours of relentless bloodshed and cartoonish dialogue is a quiet scene around a fire. The assassin Beatrix Kiddo sits across from her boss, Bill, who is caressing and occasionally tooting a massive bamboo flute. H... See more
When I was a kid, I begged God for a deeper voice. By the time I was in Grade 4, the voices of the other boys at my Catholic school were beginning to crackle with age. Their registers were sinking, lowering into something manly. It seemed to be happening ... See more
Richard Linklater’s Before trilogy lasts nearly five hours and took 18 years to be released in its entirety, but I’ve always thought its grandest revelation arrives in the first film’s earliest minutes. 1995’s Before Sunrise follows Jesse (Ethan Hawke) an... See more