Tag: Natural Born Killers

  • ‘Natural Born Killers’ Was Banned for Inspiring Real-Life Crimes

    ‘Natural Born Killers’ Was Banned for Inspiring Real-Life Crimes

    Oliver Stone’s take on a Quentin Tarantino story was reasonably expected to contain heavy doses of violence, but no one expected its (alleged) influence to blow over into the real world. Natural Born Killers is one of the most infamous movies of all time. Banned in several countries around the world, it is a piece…

  • Oliver Stone: ‘Oppenheimer’ Is a ‘Classic’ Film ‘I Never Believed Could Be Made in This Climate’

    Oliver Stone: ‘Oppenheimer’ Is a ‘Classic’ Film ‘I Never Believed Could Be Made in This Climate’

    Oliver Stone has joined Paul Schrader in praising Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer” as an instant classic.The “JFK” and “Natural Born Killers” director shared on Twitter that he finally saw the three-hour J. Robert Oppenheimer epic over the past weekend, saying he was “gripped by Chris Nolan’s narrative.” Stone also added that he was familiar with the…

  • Quentin Tarantino Doesn’t Consider Jackie Brown Part Of His Cinematic Universe

    Quentin Tarantino Doesn’t Consider Jackie Brown Part Of His Cinematic Universe

    “Jackie Brown” remains Quentin Tarantino’s only departure from writing and directing his own films and, as such, it continues to stand just outside of the explosive, hyper-real universe he’s created with all of his other features. Adapted from Elmore Leonard’s 1992 novel “Rum Punch,” Tarantino’s follow-up after the unprecedented success of “Pulp Fiction” was intentionally…

  • Tom Sizemore, ‘Saving Private Ryan’ Actor, Dies at 61

    Tom Sizemore, ‘Saving Private Ryan’ Actor, Dies at 61

    Tom Sizemore, the actor who played supporting parts in dozens of beloved ’90s films like “Saving Private Ryan” and “Heat,” died on Friday, March 3 in Los Angeles after being taken off life support. Variety first confirmed the news. Sizemore’s death comes more than a week after the actor suffered a ruptured brain aneurysm in…

  • Tom Sizemore, Actor Known For Heat And Saving Private Ryan, Has Died At 61

    Tom Sizemore, Actor Known For Heat And Saving Private Ryan, Has Died At 61

    Tom Sizemore, an actor perhaps best known for the role of Mike Horvath in “Saving Private Ryan,” has passed away at 61. He is survived by his two children.The news comes following Sizemore being rushed by paramedics to a hospital in Los Angeles and placed in the intensive care unit in critical condition after he…

  • ‘Any Given Sunday’: Oliver Stone Depicts Football as a War

    ‘Any Given Sunday’: Oliver Stone Depicts Football as a War

    Football is not for the faint of heart in America. Whether at the high school, collegiate, or professional level, the sport has transcended beyond a game and established itself as a religious following among the public. In order to adapt the equally chaotic and romantic sentiment of football for the big screen, few directors were…

  • Why Irish Censors Saw Fit To Ban Quentin Tarantino’s From Dusk Till Dawn

    Why Irish Censors Saw Fit To Ban Quentin Tarantino’s From Dusk Till Dawn

    The crude, lewd, and brutal cult classic “From Dusk Till Dawn” is a celebration of the kind of grindhouse insanity that its director Robert Rodriguez and screenwriter Quentin Tarantino grew up devouring. Despite the B-movie worship, however, the film is completely agnostic of traditional genre story structure, notoriously surprising people when the crime thriller they thought…

  • Quentin Tarantino Has Never Seen All of Oliver Stone’s Version of His ‘Natural Born Killers’

    Quentin Tarantino Has Never Seen All of Oliver Stone’s Version of His ‘Natural Born Killers’

    Quentin Tarantino’s disdain for “Natural Born Killers,” the movie Oliver Stone made from the script he sold to the director, has become well-known in the 27 years since it was released. Though still the story of psychopathic killers Mickey and Mallory Knox (Woody Harrelson and Juliette Lewis), the script was heavily revised by Stone, along…

  • Why the Writers Guild Awards Never Nominate Quentin Tarantino

    Why the Writers Guild Awards Never Nominate Quentin Tarantino

    One way the Writers Guild of America leverages clout is by withholding non-signatories from being part of the WGA Awards. That’s why unlike other guilds, a clump of indie, British, and animated movies find themselves excluded every year. A WGA nomination isn’t essential for Oscar nomination; exceptions include American indie “Beasts of the Southern Wild,”…