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Kill Bill: Volume 1

October 2022

  • Lucy Liu

    Meghan attacks Hollywood caricatures of Asian women in film

    Duchess of Sussex discusses their depiction in films such as Austin Powers and Kill Bill in her podcast series

February 2022

  • Charlize Theron and Tom Hardy in Mad Max: Fury Road.

    Lights! Camera! Infraction! Mad Max shows why Hollywood indulges bad behaviour

    Charlize Theron felt so threatened by Mad Max co-star Tom Hardy that she asked for a female producer as protection. Yet the industry still relies on film sets being lawless bubbles where you question macho posturing at your peril

August 2021

  • Sonny Chiba.

    Sonny Chiba, martial arts master and Kill Bill star, dies aged 82

    Chiba made his name with the 1970s Street Fighter trilogy, before Quentin Tarantino’s admiration brought him fame in the west

May 2020

  • Salvatore Cascio in Cinema Paradiso (1988)

    'I barely breathed': Tilda Swinton, Emma Thompson, Steve McQueen and more on their most memorable moments at the movies

    From transformative nights in the grubbiest of fleapits to spellbinding screenings under the stars, film-makers and critics recall the communal thrill of going to the cinema

July 2019

  • Uma Thurman in Pulp Fiction

    Quentin Tarantino’s take on women and violence

    Letter: Andrew Clifford says whatever Quentin Tarantino’s directorial vices, violence against women is not one of them

May 2018

  • Gabrielle Union in Breaking in.

    Look out, Hollywood, this is the year of superheroine revenge

    Hanna Flint
    A new wave of female action heroines has arrived to kick misogynist ass, says the freelance writer and editor Hanna Flint

February 2018

  • Quentin Tarantino

    Tarantino responds to Uma Thurman crash claim: 'The biggest regret of my life'

  • Uma Thurman Hosts Brunch for The Hateful Eight’s Samuel L Jackson, Jennifer Jason Leigh and Walton Goggins<br>NEW YORK, NY - JANUARY 5: Uma Thurman and Harvey Weinstein attend Uma Thurman Hosts Brunch for The Hateful Eight’s Samuel L Jackson, Jennifer Jason Leigh and Walton Goggins at Monkey Bar on January 5, 2016 in New York City. (Photo by Owen Hoffmann/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images)

    Uma Thurman breaks silence over Harvey Weinstein

February 2016

  • Quentin Tarantino film costumes

    Quentin Tarantino complains the Oscars never recognise his film's costumes

    At the Costume Designers Guild Awards the Hateful Eight director said he takes costumes ‘very seriously’ – which is why they’re popular at Halloween

January 2016

  • Samuel L Jackson in Quentin Tarantino’s new film The Hateful Eight.

    How much do you know about Quentin Tarantino?

    Tarantino’s eagerly awaited western, The Hateful Eight, is released on Friday. Test your knowledge of QT’s CV with our quiz…

November 2015

  • Uma Thurman

    Five best moments
    Uma Thurman: five best moments

    With the release of Burnt, we look back at Thurman’s career-defining roles, which began with Mia Wallace in Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction

July 2015

  • Quentin Tarantino poses with Hateful Eight cast member Kurt Russell

    Quentin Tarantino says The Hateful Eight will have Ennio Morricone score

    Epic new film will feature soundtrack from spaghetti western composer, director says, while enthusing about Ben-Hur lenses and possible Kill Bill: Volume 3

April 2015

  • James Cameron, who is planning to make three Avatar sequels back-to-back.

    Film blog
    When directors shoot movies back-to-back, who wins?

    James Cameron’s plan to film three Avatar sequels one after the other represents the peak of Hollywood’s obsession with stockpile film-making

April 2014

  • Uma Thurman in Kill Bil

    Readers recommend
    Readers recommend: songs about feet

    Astaire's tap dancing? Zidane's sublime passing? Thurman's stylish acting? Let inspiration leap and vote with your feet in this week's song theme, says Peter Kimpton

March 2010

  • Uma Thurman in Kill Bill: Vol 1 (2003)

    Quentin Tarantino faces plagiarism lawsuit over Kill Bill 1 and 2

    Harvey Weinstein and Quentin Tarantino have been accused by Dannez Hunter as using without credit ideas he submitted in a concept to Miramax in 1999

May 2004

  • Kill Bill eclipses Kaufman at UK box office

    Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill 2 saw off competition from Charlie Kaufman's Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind to retain UK no 1 spot

April 2004

  • Kill Bill Vol 1

    It feels odd to be reviewing what, for all its length, still feels like half a film with plot and motives largely to be resolved in part two - at this point we're left without a clue who Bill is or what caused the massacre - and even odder to see a Tarantino film devoid of any interesting dialogue.

October 2003

  • Kill Bill rampages to US no 1

  • Kill Bill: Volume 1

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