Sergio Leone News

February 24, 2010
Five Facts About Micmacs
Jean-Pierre Jeunet is one of France's most revered directors. His 2001 modern classic, Amelie, is the most successful French-language film of all time, raking in over £112 million at the worldwide box office. Dalliances into Hollywood have been less successful, with 1997's Alien Resurrection receiving a critical mauling and an attempt to adapt Yann Martel's Life of Pi abandoned at the eleventh hour. Now Jeunet is back where he belongs, in France. And his extraordinary imagination has created a new set of highly original characters for his latest film, Micmacs. In it, Dany Boon is a hapless slacker who enlists a bunch of quirky underdogs to help him defeat the weapons manufacturers responsible for his father's death. RT brings you five facts about Jeunet's latest creation (and, yes, we do explain that baffling title...) More...

August 11, 2009
Quentin Tarantino talks Inglourious Basterds - RT Interview
With his sixth film, Quentin Tarantino has fashioned the ultimate in pulp fiction, a Second World War epic set in Nazi-occupied France that sees two parallel assassination plots vying to kill off the Big Four: Adolf Hitler, Martin Borman, Joseph Goebbels and Heinrich Himmler. Now, this might suggest that Inglourious Basterds is the pop-culture king's most serious film to date, and though it probably is, it's far from heavy, with outstanding, dry-comedic turns - notably from Brad Pitt as the Tennessee-born Lieutenant Aldo Raine - and an effervescent black humour. Sitting down exclusively with Rotten Tomatoes, he discusses his wartime adventure, over ten years in the making... More...

May 8, 2006
Trailer Bulletin: The Proposition
If you like your action westerns extra gritty and a little on the Australian side, you'll want to be sure to check out John Hillcoat's excellent "The Proposition." But since it's a limited release title, you might just need this trailer to hold you over until the DVD release. More...