Review - The Hateful Eight
The Hateful Eight (2015), R, 167 minutes (187 minutes Roadshow 70mm) - Quentin Tarantino announced this film in late 2013, about a year after he released 2012's Django Unchained . Shortly thereafter, the script leaked online and he threatened to cancel the film entirely. Fortunately for those of us who are fans of his work, he changed his mind after hosting a live reading of the script in Los Angeles and by the end of 2014 had begun production on his eighth feature length film. The Hateful Eight (which is the second western in Tarantino's stable of films) takes place just years after the Civil War on a Wyoming mountain pass leading to Red Rock and finds a colorful bunch of characters holed up at Minnie's Haberdashery while a nasty blizzard blows by. This bunch includes two bounty hunters - Major Marquis Warren (Samuel L. Jackson) and John 'The Hangman' Ruth (Kurt Russell), their bounties - including Daisy Domergue (Jennifer Jason Leigh), the new Sh...