THE HATEFUL EIGHT (18)

WHO’S IN IT?

Samuel L. Jackson (Pulp Fiction), Kurt Russell (Furious 7), Jennifer Jason Leigh (The Hudsucker Proxy), Walton Goggins (Lincoln), Demián Bichir (A Better Life), Tim Roth (Reservoir Dogs), Michael Madsen (Kill Bill), Bruce Dern (Nebraska), James Parks (Death Proof), Channing Tatum (Foxcatcher), Zoë Bell (Oblivion), Dana Gourrier (Django Unchained), Gene Jones (No Country For Old Men), Keith Jefferson (Tank Girl), Lee Horsley (Showdown at Area 51), Belinda Owino (Blacktino), Craig Stark (Homefront)

WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?

Quentin Tarantino (Django Unchained), director, writer; Richard N. Gladstein (Finding Neverland), Shannon McIntosh (Angels Sing) and Stacey Sher (A Walk Among The Tombstones), producers; Ennio Morricone (The Good, The Bad & The Ugly), composer; Robert Richardson (Inglourious Basterds), cinematographer; Fred Raskin (Guardians of the Galaxy), editor

WHAT’S IT ABOUT?

Some years after the American Civil War in Wyoming, during a powerful blizzard, bounty hunter John Ruth (Russell) is transporting fugitive Daisy Donaghue (Leigh) to Red Rock where she is to face justice for murder. Along the way, they pick up two more figures: former Union soldier Major Marquis Warren (Jackson) and Southern renegade Chris Mannix (Goggins). The blizzard eventually forces them to take shelter in Minnie’s Haberdashy, where they encounter four more people – caretaker Bob (Bichir), hangman Oswaldo Mobray (Roth), cow-puncher Joe Gage (Madsen) and former Confederate general Sandford Smithers (Dern) – and realise that they might not make it to Red Rock after all…

IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?

Quentin Tarantino returns to his beloved Western genre for an all-star shoot-out with all the qualities you expect from the filmmaker – in addition to being filmed in spectacular 70mm film, a must for all movie buffs.

WHEN’S IT OUT?

FRIDAY 8TH JANUARY 2016

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