Quentin Tarantino

"In addition to being among the most celebrated of contemporary filmmakers, Quentin Tarantino is possibly the most joyously infectious movie lover alive. For years he has touted in interviews his eventual turn to writing books about films. Now, with Cinema Speculation, the time has come, and the results are everything his passionate fans--and all movie lovers--could have hoped for. Organized around key American films from the 1970s, all of which he...

Follows a television actor and his stunt double as they navigate the changing film industry in Los Angeles in 1969.

During World War II, a group of Jewish-American guerilla soldiers, led by Lt. Aldo Raine, become known as "The Basterds." They are chosen specifically to spread fear throughout the Third Reich by scalping and brutally killing Nazis. The Basterds soon cross paths with a French-Jewish woman who runs a movie theater in Paris which is targeted by the soldiers. A plot is set in motion to kill the Nazis at the theater's movie premier, including Adolph Hitler....

A flight attendant is questioned by an AFT agent who wants to arrest the arms dealer for whom the attendant smuggles money. The bailsbondsman who bails her out, a stoned surfer girl, and a recently released ex-con complete the crowd all looking for $500,000.