Hosted by Andrew Quinn and Darren Mooney, The 250 is a (mostly) weekly trip through some of the best (and worst) movies ever made, as voted for by Internet Movie Database Users. New episodes are released every Saturday at 6pm GMT, with the occasional bonus episode thrown in.
This time, Quentin Tarantino’s Reservoir Dogs.
Following a disastrous botched jewellery heist, what remains of a criminal gang meets at an abandoned warehouse. Unsure of who to trust and unable to determine what went wrong, these violent men quickly turn on one another while navigating a complex web of shifting loyalties.
At time of recording, it was ranked the 76th best movie of all-time on the Internet Movie Database.
Notes:
- Recorded 10th June 2018.
- Note: Darren mistakes The Secret Policeman’s Ball for Miloš Forman’s The Fireman’s Ball. In his defense, he had slightly less research time on this podcast than he normally does.
- Reservoir Dogs at The Internet Movie Database.
- The IMDB 250 as it appeared at time of recording.
- Dade Hayes and Dawn C. Chmielewski at Deadline on the final fate of the Weinstein Company, July 2018.
- Roger Domeneghetti at Sabotage Times on The Secret Policeman’s Ball, which helped establish Miramax on the map, March 2012.
- Rebecca Keegan at Nicole Sperling at Variety on how Harvey Weinstein secured the Best Picture Oscar for Shakespeare in Love, December 2017.
- Jeff Dawson at Empire on the making of Reservoir Dogs, February 1993.
- Christopher Rosen at Entertainment Weekly discusses the time that Wes Craven walked out of the premiere of Reservoir Dogs, April 2017.
- Rebecca Hawkes at The Telegraph on how Reservoir Dogs was banned in the United Kingdom due to violence, January 2017.
- Roger Ebert’s review of Reservoir Dogs at The Chicago Sun-Times, October 1992.
- Roger Ebert’s review of Die Hard at The Chicago Sun-Times, July 1988.
- Andrew Boschert at The Pitt News on the double standard that exists in American popular culture regarding violence and sex, October 2014.
- Eighth Grade director Bo Burnham discusses the double standard when it comes to sex and violence in American cinema with QZ, July 2018.
- Nicholas Schou at The Atlantic on the CIA’s unique relationship with Hollywood, July 2016.
- Tom Secker and Matthew Alford on Medium about how the United States military and intelligence communities have influenced Hollywood, July 2017.
- David Sirota at Salon on how eighties American popular culture created an appetite for violence among the American public, March 2011.
- Simon Parkin at The Guardian on how the military even intersects with the gaming industry, October 2014.
- Ken Eisold at Psychology Today on the unreliability of memory, March 2012.
- Mack Lamoureux at Vice on the distortion of collective memory, August 2015.
- Neuroscience News on how emotion makes memory unreliable, December 2017.
- Malcolm Gladwell discusses the distortion of memory on Revisionist History, May 2018.
- Maggie Astor at The New York Times on the fading of the Holocaust from living memory, April 2018.
- James McAuley at The Washington Post on Poland’s new law criminalising public discussions of complicity in the Holocaust, February 2018.
- Bernard Weinraub at The New York Times on Spielberg’s attempts to record testimony from Holocaust survivors for posterity, November 1994.
- Neil A. Lewis at The New York Times on the controversy around the Smithsonian’s Enola Gay Exhibit, October 1994.
- Eliza Berman and Kenneth Bachor at Time on the actors who benefitted from working with Tarantino, December 2015.
- Quentin Tarantino quoted on Mentorless on getting the best performances from actors, January 2016.
- Stanley Crouch at The Los Angeles Times on the handling of race in the films of Tarantino, October 1994.
- Desiree Bowie at Salon on the complications of being a black Tarantino fan, October 2015.
- Loquacious Muse at MTV on Jason Reitman’s live read of Reservoir Dogs with an all-black cast, February 2012.
- Touré at Time on the complications of using the n-word on stage and screen, October 2011.
- Michael Harriot at The Root on how the Irish became “white” in America, March 2018.
- Spike Lee in Variety objects to Tarantino’s use of the n-word, December 1997.
- Spike Lee discusses his feud with Tarantino at IndieWire, December 2015.
- Jamie Foxx defends Tarantino’s use of the n-word at Yahoo!, July 2018.
- Samuel L. Jackson defends Tarantino’s use of the n-word with The Independent, January 2013.
- Jake Orthwein at Film School Rejects on the philosophy of the Coen Brothers, July 2017.
- Justin O’Brien at Lakehead University on nihilism in Reservoir Dogs, March 2009.
- Michael Madsen discusses the legacy of Reservoir Dogs with The Hollywood Reporter, including the lost Vega Brothers movie, May 2018.
- Quentin Tarantino discusses the Vega Brothers movie with /Film, April 2007.
- Clive Martin at Vice wonders whatever happened to Michael Madsen, July 2014.
- Annalee Glatus at The Carolinian on misconceptions about “the method”, April 2017.
- Robbie Collin at The Telegraph on how Hollywood went crazy for “the method”, May 2016.
- Matthew DeBord at Business Insider on why Californians love In-n-Out Burger, October 2016.
- Lisa Bramen at The Smithsonian on the cult of the In-n-Out Burger, October 2009.
- Katie Jackson at Today on the popularity of mukbang in Korea, February 2018.
- Quentin Tarantino talks to GQ about the links between The Hateful Eight and Black Lives Matter, December 2015.
- Benjamin Lee at The Guardian on Quentin Tarantino’s support of Black Lives Matter, October 2015.
- Dave McNary at Variety on the police boycott of The Hateful Eight, October 2015.
- Quentin Tarantino reflects on From Dusk Till Dawn with Robert Rodriguez at Entertainment Weekly, November 2016.
- Darren discusses meaning, morality and memory in Reservoir Dogs, August 2018.
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