Hosted by Andrew Quinn and Darren Mooney, this week with special guest Darcie Faccio, 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 second Saturday at 6pm GMT, with the occasional bonus episode between them.
This week, Quentin Tarantino’s Kill Bill, Vol. 1.
A brutal mass murder at a wedding in El Paso, Texas, leaves a sole survivor: an anonymous pregnant woman, a former assassin who tried to escape her life of murder and mayhem for something more tranquil and serene. However, her old life was not finished with her. Four years later, the would-be bride wakes up and embarks on a roaring rampage of revenge driven by a single objective. She is going to Kill Bill.
At time of recording, it was ranked 151st on the list of the best movies of all time on the Internet Movie Database.
Show Notes:
- Recorded 25th June 2025.
- Kill Bill, Vol. 1 on the Internet Movie Database.
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- Frances Morton interviews Quentin Tarantino for Metro Mag about his television work, January 2016.
- Quentin Tarantino talks to The Los Angeles Times about directing an episode of CSI, May 2005.
- Quentin Tarantino explains that his movies are so violent because “it’s so much fun”, April 2015.
- Sam Wasson at Los Angeles Times reflects on Quentin Taratino’s perpetual coolness, October 2022.
- Adam White at The Independent reflects on Quentin Tarantino’s involvement with Steven Spielberg’s Director’s Chair, August 2020.
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- Uma Thurman talks to Time about her life, her career and her involvement with Quentin Tarantino, September 2003.
- Quentin Tarantino talks to BBC about delaying production on Kill Bill to accommodate Uma Thurman, October 2003.
- Quentin Tarantino reads excerpts of Kill Bill to Robert Rodriguez during production of Three Rooms, 1994.
- Mike Fleming Jr. at Deadline looks at how the Lord of the Rings trilogy came together, July 2021.
- Drew McWeeny at Polygon looks at the various alternate versions of Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings that almost happened, February 2021.
- Quentin Tarantino and Uma Thurman talk to IGN about the production and the development of Kill Bill, April 2004.
- The Irish Examiner reports on the decision to split Kill Bill into two parts for its release, July 2003.
- Quentin Tarantino explicitly states his intention to retire after making ten films in a roundtable with The Hollywood Reporter, November 2012.
- Quentin Tarantino talks to Film4 about writing and developing Kill Bill, October 2003.
- Margaret Heidenry writes at Vanity Fair about the history of the vanity title card, March 2015.
- Michael Madsen talks to The Hollywood Reporter about the aborted Vega Brothers film, April 2020.
- Robert Richardson talks to American Cinematographer about his work on Kill Bill, October 2003.
- Chi-Yun Shin writes at Jump Cut about the importance of branding the “Asia Extreme” film collection, Spring 2008.
- Carlos Aguilar at The Los Angeles Times writes about the legacy and the success of Park Chan-wook’s Oldboy, August 2023.
- Daniel Martin writes about Audition as effectively the birth of the “Asia Extreme” branding in Extreme Asia, 2015.
- Donnie Yen talks to The Eagle Online about how Quentin Tarantino helped bring The Iron Monkey and Hero to America, July 2004.
- Neil Gaiman talks to Cranky Critic about how he came to translate Princess Mononoke, 1997.
- Steve Alpert writes at Polygon about bringing on Neil Gaiman to script the dub for Princess Mononoke, May 2020.
- Simon Reynolds writes at Digital Spy about Quentin Tarantino’s opinion of digital filmmaking, November 2012.
- Kelly Scanlon at Far Out Magazine reports on Quentin Tarantino’s abiding affection for Sin City, January 2024.
- Darren Mooney considers Death Proof as a key film in Quentin Tarantino’s filmography, August 2019.
- Quentin Tarantino talks to Newsweek about the making of Kill Bill, October 2003.
- Martin Scorsese considers how art became “content” at Harpers, March 2021.
- Roger Rosenblatt at Time argues that 9/11 ushered in “the end of irony”, September 2001.
- Charles Fleming at The Los Angeles Times reports on the premature announcement of “the end of irony”, October 2001.
- Kevin S. Bright talks to Digital Spy about how 9/11 affected Friends, October 2018.
- Jennifer Keischin Armstrong at Town and Country Magazine considers how Sex and the City responded to 9/11, December 2020.
- Michael Patrick King talks to The Sydney Morning Herald about making Sex and the City after 9/11, August 2002.
- Amy Zalman describes “the War on Terror” as “the first postmodern war” in World Policy Journal, Winter 2006.
- Alex Hess writes at Esquire about how Kill Bill pushed Quentin Tarantino into full-blown postmodernism, October 2023.
- Jonathan V. Last at The Wall Street Journal considers Hollywood’s reaction to the Iraq War, October 2003.
- Kyle Wiggins talks to Boston University about the revenge narrative in American popular culture, August 2018.
- Sean Loughlin at CNN reports on the decision to rebrand chips as “freedom fries”, March 2003.
- Tyler Sharp at Loudwire reports on the songs radio stations were “encouraged not to play” after 9/11, September 2024.
- Jonathan Freedland argues in The Guardian that the 1990s ran from the fall of the Berlin Wall to the destruction of the World Trade Centre, April 2017.
- Damon Linker at The Week argues that 9/11 marked the true beginning of the twenty-first century, September 2021.
- ICV2 reports on the animation that Production I.G. provided for Kill Bill, March 2003.
- Quentin Tarantino talks to Time about the blood in Kill Bill, September 2002.
- Jason Bailey writes at The Dissolve about the spiritual subtext of Pulp Fiction, November 2013.
- Quentin Tarantino talks to Robert Zemeckis for The Los Angeles Times about the theme of redemption in his work, March 1995.
- Darren Mooney writes at Escapist Magazine about the morality of both Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction, November 2020.
- Kenneth Turin at The Los Angeles Times laments what he perceives of a culture of nihilism in nineties cinema, November 1998.
- Manohla Dargis at L.A. Weekly criticises “the new nihilism”, December 1998.
- Bethy Squires writes at Vulture about the moral complexity of Kill Bill, April 2023.
- Uma Thurman talks to The New York Times about the accident on the set of Kill Bill that damaged her spine, February 2018.
- Quentin Tarantino talks to Deadline about Uma Thurman’s comments, February 2018.
- Matt Fernandez at Variety reports on Uma Thurman’s statement that she does not blame Quentin Tarantino for the accident on the set of Kill Bill, February 2018.
- Kevin Jagernauth at The Playlist reports on Diane Kruger’s response to allegations about Quentin Tarantino’s behaviour on the set of Inglourious Basterds, February 2018.
- Quentin Tarantino talks to GQ about his inclusion of his foot fetish in his films, September 2021.
- Motoko Rich writes in The New York Times about the wave of contemporary American films fascinated by Japan, January 2004.
- Lucy Liu writes in The Washington Post about being labelled “a dragon lady” in Kill Bill, April 2021.
- Michelle Yeoh talks to Town and Country about her life and career, and narrowly missing out on a role in Kill Bill, August 2022.
- Jack Whatley at Far Out Magazine considers why the key fight sequence in Kill Bill, Vol. 1 changes from colour to black and white, July 2021.
- Kevin Jagernauth at The Playlist reports on why Warren Beatty turned down the role of Bill in Kill Bill, November 2016.
- Courtney Keller writes at MovieWeb about how Quentin Tarantino tried to convince Kevin Costner to play Bill in Kill Bill, May 2025.
- Sean O’Connell at CinemaBlend reports on how Quentin Tarantino considered casting Bruce Willis as Bill in Kill Bill, December 2019.
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