Winnipeg Free Press - August 20/09
Tarantino: Happy and Inglourious
BASED loosely on Italian director Enzo Castellari’s film Inglorious Bastards (1978), Quentin Tarantino’s first movie since the commercial flop Death Proof is Inglourious Basterds, which debuted at the Cannes Film Festival to mixed reviews. Hoping to re-establish himself as one of Hollywood’s best writer/directors, Tarantino has high hopes for his latest film, which stars Brad Pitt as a guerrilla soldier who hunts down and kills Nazis in occupied France. Tarantino is hoping the actor’s star power and a return to more conventional filmmaking will help resurrect his career.
“A mean or nasty turn of phrase, you ain’t going to forget,” he tells the Times Online reporter Kevin Maher. “But I don’t take it too seriously, because obviously a lot of people are just not that into my s—-.”
Although Tarantino has had his share of bad reviews, the director felt much of the negative press tended to focus on Tarantino the person and not the film. “There was a level where I was being reviewed as much as the movie,” he protested.
Inglourious Basterds opens on Friday.
BlindSearch
WITH Microsoft and Yahoo taking aim at web giant Google, the battle for search-engine supremacy is going to heat up.
While Google controls the majority of the market share and has positioned its brand as the go-to spot for looking up information on the web, the recent partnership between Microsoft and Yahoo is really going to make things interesting.
Do you think Google is evil and wants to control the world? Have you always felt Yahoo is a totally inferior search engine? Are you a slave to Google? Is Microsoft’s new decision-engine, Bing, really going to change the way people search on the web? Take this blind test and see if you have drunk Google’s Kool-Aid or if you really prefer the results the web giant generates. After over 550,000 blind searches on the site, voting on which search engine people prefer has Google at 41 per cent, Bing pulling in 31 per cent and Yahoo in last place with 28 per cent.
Flavortunes lets your guests build your party playlist
OTHER than deciding what type of food to serve and what drinks to offer to your guests, choosing the right music is one of the most important elements to set the mood at a party. While you might think blasting Rod Stewart, Brooks & Dunn or Dance Mix ‘95 is going to help get the party started, your guests might not feel the same way. If you need help planning what to play at your next get-together, Flavortunes will not only let your guests build their own playlist, but also help you send out e-vites and track who is coming to the event and who isn’t.
IF you’re someone with an addictive personality or a professional procrastinator, you are going to want to stay far, far away from Must Pop Words. Pulling together elements of Tetris and Scrabble, Must Pop Words will not only help you test and build your vocabulary, but will help you get through those long days at work when you would rather be on the beach than chained to a desk.
