Review: `Shorts' could use some adult supervision

The basic structure of "Shorts" — advertised in its title — might make you think Robert Rodriguez has made the kids equivalent of "Pulp Fiction," the fractured narrative classic by his buddy and frequent collaborator, Quentin Tarantino.

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`Blades' Stays on Top With $23 Million

Movie audiences were more interested in light comedy over Easter weekend than in Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez's "Grindhouse," a double-feature ode to bloody exploitation flicks.

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DIRECTOR Robert Rodriguez seems to veer quite happily from splatter violence to children's movies, as in his Spy Kids films. That's not as strange as it may first seem, when you consider that even his "adult" films have an adolescent feel.

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…according to writer/director Robert Rodriguez...FOX is giving him total artistic freedom to make his "Predator" movie

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Barbarella

These days Hollywood generally makes awful movies for far too much money, but it does occasionally come up with something truly wonderful. Sin City was one of those moments, and its director was Robert Rodriguez.

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Grindhouse

You know, news reports would have you believe that this movie was a failure and did not live up to the studios expectations. While it may not have, they needed to take a closer look at what they were offering up here and realize that they landed pretty much where they deserved.

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Grindhouse has been put on hold by the UK distributors. Despite having a June 1st release it seems that Momentum have held the film pending a review of release dates and the plans for the release. Could this mean we'll see the film split in two?

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Sue's Reviews: Blades of Glory and Grindhouse

Anyone with a few extra bucks to spend is in luck – there are some surprisingly good choices at the theater this month.

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Match made in Grindhouse: Rodriguez's undead meet Tarantino's psychopath stuntman in splatter-fest double-header

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Breaking It Down: Grindhouse

This is an article in the continuing series "Breaking It Down", where I will carefully examine a handful of critical elements that go into the making of a feature film that is about to be released in theaters.

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Ryan Rotten for ShockTillYouDrop.com interviews directors Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino on thier new movie "Grindhouse." This combo – wrapped in a tattered little package aptly titled Grindhouse - comes courtesy of none other than Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantin …

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The outlaw director on resurrecting grindhouse and pressing Quentin Tarantino to shoot digital. Sex, violence, murder, and intrigue: Prepare for maximum splatter in April when directors Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez release Grindhouse, their take on low-budget '70s exp …

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It's good to have friends, someone you can trust and who will lend you a hand. In Hollywood, it's more essential -- and far more difficult -- to have friends.

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The 1970s exploitation movie gropes, bites, kicks, slugs, blasts, smashes and cusses its way back to life in "Grindhouse," a "Rodriguez/Tarantino double feature" that lovingly resurrects a disreputable but cultishly embraced form of era-specific film production and exhibition.

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Success has many fathers. And blockbusters have many imitators.

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You've seen the commercials boasting "exclusive" rentals of certain movies at Blockbuster. Why? Blockbuster inked a deal with The Weinstein Company to have exclusive rental rights for their movies.

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How Melbourne brothers Luke and Alix Jackson spent six years and a mere $5,000 making their survival horror splatterfest 'When Evil Reigns'. Also features (in the tradition of Robert Rodriguez) tips for low/no-budget film-makers.

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Best friends since the early '90s, dardevil directors Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez are curently shooting 'Grind House' (due in 2007), a tribute to the zombie romps, slasher flicks, and women-in-prison extravaganzas the two were weaned on.

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