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Sleaze City.(Grindhouse)
With the three-hour-and-eleven-minute "Grindhouse," the writer-directors Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez have put together an entire evening's entertainment devoted to the violent schlock movies and decrepit theatres that they loved as kids and never stopped loving. "Grindhouse" is a single film with no intermission, but it includes two new features and such divertissements as trailers for ridiculous imaginary pictures ("Werewolf Women of the S.S."), ads for revolting food at local restaurants, and artifacts of down-at-the-heels moviegoing from decades ago. At climactic moments in the two features--say, just as the hero and the heroine are about to get it on--the ...
- Two much?: A double bill, directed by Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino,...
- Newspaper article from: Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL) April 6, 2007 700+ words
...Quentin Tarantino/Robert Rodriguez double bill "Grindhouse...85-minute features, "Planet Terror" by Rodriguez and Tarantino's more...stray, gristly pieces of "Planet Terror," but Rodriguez's attempts to make the...
- Movie Review: Grindhouse - Zombie Terror: Rodriguez creates post-apocalyptic...
- Newspaper article from: Columbus Dispatch (Columbus, OH) April 6, 2007 700+ words
...allowance and know this: Planet Terror is a fantastic zombie...Director and writer Robert Rodriguez (Spy Kids, Sin City...Screenwriting 101, but Rodriguez and his actors manage...exercise. In fact, Planet Terror proves expertly cast...including Freddy Rodriguez as an El ...
- Tarantino, Rodriguez salute sleaze: Directors team up for 'Grindhouse,' a...
- Newspaper article from: AZ Daily Star (Tucson, AZ) April 5, 2007 700+ words
...theaters in the 1970s. Rodriguez's "Planet Terror" features a girl...A good friend of Rodriguez, Trejo has appeared...have a part in "Planet Terror," he does pop up...Machete," in which Rodriguez plays a maniac who...
- `Shorts' director Rodriguez does families, felons
- News wire article from: AP Worldstream DAVID GERMAIN August 21, 2009 700+ words
...a seesaw career in which Rodriguez veers from family fare such...complete turnabout from Rodriguez's previous flick, 2007's Planet Terror, his violent, gory zombie...reinvigorates the other for him, Rodriguez, 41, said in an interview...
- Tarantino, Rodriguez deliver a 1-2 punch of blood, guts & mayhem.
- Newspaper article from: Orange County Register (Santa Ana, CA) April 5, 2007 700+ words
...He explained that he and Rodriguez had been poolside for hours...and downtown movie houses. Rodriguez, who previously directed...was a kid. His new film, "Planet Terror," is a tip of the hat to...term "grindhouse?" ROBERT RODRIGUEZ: Quentin answers that one...
- Rodriguez off to the future.
- Magazine article from: Daily Variety Hayes, Dade February 18, 2009 700+ words
Robert Rodriguez is set to reteam with Dimension...future society. Most of Rodriguez's filmography-has borne...including "Sin City," the "Planet Terror" half of "Grindhouse...Weinstein noted his ties with Rodriguez date back to the 1996 release...
- ROBERT RODRIGUEZ TO DIRECT 'BARBARELLA'.
- Press release article from: PR Newswire May 22, 2007 700+ words
...22 /PRNewswire/ -- Robert Rodriguez ("Planet Terror," "Sin City," "Spy Kids...limitless,'" commented Robert Rodriguez. "I love this iconic character...generation of moviegoers." Rodriguez is working with writers Neal...
- "Shorts" Story is Cast -- Casting is Complete and Principal Photography Begins...
- Press release article from: Business Wire May 30, 2008 700+ words
...Shorts," being directed by Robert Rodriguez (the "Spy Kids" trilogy) from his own screenplay. Rodriguez is also producing the film with...upcoming "Changeling"), Rebel Rodriguez ("Planet Terror"), and Jake Short and Jolie...
