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AUDIO: Leaked Harvey Weinstein Tapes Warn Tarantino Of ‘Midnight Phone Call’ From Enraged De Niro

2:50AM Kyle Buchanan | As if suffering through Righteous Kill and a stultifying Letterman Top 10 weren’t career punishment enough for Robert De Niro, the actor has found himself the subject of just-leaked phone calls between Quentin Tarantino and Harvey Weinstein during the making of Jackie Brown — and the conversation paints the supposedly money-grubbing De Niro in a light more unflattering than the entirety of Rocky & Bullwinkle: More »

‘Jackie Brown,’ and Other Glaring Mistakes on the LA Times’s Top 25 Films List

8:46AM STV | There’s a place and time for discussing the inanity of movie lists — usually early January, right when the radius of critics’ annual Top 10 circle jerk is at its widest. But a few prime exhibits pop up throughout the year as well, such as last weekend’s Los Angeles Times feature selecting the top 25 Los Angeles films of the last 25 years. While we wouldn’t begrudge the contributors’ right to close out the late-summer news cycle as energetically as possible (we’ve all seen what happens when John Horn gets bored), the tactical and intellectual errors that occurred along the way are an unfortunate example of zeal gone horribly wrong.