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...about the Bride (Uma Thurman), a hit woman who had been "jetting around the world killing human beings and being paid vast sums of money" as a member of the Deadly Viper Assassination Squad--DIVAS for short. In Vol. 1 she went straight, got left for dead in the slaughter of her wedding party and, years later, began to take revenge on the killers: the rest of the DIVAS and their charismatic boss, Bill (David Carradine). Vol. 2 finishes the tale as the Bride tracks down Bill's brother Budd (Michael Madsen) and one-eyed Elle (Daryl Hannah) before...
...exacting curves of Uma Thurman’s outer mouth headline a marvelous cast of lips at the heart of Tarantino’s brazen and torrential work, which opens nationwide today. Under the lens of Robert Richardson, an emerging master of the close-up, Thurman’s lips star in Vol. 2 as though they were themselves a separate character. Indeed, an entire subplot could be drawn merely among the players’ lips, which Tarantino leaves under scrutiny through his final scene...
Meanwhile, the last year has also witnessed Lazarus-like returns by several formerly struggling A-listers like Demi Moore and Uma Thurman (not to mention the current governor of California), none of whom was able to deliver box office results equal to their reputation in Hollywood...
...some accounts, actor-producer Michael Douglas, 59, ruggedly handsome on film, became downright old, especially next to his high-def-defying spouse Catherine Zeta-Jones, 34. Even the thirtysomethings had their problems. Renee Zellweger's lightly blotchy red face showed through her makeup. And gorgeous fashion model turned actress Uma Thurman took a hit: the blush on those high cheekbones looked exaggerated and clownlike...
While the award for Most Violent Film Ever has been recently handed off to Mel Gibson, Quentin Tarantino certainly provides his fair share of splattered glory in last year’s instant midnight-movie classic. Uma Thurman first fights Vivica A. Fox, then Buck (who likes to…rhyme), then eighty eight Japanese mobsters (including a blood-craving, mace-twirling schoolgirl), and finally Lucy Liu. The story’s second (and supposedly better) half has been postponed until April 16, so make sure to experience this first sanguineous volume on the big screen. Tickets...