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I am trying to remember the first time that I saw a Quentin Tarantino movie. It was his debut RESERVOIR DOGS, and I first saw it at a late night screening session at my local multiplex in either 1993 or 1994. The movie had been denied a video release in the UK, so film chains like Odeon and I think Virgin Cinemas at the time, took it upon themselves to show the film late at night to a nation of filmgoers who literally couldn't get enough of this exciting new filmmaker. Then, just a couple of months later PULP FICTION arrived on the scene, and that movie changed everything. The film won the Palme D'or, and the following year garnered a few Oscar nominations to boot. I fell in love with the film, and could not wait to get back to the cinema to see it again the following weekend.

Then came JACKIE BROWN in 1997, a film that, while not really disliking it, felt that it didn't quite live up to the man's previous two bohemoths. Then, after a long break, came KILL BILL, parts one and two, which out of the two, I prefered the second one, and then last year's GRINDHOUSE flick DEATH PROOF, which actually turned out to be a non-event over here in the UK really. So, Quentin had to get movie with another project. After lackluster box-office success with GRINDHOUSE, and a critical mauling, the director had to amp it up and deliver the goods. And quick.

Well, quick he was, and with a period of just over nine months since completing the screenplay, INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS was debuting at the Cannes Film Festival, and competing for the Palme D'or, exactly 15 years after Pulp scored the big one in 1994. Expectations were high...

Here's one that has literally come from nowhere. It seems that Guy Ritchie is/has brought on his SNATCH main man Brad Pitt to star as the villian Professor James Moriarty in his Warner Brothers based SHERLOCK HOLMES movie.

Britain's Daily Mirror reports:

"It was an oversight in the film not to make a bigger deal about Moriarty. He is mentioned as Holmes' arch enemy, but the bosses wanted Guy to make more of him," a source told the newspaper.

"Jude Law (who plays Dr Watson) and Robert Downey Jr (Holmes) have already shot their scenes. But now that 10 extra days have been added to shoot the new ones, they may be called back for a day or two."

Brad Pitt, Will Ferrell and Jonah Hill are all set to lend their voices to the new animated film OOBERMIND for Dreamworks Animation.

Variety reports that Ferrell replaces Robert Downey Jr. in the title role of a supervillain who imagines all his dastardly dreams coming true after defeating good-guy rival Metro Man (Pitt), only to find life quite boring without an adversary. To fill the void, Oobermind creates a new superhero, Titan (Hill), who also wants to be bad, forcing Oobermind to switch sides.

The film is due out in the fall of 2010.