Birthday's to share this week : 27th November-3rd December 2016.

Do you celebrate your Birthday this week?

Lucy Liu does on 2nd December - check out my tribute to this Birthday Girl turning 48, at the end of this feature.

Do you also share your birthday with a well known, highly regarded & famous Actor or Actress; share your special day with a Director, Producer, Writer, Cinematographer, Singer/Songwriter or Composer of repute; or share an interest in whoever might notch up another year in the coming seven days? Then, look no further! Whilst there will be too many to mention in this small but not insignificant and beautifully written and presented Blog, here are the more notable and noteworthy icons of the big screen, and the small screen, that you will recognise, and that you might just share your birthday with in the week ahead. If so, Happy Birthday to you from Odeon Online!

Sunday 27th November

• Kathryn Bigelow - Born 1951, turns 65 - Director | Producer | Writer
• Robin Givens - Born 1964, turns 52 - Actress | Producer
• William Fichtner - Born 1956, turns 60 - Actor | Producer
• Sharlto Copley - Born 1973, turns 43 - Actor | Producer  

Monday 28th November

• Randy Newman - Born 1943, turns 73 - Composer | Singer | Songwriter
• Joe Dante - Born 1946, turns 70 - Director | Producer | Actor | Editor
• Ed Harris - Born 1950, turns 66 - Actor | Producer | Director | Writer
• Judd Nelson - Born 1959, turns 57 - Actor  | Producer | Writer
• Alfonso Cuaron - Born 1961, turns 55 - Director | Producer | Writer | Editor | Cinematographer
• Ryan Kwanten - Born 1976, turns 40 - Actor
• Mary Elizabeth Winstead - Born 1984, turns 32 - Actress | Producer

Tuesday 29th November

• Anna Faris - Born 1976, turns 40 - Actress | Producer | Singer
• Joel Cohen - Born 1954, turns 62 - Director | Producer | Writer | Editor
• Tom Sizemore - Born 1961, turns 55 - Actor | Producer | Writer
• Andrew McCarthy - Born 1962, turns 54 - Actor | Director
• Don Cheadle - Born 1964, turns 52 - Actor | Producer | Director | Writer | Singer
• Lucas Black - Born 1982, turns 34 - Actor  

Wednesday 30th November

• Ridley Scott - Born 1937, turns 79 - Director | Producer
• Terrence Malick - Born 1943, turns 73 - Director | Producer | Writer
• David Mamet - Born 1947, turns 69 - Director | Producer | Writer
• Mandy Patinkin - Born 1952, turns 64 - Actor | Singer
• David Yates - Born 1963, turns 53 - Director | Producer
• Ben Stiller - Born 1965, turns 51 - Actor | Producer | Director | Writer | Singer
• Mark Foster - Born 1969, turns 47 - Director | Producer | Writer
• Gael Garcia Bernal - Born 1978, turns 38 - Actor | Director | Producer | Writer  

Thursday 1st December

• Woody Allen - Born 1935, turns 81 - Director | Writer | Actor
• Larry Charles - Born 1956, turns 60 - Director | Producer | Writer
• Jeremy Northam - Born 1961, turns 54 - Actor | Singer
• Bette Midler - Born 1945, turns 71 - Actress | Producer | Director | Singer
• Zoe Kravitz - Born 1988, turns 28 - Actress  

Friday 2nd December

• Lucy Liu - Born 1968, turns 48 - Actress | Producer | Director  

Saturday 3rd December

• Julianne Moore - Born 1960, turns 56 - Actress | Singer
• Daryl Hannah - Born 1960, turns 56 - Actress | Producer
• Amanda Seyfried - Born 1985, turns 31 - Actress | Singer
• Jean-Luc Godard - Born 1930, turns 86 - Director | Producer | Writer | Actor | Editor | Cinematographer
• Brendan Fraser - Born 1968, turns 48 - Actor | Producer

Lucy Alexis Liu was born in Jackson Heights, Queens, New York City to mother Cecilia who worked as a biochemist and father Tom Liu who was a civil engineer and sold digital clock pens. Her parents came separately from China via time in Taiwan before meeting in New York. She has an older brother Alex and an older sister Jenny. Liu learned Mandarin at home and began learning English from five years of age. She attended the public Joseph Pulitzer Middle School in Jackson Heights and graduated from Stuyvesant High School in New York in 1986. From there she attended New York University before moving to the University of Michigan from where she graduated with a Bachelors Degree in Asian languages and cultures.

While in her final year at the University of Michigan she scored the lead role in a college production of 'Alice in Wonderland' and her performance was hailed a great success. Spurned on by this, she decided to pursue more acting opportunities. In 1990 she auditioned for 'Miss Saigon' on Broadway. She made her stage debut in 'Fairy Bones' in 1992. Her break into television came in 1991 with an episode on 'Beverly Hills 90210' with a string of television appearances following throughout the '90's including 'L.A. Law', 'Home Improvement', 'Hercules : The Legendary Journeys', 'ER', 'Nash Bridges', 'The X-Files', 'NYPD Blue', on 22 episodes of 'Pearl' and then she scored a role in the main cast of 'Ally McBeal' which for Liu ran for 72 episodes between 1998 and 2002.

Liu's big screen debut came in the Honk Kong production of 'Rhythm of Destiny' in 1992, with a short 25 minute film, 'Protozoa' following for Director Darren Aronofsky. A small part in 'Bang' came before 'Jerry Maguire' with Tom Cruise, 'Gridlock'd' with Tim Roth, 'City of Industry' with Harvey Keitel, 'Flypaper' with Vincent D'Onofrio, 'Payback' with Mel Gibson, 'True Crime' with Clint Eastwood and 'Play It To The Bone' with Woody Harrelson and Antonio Banderas seeing out the decade.

'Shanghai Noon' opened up the new decade with Jackie Chan and Owen Wilson, followed by the big screen adaptation of the late '70's television series 'Charlie's Angels' with Liu appearing next to Drew Barrymore and Cameron Diaz as Alex Munday - one of three Angels of the title. The film made US$264M and spawned a sequel in 2003 - 'Charlie's Angels : Full Throttle' in which Liu reprised her role, with that film bringing in US$259M. 

'Hotel' followed for Director Mike Figgis, and then 'Ballistic : Ecks vs Sever' in 2002 which was critically panned and a commercial disaster, subsequently appearing on many 'most hated films' and 'worst ever movie' lists. That same year year came 'Cypher', and then 'Chicago' with Richard Gere which raked in six Academy Awards plus another 49 award wins and a further 121 nominations together with a Box Office haul of US$307M. 

'Kill Bill Volumes 1 and 2' for Director Quentin Tarantino followed in 2003 and 2004 with Liu playing head of the Tokyo Yakuza O-Ren Ishii. '3 Needles', bounty hunter autobiography 'Domino' for Tony Scott, 'Lucky Number Slevin' with Bruce Willis, 'Rise : Blood Hunter', and then the Dreamworks animated smash hit 'Kung Fu Panda' to which Liu would lend her voice talents as Master Viper  - a role she would reprise in 2011 in 'Kung Fu Panda 2', in 2016 in 'Kung Fu Panda 3' and reportedly in the upcoming 'Kung Fu Panda 4' which has been announced. Liu also lent her voice talents to the character of Silvermist in five DisneyToon Studios productions of 'Tinker Bell' in 2008, 2009, 2010, 2012 and 2014 - all direct to DVD releases.

During the decade there were also further television show appearances on the likes of 'Futurama', 'King of the Hill', 'Game Over', 'The Simpsons', 'Sex and the City', 'Ugly Betty', 'Cashmere Mafia' and 'Dirty Sexy Money'.

'Nomads', 'Detachment', 'The Trouble With Bliss' and 'The Man with the Iron Fists' bring us up to date in terms of live action films. Since then there has been Liu's recurring role as Joan Watson on televisions 'Elementary' opposite Jonny Lee Miller's Sherlock Holmes in this modern day retelling of the Sherlock Holmes mysteries set in New York. The series has so far run for 103 episodes over five seasons and has picked up five award wins along the way and another eighteen nominations. There has also been 'Southland' and 45 episodes across three seasons of the television series spin off 'Kung Fu Panda : Legends of Awesomeness' running from 2011 through to 2016 so far. Next up is 'Future World' due in 2017 Directed by and starring James Franco.

All up Liu has 88 Acting credits to her name, three as Director and three as Producer. She has garnered fourteen award wins and another 28 nominations so far in her career.

When she's not working in film and television Liu works as an artist across several media showcasing her skills as a painter, photographer and collage artist. She attended the New York Studio for drawing, painting and sculpture from 2004 to 2006 and through a number of exhibits since has donated the profits to UNICEF. She works across other charitable organisations too including breast cancer research and education, as an ambassador for UNICEF, she supports gay and lesbian marriage equality and the Human Rights Campaign. She speaks Mandarin, Italian, Spanish, some Japanese and English of course. In August 2015 Liu welcomed to the world her first child - a boy Rockwell Lloyd born via a gestational surrogate.

Lucy Liu - busy, busy, busy; TV, Film, live action and animation featuring lots of voice work; keeps fit with rock climbing, skiing and horse riding; is proficient in the martial art of Kali-Eskrina-Silat (knife and stick fighting); is an acclaimed artist; is a spiritualist and is interested in all things metaphysical; and sits on the US Committee of 100 forging stronger links between the US and Greater China. Keep doing what you're doing Lucy and we'll keep watching - Happy Birthday to you, from Odeon Online.

-Steve, at Odeon Online-

Birthday's to share this week : 13th-19th November 2016

Do you celebrate your Birthday this week?

Zoe Bell does on 17th November - check out my tribute to this Birthday Girl turning 38, at the end of this feature.

Do you also share your birthday with a well known, highly regarded & famous Actor or Actress; share your special day with a Director, Producer, Writer, Cinematographer, Singer/Songwriter or Composer of repute; or share an interest in whoever might notch up another year in the coming seven days? Then, look no further! Whilst there will be too many to mention in this small but not insignificant and beautifully written and presented Blog, here are the more notable and noteworthy icons of the big screen, and the small screen, that you will recognise, and that you might just share your birthday with in the week ahead. If so, Happy Birthday to you from Odeon Online!

Sunday 13th November

• Whoopi Goldberg - Born 1955, turns 61 - Actress | Producer | Writer | Singer
• Frances Conroy - Born 1953, turns 63 - Actress | Singer
• Joe Mantegna - Born 1947, turns 69 - Actor | Producer | Writer | Director
• Art Malik - Born 1952, turns 64 - Actor
• Steve Zahn - Born 1967, turns 49 - Actor | Singer
• Gerard Butler - Born 1969, turns 47 - Actor | Producer | Singer 

Monday 14th November

• Paul McGann - Born 1959, turns 57 - Actor | Director
• Josh Duhamel - Born 1972, turns 44 - Actor
• Olga Kurylenko - Born 1979, turns 37 - Actress  

Tuesday 15th November

• Shailene Woodley - Born 1991, turns 25 - Actress
• Edward Asner - Born 1929, turns 87 - Actor | Producer | Singer
• Yaphet Kotto - Born 1939, turns 77 - Actor | Writer
• Sam Waterston - Born 1940, turns 76 - Actor | Producer
• Roger Donaldson - Born 1945, turns 71 - Director | Producer | Writer
• Jonny Lee Miller - Born 1972, turns 44 - Actor  

Wednesday 16th November

• Griff Rhys Jones - Born 1953, turns 63 - Actor | Writer | Producer | Television Personality
• Maggie Gyllenhaal - Born 1977, turns 39 - Actress | Producer  

Thursday 17th November

• Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio - Born 1958, turns 58 - Actress | Singer
• Sophie Marceau - Born 1966, turns 50 - Actress | Writer | Director
• Rachel McAdams - Born 1978, turns 38 - Actress
• Zoe Bell - Born 1978, turns 38 - Actress | Stuntwoman | Producer
• Martin Scorsese - Born 1942, turns 74 - Director | Producer | Actor | Editor
• Danny DeVito - Born 1944, turns 72 - Actor | Writer | Producer | Director | Singer
• Roland Joffe - Born 1945, turns 71 - Director | Producer | Writer  

Friday 18th November

• Delroy Lindo - Born 1952, turns 64 - Actor | Producer
• Owen Wilson - Born 1968, turns 48 - Actor | Producer | Writer
• Damon Wayans Jnr. - Born 1982, turns 34 - Actor | Writer
• Chloe Sevigny - Born 1974, turns 42 - Actress  

Saturday 19th November 

• Kathleen Quinlan - Born 1954, turns 62 - Actress
• Meg Ryan - Born 1961, turns 55 - Actress | Producer | Director
• Jodie Foster - Born 1962, turns 54 - Actress | Director | Producer
• Charlie Kaufman - Born 1958, turns 58 - Writer | Producer | Director
• Jason Scott Lee - Born 1966, turns 50 - Actor
• Adam Driver - Born 1983, turns 33 - Actor

Zoe Bell was born on Waiheke Island, New Zealand to mother Tish, a nurse, and father Andrew Bell a doctor. She grew up on the island, off Auckland, and studied gymnastics as a young age, and at fifteen tae kwon-do. Being an active kinda gal, she also took part in dance, high diving, scuba diving and athletics activities. She attended the Auckland Girls Grammar School, and then the co-educational public Selwyn College, also in Auckland. She has a younger brother Jake, and a foster brother Leonhard, who is living back in his native Germany. Her career in the film and television stunt business kick started in 1992 when her father treated a stuntman for a head injury. With a contact phone number given by the injured patient, she landed her first stunt job on the long running New Zealand medical soap opera 'Shortland Street', by jumping out of a running car. 

This led to regular work in 'Hercules : The Legendary Journeys' from 1995-1999, and then 'Xena : Warrior Princess' from 1998-2001. Both series were filmed in New Zealand, and in time Bell graduated to be stunt double for lead Actress Lucy Lawless. In between time she did stunt work on a number of television shows including 'The Chosen', 'Young Hercules', 'Jacksons Wharf', 'Amazon High' and 'Jack of All Trades'.

Her breakout stunt work came as double for Uma Thurman in Quentin Tarantino's 'Kill Bill : Volumes 1 and 2'. This in turn led to her stunt doubling for Sharon Stone in 2004's 'Catwoman' where she performed a high fall of over 200 feet. More stunt work followed on J.J.Abrams 'Alias' and in movies 'Poseidon' and 'Penny Dreadful'. Another gig with Quentin Tarantino followed with his collaboration with Robert Rodriguez on the 'Grindhouse' double feature in both 'Planet Terror' and 'Death Proof' in which Bell receives both Acting and stunt credits. In 'Death Proof' Zoe Bell plays stuntwoman Zoe Bell who rides on the bonnet of a 1970 Dodge Challenger at full speed  holding on with just two leather straps, whilst being pursued by mad bad ageing Stuntman Mike (Kurt Russell) in his 'death proof' Hollywood stunt car, intent on killing her and her two other travelling companions. Truly memorable!

Four episodes on 'Lost' in both acting and stunt roles followed in 2008 with 'Bitch Slap' marking the start of a busy 2009 which saw Bell coordinate stunts, choreograph fight scenes, perform stunt work and act too on that film. 'Angel of Death', 'Gamer' with Gerard Butler, and the roller derby 'Whip It' for Drew Barrymore all saw acting credits, before a return to Quentin Tarantino with dual roles in 'Inglorious Basterds' performing stunt work for Diane Kruger and Melanie Laurent. More stunt work followed on 'The Proposal' for Sandra Bullock, and 'The Final Destination' saw out the decade.

Straight to DVD 'Game of Death' with Wesley Snipes came next in 2012, with 'The Baytown Outlaws' and 'Django Unchained' for Quentin Tarantino again coming that same year and all in acting roles. So too were 'Hansel and Gretel : Witch Hunters' with Jeremy Renner and Gemma Arterton in the title roles, and then 'Oblivion' with Tom Cruise. A stunt credit on 'Iron Man 3', and then acting credits on 'Raze', 'Hawaii Five-O', 'Mercenaries', as Six-Horse Judy in Quentin Tarantino's 'The Hateful Eight' and 'Camino' saw out 2015.

This year there has been the Hollywood themed thriller 'Douglas Brown', lakeside horror thriller 'Freshwater', Sci-Fi drama 'Paradox' with short films 'No Touching' and 'Miner' both in Post-Production and 'Unspoken : Diary of an Assassin' currently filming. All up Bell has 35 Acting credits to her name, 24 stunt work credits, and seven as Producer. She has so far accumulated five award wins and nine other nominations for both her stunt work and her acting roles.

Zoe Bell - affectionately known as 'Zoe the Cat'; has stunt doubled for some of the best Actresses in the business; is now considered as Quentin Tarantino's stunt muse; is grounded, keeps it real, speaks her mind and has successfully transitioned from playing parts behind the scenes doubling up as someone else to playing the part on her own merits in front of the camera - whilst still performing her own stunts no matter what. As tough as nails! Happy Birthday to you Zoe, from Odeon Online.

-Steve, at Odeon Online-

Birthday's to share this week : 22nd - 28th March 2015.

Do you celebrate your Birthday this week?

Quentin Tarantino does on 27th March - check out the tribute to this Birthday Boy turning 52, at the end of this feature.

Do you also share your birthday with a well known, highly regarded & famous Actor or Actress; share your special day with a Director, Producer, Writer, Cinematographer, Singer/Songwriter or Composer of repute; or share an interest in whoever might notch up another year in the coming seven days? Then, look no further! Whilst there will be too many to mention in this small but not insignificant and beautifully written and presented Blog, here are the more notable and noteworthy icons of the big screen, and the small screen, that you will recognise, and that you might just share your birthday with in the week ahead. If so, Happy Birthday to you from Odeon Online!

Sunday 22nd March

• Reece Witherspoon - Born 1976, turns 39 - Actress | Producer | Singer
• William Shatner - Born 1931, turns 84 - Actor | Producer | Writer
• Matthew Modine - Born 1959, turns 56 - Actor | Producer | Director | Writer
• M. Emmet Walsh - Born 1935, turns 80 - Actor
• Bruno Ganz - Born 1941, turns 74 - Actor
• Stephen Sondheim - Born 1930, turns 85 - Composer | Songwriter | Writer
• Andrew Lloyd Webber - Born 1948, turns 67 - Composer | Songwriter | Writer | Producer

Monday 23rd March

• Michele Monaghan - Born 1976, turns 39 - Actress
• Catherine Keener - Born 1959, turns 56 - Actress | Producer

Tuesday 24th March

• Jessica Chastain - Born 197, turns 38 - Actress | Producer
• Lara Flynn Boyle - Born 1970, turns 45 - Actress
• Kelly LeBrock - Born 1960, turns 55 - Actress
• Keisha Castle-Hughes - Born 1990, turns 25 - Actress
• Curtis Hansen - Born 1945, turns 70 - Director | Producer | Writer

Wednesday 25th March

• Paul Michael Glaser - Born 1943, turns 72 - Actor | Producer | Director
• Elton John - Born 1947, turns 68 - Singer | Songwriter | Composer | Producer
• Aretha Franklin - Born 1942, turns 73 - Singer | Actress | Producer
• Sarah Jessica Parker - Born 1965, turns 50 - Actress | Producer

Thursday 26th March

• Keira Knightley - Born 1985, turns 30 - Actress | Singer
• Martin Short - Born 1950, turns 65 - Actor | Producer | Writer | Singer
• James Caan - Born 1940, turns 75 - Actor
• Alan Arkin - Born 1934, turns 81 - Actor | Writer | Producer

Friday 27th March

• Quentin Tarantino - Born 1963, turns 52 - Writer | Director | Producer | Actor
• Michael York - Born 1942, turns 73 - Actor

Saturday 28th March

• Vince Vaughn - Born 1970, turns 45 - Actor | Producer | Writer
• Nick Frost - Born 1972, turns 43 - Actor
• Brett Ratner - Born 1969, turns 46 - Director | Producer
• Richard Kelly - Born 1975, turns 40 - Writer | Producer | Director
• Michael Newell - Born 1942, turns 73 - Director | Producer
• Lady Gaga - Born 1986, turns 29 - Singer | Songwriter | Writer | Producer | Actress
• Dianne Weist - Born 1948, turns 52 - Actress

Quentin Jerome Tarantino was born in Knoxville, Tennessee to mother Connie McHugh a nurse - aged 16 at the time of Quentin’s birth, and father Tony Tarantino - an American/Italian Actor and Musician. Quentin’s parents separated before he was born. At age four the young Quentin relocated to Torrance, California with his mother . , . and later to Harbor City - a Los Angeles neighbourhood. Here he attended Flemming Junior High School and then Narbonne High School in Harbor City for the first year but ultimately dropped out of school at age fifteen to attend full time acting classes at the James Best Theater Company in Toluca Lake. After two years, however, he became bored with the acting school and so left, landing a job at ‘Video Archives ’in Manhattan Beach where he met fellow colleague, movie geek and future collaborator Roger Avery.

Later on while attending a Hollywood party he met Lawrence Bender who encouraged Tarantino to write a screenplay which led to his Directing debut in 1987 with ‘My Best Friend’s Birthday’. The final reel of film stock was mostly destroyed during editing in a fire that ripped through the lab, but the screenplay was later further adapted to create the foundation for ‘True Romance’.






Fast forward to 1992, and Tarantino’s first Hollywood film ‘Reservoir Dogs’ was shown at the Sundance Film Festival. It was an overnight sensation and the stuff of movie legend which instantly propelled QT into the limelight. Having written the dialogue heavy screenplay in less than four weeks, his friend Bender dispatched it to Director Monte Hellman who assisted in the funding process to bring the story to the big screen with Harvey Keitel jumping on board as Co-Producer and taking an Actor credit too.

With ‘True Romance’ optioned for the big screen too, this arrived in cinemas in 1993, and next up his base story for ‘Natural Born Killers’ was further developed by a team of screenwriters and then Directed by Oliver Stone, with credit given to QT for the storyline. Already QT was flavour of the month, if not the year, and offers began flooding in, including the chance to Direct ‘Speed’ and ‘Men in Black’ but instead he decamped to Holland and wrote the screenplay for ‘Pulp Fiction’.

‘Pulp Fiction’ wowed audiences and critics the world over, and for his efforts he won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay and got the nod for Best Director as well as five other nominations including Best Picture. He also won the prestigious Palme D’Or Award at the Cannes Film Festival to top it all off. After this came his collaboration with three other Directors including friend Robert Rodriguez on ‘Four Rooms’ which was met with less glowing reviews.

‘From Dusk till Dawn’ came next which was Directed by Rodriguez but for which QT wrote the script and took an acting role whilst launching the big screen career of one up & coming George Clooney. The film spawned two sequels and most recently a television series. As the 90’s closed out he Directed his next feature film - a tribute to the Blaxpoitation Films of the 60’s and 70’s with ‘Jackie Brown’ with those stars of yesteryear - Pam Grier and Robert Forster

As the new decade came in QT hunkered down to write his tribute to the Japanese/Western inspired revenge flick ‘Kill Bill’ starring at its lead - Uma Thurman. With an initial running time of over four hours he decided to release this over two volumes, and so ‘Kill Bill : Volume 1’ was released in the latter half of 2003 and ‘Kill Bill : Volume 2’ in the first half of 2004. He collaborated with Rodriguez again on 2005’s ‘Sin City’ for which he took a ‘Guest Director’ credit.

His partnership with Rodriquez continued in their dual project in 2007 releasing their tribute to 70’s and early 80’s ‘Grindhouse Cinema’ with the release of ‘Grindhouse’ - two films released as a single package with specially filmed movie Previews separating the two movies. ‘Planet Terror’ was Directed by Rodriguez and ‘Deathproof’ by QT. Not huge commercial successes but garnered positive audience reviews for followers of the genre(s). As the decade closed out, QT released his next film - an alternative take on the outcomes of WWII following the exploits of a rogue group of Jewish American guerrilla soldiers, with 'Inglorious Basterds' which at the time became QT's greatest Box Office success at a global take of US$321M and hit #1 at the Box Office worldwide. He garnered two Academy Award nominations here for Best Original Screenplay and Best Director.

2012 brought his tribute to spaghetti westerns and the slave trade of the American deep south with a resurrection of the 'Django' character from the 60's and 70's with his release of 'Django Unchained', Starring Jamie Foxx, Leonardo DiCaprio and acting stablemate Samuel L. Jackson, this film superseded 'Basterds' as QT's greatest commercial success with a haul of US$425M and won him the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, which he also won at the Golden Globes and BAFTA's.

Coming toward the end of 2015 is 'The Hateful Eight', another Western, but not linked to 'Django'. Starring Samuel L. Jackson, Kurt Russell, Michael Madsen, Tim Roth, Bruce Dern, Channing Tatum, and Walton Goggins with Jennifer Jason Leigh and Zoe Bell, this all star ensemble cast combined with a harsh Wyoming Winter, raging blizzards, bounty hunters, and a confined space are sure to give us a QT experience not to be missed.

Tarantino has so far 23 Writer credits to his name, thirty Actor credits, twenty Producer credits and sixteen Director credits as well as his credited abilities as Cinematographer and his control over the Soundtrack of his film which in themselves have become a touchstone. He has two Academy Award wins for his Screenplays for 'Pulp Fiction' and 'Django Unchained' and three other nominations, he has two Golden Globe wins for his Screenplays of 'Pulp Fiction' and 'Django Unchained' and three other nominations, and the same haul for the BAFTA's as for the Golden Globes. All up this amounts to 122 award wins and 103 other nominations.

He has been romantically linked to Mira Sorvino, Sofia Coppola, Julie Dreyfus and there have been rumours and speculation also about Uma Thurman whom he refers to as his 'muse'. He is not a believer in guns, violence and drugs even though his films feature drug use and often stylised violence with extreme acts mostly occurring off-camera. He does not believe that violence portrayed on film spills over into society. So much has been written and recorded about QT's rise to fame in the last twenty years and the undeniable impact he has had on modern cinema, that I cannot possibly do it justice herein.

And so, Quentin Tarantino - multi-talented cinematic auteur, always pushing the boundaries, trademark film maker, keeping it real, outspoken, wildly energetic, deeply passionate and a walking encyclopedia of all things film and television - we love what you do, await eagerly for your next offering and will keep watching as long as you keep writing and making movies - and long after that too! Happy Birthday to you from Odeon Online.

-Steve, at Odeon Online-