Quentin Tarantino’s newest film, Django Unchained, has been billed and advertised as a Western, but that’s not entirely accurate.  It has horses and gunfights and a Sam Peckinpah mixed with Sergio Leone style, but it’s not really a Western.  For one thing, it takes place in the South, from Texas to Mississippi to Tennessee.  For another, it’s really a slavery revenge story.  And though it was generally enjoyable, it made me wish that Tarantino had chosen to make a true Western, if only to show what he could really do by sticking to the genre. Continue reading →