Django Unchained isn’t based on a real story, but it does take elements of real people and events to contort history. Tarantino wrote and directed the drama western. It follows the title character ...

We can think of this small group of slaves as the ancestors of Samuel L. Jackson’s character, Stephen, and we even know some of their names, and the rewards they received for their acts of betrayal, ...

*Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison said recently that Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas reminds him of Samuel L. Jackson’s plantation overseer character Stephen in Quentin Tarantino’s film ...

Simultaneously infuriating and exhilarating—in other words, quintessential Tarantino. Both sides of that debate will find fodder for their arguments in Django Unchained, a (nearly) three-hour revenge ...