Grindhouse - 2007

Grindhouse - 2007
Death Proof
Directed by Quentin Tarantino
Starring Kurt Russell, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Zoe Bell, Sydney Poitier (not that one, but his daughter, see it's Sydney not Sidney, and anyway why would you call your daughter after yourself if you're the dad, especially if you were once mega-famous as the only black actor to have an Oscar and a directing career) LOADS of girls
Part of this flawed double-feature exploitation tribute (a modern Flicks (1986) or Movie Movie (1977)) , begins with the Dimension Pictures (not the Weinstein company, but the earlier New World Pictures offshoot headed by the Woolner Brothers) logo, Jack Nitzche's score to Bert I Gordon's "Ron Howard age II does Food of the Gods" - Village of Giants, it has Kurt Russell killing various popsies, all unmemorable, bar Aussie stuntgirl Bell (a tribute to Aussie stuntman Grant Page playing himself in Brian Trenchard-Smith's StuntRock (1978). Unmemorable tat.
The trailers are okay, with Rob Zombie's Werewolf Women of the SS, having lycanthropic fascist dominatrixes created by Udo Kier and Nicolas Cage as FU MANCHU! It makes Harry Alan Towers  and Jess Franco proud, but is not as good as them. Eli Roth's Thanksgiving is an admirable slasher take made in Czech Republic a la PIECES (1982) in Spain.The best,  Edgar Wright's Don't is a marvelous Eurohorror tribute with an all-star Brit cast. Nick Frost as a man-baby called Big Arthur and the sight of Mark Gatiss as Roddy McDowall in The Legend of Hell House are two highlights
Machete, Rodriguez's segment is a modern action trailer, and unmemorable, and his film Planet Terror is shite.
Planet Terror
Directed by Robert Rodriguez
Starring Quentin Tarantino, Bruce Willis, Michael Biehn, Freddy Rodriquez, Rose McGowan, Tom Savini
There's good zombie effects but little else. Even McGowan's shotgun leg is CGI, making it more modern popcorn flick a la Resident Evil than the John Carpenter homage it intends to be.
Two stars.