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 ...

*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 ...

"He’s this way now, maybe he’s worse now," Ellison said of Thomas' character in the interview last week.

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 ...