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Keeping with our recent trend of posting videos, here is the promo for Tarantino XX - a new bluray collection of Quentin Tarantino's first 20 years in filmmaking. With 8 films spread across 10 discs and never before seen extras, those eagerly awaiting the release of Django Unchained can get their education in fast edits, quick depth-laden-and-bathed-in-subtext dialogue and guts galore as QT brazenly dominates his first two decades in Hollywood. What makes this collection unique is that all these films are presented together in one box set which would be unheard of a few years ago given the different studios and distributors involved. But since Miramax sold its film library, this box set contains  films from Warner Bros, Universal, TWC and more. The second bonus disc also contains a 2 hour eight part feature on Tarantino's twenty years of filmmaking which provides some fantastic anecdotes and information. With classics such as Reservoir Dogs, True Romance (screenplay by), Pulp Fiction, Jackie Brown, Kill Bill Vol 1&2, Inglourious Basterds and Death Proof, this box set is worth the upgrade from DVD for QT fans for the exclusive bonus material.

Some will begrudge the inclusion of True Romance despite the film directed by Tony Scott still bearing Tarantino's watermark, and the absence of films such as Natural Born Killers, From Dusk Til Dawn etc. 

However, this box set cleverly puts together the motion pictures which exist within the same universe. Pulp Fiction's Vincent Vega (played by John Travolta) is the brother of Vic Vega (Mr Blonde played by Michael Madsen) in Reservoir Dogs. A film was also talked about featuring the two but Tarantino decided against it given they both died in their previous screen incarnations and the actors had aged since playing these roles. 

Mr White worked with Alabama from True Romance and Donny Donowitz (Eli Roth) aka 'The Bear Jew' from Inglourious Basterds is the father of movie producer Lee Donowitz from True Romance. Kill Bill is a version of Fox Force Five with Mia Wallace - Uma Thurman - playing the title role. Watching the films comprising this set helps confirm connections that have been speculated at and add to the movie universe QT has created.

Watch here, then breathe and enjoy the HD presentation of some of the finest films of the last twenty years.