Django Unchained

Well, look, it's just good practice to ignore the Golden Globe nominations whenever possible. This year is no exception: Salmon Fishing in the Yemen is in the running for a Best Picture award. Not that Django Unchained isn't entertaining, but it got a massive amount of good news when the Globe nominations were announced. It's minor Quentin Tarantino, to be sure, another revenge flick in a long line of them. Freed slave Django (Jamie Foxx) goes on a warpath with a German bounty hunter (Christoph Waltz), culminating in a lot of bloodshed over Django's wife (Kerry Washington). Great fun in spots, a little heavier on the n-word than it really needs to be to get any point across, and not as tightly spun as Tarantino's scripts are when they're really cooking, Django Unchained may get some consideration here and there, but it's far from a Best anything.