#DjangoUnchained -- a pygmy review: Most directors arrive on the scene already aflame, pouring all their powers into their early work, and then, like a candle, fall spent, sputter and die. And while the 49-year-old #QuentinTarantino is by no means old, he already has 20 films under his belt. But rather than showing signs of slowing down, chickening out, or playing it safe, Tarantino is that rare filmmaker who is actually getting better with age. "Django Unchained" is pure cinematic bliss, yet another deliriously enjoyable, if no less controversial, revenge fantasy melding the preposterous hilarity of #BlazingSaddles with the blood spurting abandon of #SamPeckinpah's #TheWildBunch. The excesses, as par for Tarantino's course, are certainly lavish and outsized--square pegs in cinematic round holes were this any other filmmaker, but since it is Tarantino at the helm, they fit snug as an f-ing bug in a blood soaked rug. If you don't think violence and comedy can also be beautiful poetry, you've not watched enough Quentin Tarantino.

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