Bullets, bullwhips and beatings produce slo-mo geysers of blood. Pistoleros launch into soliloquies on slavery and the German Siegfried myth. "Django Unchained" is set in Quentin Tarantino's pre-Civil War South. Another indulgent movie from the cinema's reigning junk-genre junkie, "Django" mashes together 1960s Italian "Spaghetti Westerns" and '70s American "Blacksploitation" pictures. Hey, he got away with a fantastical World War II Holocaust revenge picture ("Inglourious Basterds"). Why not a "revenge for slavery" romp? Django is a slave turned bounty hunter, a black man who gets to "kill white folks, and they pay you for it." The film features a couple of Oscar winners - Jamie Foxx in the...
