4K Ultra HD Film Review

Pulp Fiction (1994) • 4K Ultra HD [Paramount Pictures] — unforgettable characters and wild genre subversions

The lives of two mob hitmen, a boxer, a gangster and his wife, and a pair of diner bandits intertwine in four tales of violence and redemption.

Inspired by Mario Bava’s horror anthology Black Sabbath (1963), Quentin Tarantino and his friend Roger Avary shared writing duties for a screenplay intended to become a three-part short called Black Mask. They soon realised nobody was producing short films in the early-1990s, so Tarantino expanded his own story into what became Reservoir Dogs (1992) and Avary’s “Gold Watch” tale formed part of what became Pulp Fiction. Following the success of Reservoir Dogs, audiences and critics alike were keen to see what this exciting new filmmaker would do next, so Tarantino and Avary holed themselves up in Amsterdam’s Red Light District and blended their ideas into a trio of crime stories intended to subvert the genre’s tropes and cliches.