Hollis Robbins

Quentin Tarantino’s incendiary film on slavery has garnered two Oscar nominations, including best picture, and it has sparked a lot of controversy. What happens when Tarantino, the director of Pulp Fiction and Inglorious Basterds, takes on the horrible institution of slavery with a paean to the spaghetti western?

A look at the movie The Help, based on the best-selling book of the same name by Kathryn Stockett, about African- American maids working in white households in Jackson, Mississippi during the early 1960s.