From USA Today: Police unions in New York, Philadelphia and Los Angeles have already called for a boycott of Tarantino films—his latest, The Hateful Eight, lands on Christmas Day—and now the New Jersey State Police Benevolent Association has joined the shame-on-Tarantino chorus. Tarantino is under pressure because of inflammatory remarks he made at a protest against police brutality in New York last weekend, in which he suggested some cops who shoot civilians are ‘murderers’ and he stands ‘with the murdered.’ I’m all for freedom of speech, but I have to side with the police unions on this one.  Maybe it’s just a publicity stunt on Tarantino’s part (if so, it’s working).  Maybe he genuinely feels that way.  I don’t know. Perhaps Tarantino has been influenced by another well-known instigator who often panders to liberal politicians and celebrities: Chicago priest-activist Father Michael...(Read Full Post)