Film of the week, 9/6-9/13: "Reservoir Dogs"

Reservoir Dogs was filmaker Quentin Tarantino's first film. It was released to the shocked audiences of 1992. Reservoir Dogs was like nothing that anyone had ever seen before. The violent ganster flick was filmed on a low budget of around 3 million dollars. The film starred Harvey Keitel, Michael Madsen, Tim Roth, Steve Buscemi, and Lawrence Tierney. Harvey Keitel was a well established mafia actor from such films as, "Mean Streets" and "Taxi Driver". Aside from him, there was another well established gangster movie star. Lawrence Tierney was the star of the 1945 classic, "Dillinger" as well as several other gangster films of the fourties. Tarantino appears to be giving a tip of the hat to the gangster films of the past as he redefines the genre forever.