FILM CHOICE

Pulp Fiction (1994)

5STAR, 11pm

FOLLOWING his ultra-hip debut Reservoir Dogs, writer-director Quentin Tarantino delivered an equally confident and more ambitious second film. Multiple storylines interweave as characters from one thread bump into those of another, introducing us to a brutal Los Angeles milieu populated by gangster junkies, honest thieves and tender murderers. Mob boss Marsellus Wallace (Ving Rhames) entrusts low-rent hit men Vincent Vega (John Travolta) and Jules Winnfield (Samuel L Jackson) to collect a stolen briefcase. He also pays off ageing boxer Butch Coolidge (Bruce Willis) to throw his next fight. The fates of these characters collide after Marsellus asks Vincent to entertain his wife Mia (Uma Thurman) in his absence.