As a piece of popcorn pop art, it has plenty to smile at.

For his eighth film, Tarantino resurrected the super wide-screen 70mm Ultra Panavision format, which was last used in 1966 for the epic Charlton Heston/Laurence Olivier adventure Khartoum.

DCist’s highly subjective and hardly comprehensive guide to the most interesting movies playing around town in the coming week. Ponyo Hayao Miyazaki proves again and again, with each film he makes, that you really don’t need an army of computers to make an incredible animated film, and that hand-drawn animation can be just as dazzling as anything a computer can generate. Western audiences at large were slow to come around to the idea that one…