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It’s no secret that Quentin Tarantino gets inspiration from a variety of movies and pays homage to them in his own works, and Reservoir Dogs’ most shocking scene is inspired by one disturbing but acclaimed movie. Reservoir Dogs introduced the audience to Quentin Tarantino’s narrative and visual style, as well as to some of his most used tricks, but it also caused controversy due to one specific scene starring Mr. Blonde (Michael Madsen), which in turn showed viewers the type of violence they could expect from Tarantino’s works.

Reservoir Dogs follows a group of thieves assembled and led by crime boss Joe Cabot (Lawrence Tierney) and his son Eddie “Nice Guy” Cabot (Chris Penn), whose plan to steal thousands of dollars from a jewelry store goes wrong. The failure of the heist and the deaths of some of the group’s members by the police ended up...

In 1996, Tupac Shakur was the crown prince of West Coast rap. Traveling the road paved by hip-hop pioneers like Dr. Dre, Ice Cube, Snoop Dogg and Ice-t but also blazing his own way as an unequivocally talented but complicated provocateur, the All Eyez on Me artist had emerged as a boldly honest, startlingly prescient voice poised to change the game forever. Which he did, only he didn't live to see it. On Sept. 7, 1996, Shakur, who would have turned 50 years old this summer, arrived in Las Vegas to attend a Mike Tyson fight with Death Row Records co-founder Marion "Suge" Knight at the MGM Grand. His bodyguard Frank Alexander had arrived the day before to ensure...

It's been nearly 17 years since Tupac Shakur's tragic death, and now, someone from his closest camp has also passed.  Frank Alexander (known as "Big Frank"), the former bodyguard of the late rapper, was found dead in his Murrieta, Calif., home Sunday night after police responded to a 911 call regarding a possible suicide, according to a report by Murrieta Patch. The cause of death has not been released. Alexander was reportedly found with a gunshot wound to the head.  "The death is being investigated to determine if indeed it was a suicide," Murrieta Police Lt. Tony Conrad told Patch. "It does appear to be a suicide, but the Coroner's Office will make...