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With their new album Written & Directed out today - and years of filmic references in their music videos, songs and costumes, including a record label named Foxfive - Black Honey are perhaps music's biggest Quentin Tarantino fans.

Here, frontwoman Izzy B. Phillips tells us about her favourite among his films:

From Dusk Till Dawn

To me, this is a classic B Movie. I want to live inside the saloon. Vampires, the undead sex mutated giant rat creature, what’s not to love…

Pulp Fiction

I always think that it's my favourite but controversially I do kinda lose interest after we move on from Mia Wallace. Don’t get me wrong I could watch Vincent Vega and Jules Winnfield crime busting till the cows come home. This film wins on iconic one liners and the best overdose recovery in the history of film. Not to mention the dancing scene changed my life.

Once Upon A Time In Hollywood

All my mates hate this film but I fucking love it. I feel like it’s Tarantino going down a meta inward spiral. I love the pacing and the way tension is built to the end. The aesthetic is another level and I feel like im gonna have to go re-watch it again now!

Kill Bill

if I had to choose a volume, it would be 2. I love the way women are portrayed in Tarantino movies. Firstly, a female protagonist is kind of rare and then to add to it she’s complex with a history and we never really get to know the whole of her...Kill Bill is the martial arts film to end them all. The scene in the trailer is like feminist poetry. 

Plus...

Special mentions go to True Romance and Natural Born Killers. These are iconic and Tarantino had a hand in writing both of them. I love Alabama in True Romance when she’s covered in her own blood, beaten within an inch of her life and she’s still insane enough to protect Clarence and their stolen drugs.

Natural Born Killer is one of the best romance movies hands down. I think everyone should get married by dropping their blood off a bridge. 

Written & Directed is out now. Read our review. Find out more in our interview with Izzy. 

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