The Hateful Eight sees Quentin Tarantino directing again, this time it is a Western movie with Samuel L. Jackson, Jennifer Jason Leigh and Kurt Russell.

The film has been nominated for a raft of BAFTA awards such as Best Supporting Actress and Best Original Screenplay.

But how good is the new movie? Here is everything you need to know about The Hateful Eight (18).

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What is it about?

A few years after the Civil War, a group of eight violent, dangerous strangers gather in a stagecoach stopover lodge to escape a battering blizzard.

Bounty hunter John Ruth (Kurt Russell) is taking prisoner Daisy Domergue (Jennifer Jason Leigh) to the town of Red Rock to face justice and he's not going to let anyone get in his way.

But while battling a storm, it's going to be much more difficult than he expected.

Along the road they encounter another bounty hunger, infamous Major Marquis Warren (Samuel L. Jackson).

As the storm overtakes the mountainside, the eight travellers learn that they mightn't make it to Red Rock afterall.

Who is in it?

Samuel L. Jackson plays Major Marquis Warren, Kurt Russell plays John Ruth, Single White Female's Jennifer Jason Leigh plays Daisy Domergue and Pulp Fiction's Tim Roth plays Oswaldo Mobray.

Other stars include Kill Bill's Michael Madsen, Silent Running's Bruce Dern, The Bridge's Demián Bichir, Sons of Anarchy's Walton Goggins, Django Unchained's Zoe Bell and Magic Mike's Channing Tatum.

Is it worth a watch?

3/5

Our film critic David Edwards says: As usual, Tarantino’s film is a magpie’s nest of shiny trinkets lifted from other sources, such as The Great Silence, an Agatha Christie whodunnit and even Mel Brooks’ Blazing Saddles.

And, as you’d expect, all of the above is served up in a stew of misogyny, jolts of shocking violence and plentiful use of the N-word.

The trouble is, despite a thoroughly impressive final 20 minutes, this is a flabby, ungainly movie that suggests a director who’s perhaps become caught up in the myth of his own brilliance.

Meanwhile, Tarantino’s quick-fire dialogue is present and correct, although nowhere near as sharp as the brilliant exchanges in Pulp Fiction or Reservoir Dogs.

The Hateful Eight would have made a decent 90-minute movie but, with a running time of close to three hours, it’s a film to be endured rather than enjoyed.

Where can I buy tickets?

Odeon , Vue and Reel cinemas are now taking bookings for the showings of the film.

You won't find The Hateful Eight at Cineworld cinemas as they objected a deal with Odeon to have the exclusive rights for London's West End.

The movie's distributor, Entertainment Film, will show the film in a 70mm Ultra Panavision presentation and needed the largest cinema and screen possible so the Odeon Leicester Square was chosen.