Entertainment Weekly interviewed Jackson about playing Stephen in Django Unchained. He plays Calvin’s intensely loyal house slave. He’s essentially the movie’s secondary antagonist.

"Django Unchained" is easily one of the best flicks of 2012, critic Tom Charity says It's a typical Quentin Tarantino gambit: taking two genres and mashing them together In the title role, Jamie ...

One character's last name in Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained provides a connection to a 1970s blaxploitation cinema ...

Django Unchained is a film about love. Three kinds of love, really. There's the romantic love that pulls together two of the main characters: Jamie Foxx's Django who is willing to travel through ...

With “Django Unchained,” writer-director Quentin Tarantino has once again turned history on its head to carry out an audacious revenge fantasy. Whereas “Inglourious Basterds” imagined ...

Leonardo DiCaprio on Calvin Candie in Django UnchainedAs DiCaprio was trying to get into Candie’s head space, he realized that the concept of head space itself was an important aspect of his ...

Which bring us to Django ‘s shortcomings. The gabby King, fey Calvin, and cunning Stephen (Samuel L. Jackson), Calvin’s head house slave, turn out to be far more interesting than Django himself.

With Django Unchained, Quentin Tarantino finally comes of age as a filmmaker. Tarantino's brilliance as a writer and craftsman have always been clear. But even his last picture, the Holocaust ...

‘Django’ to the Extreme: How Panic Attacks and DiCaprio’s Real Blood Made a Slavery Epic Better No one was safe from from harm on Quentin Tarantino's intense and ill-fated shoot.

Calvin Candie doesn’t make it to the end of Django Unchained, but the impact of the character and DiCaprio’s performance stays in the film until the very end.

Leonardo DiCaprio as Calvin Candie Leonardo DiCaprio as Calvin Candie W here Django Unchained is at its most perceptive is in the recognition that violence blunts the moral sensitivities.

The graphic poster for “Django Unchained” (December 25) is spare and actor-free, so we decided to fill in a character guide and an embellished official synopsis–we did read the Quentin ...