Movie reviews: The Hateful Eight, Last Hijack, Bolshoi Babylon

The best of what’s hitting Irish cinemas this week.

Quentin Tarantino’s homage to the Western genre, The Hateful Eight (18s), opens in fine style, as a stagecoach lumbers its way through the snow towards the town of Red Rock with bounty hunter John Ruth (Kurt Russell) and captured killer Daisy Domergue (Jennifer Jason Leigh) on board.

They’re joined en route by another bounty hunter, Marquis Warren (Samuel L Jackson), and Red Rock’s newly appointed sheriff, Chris Mannix (Walter Goggins), but when the quartet are overtaken by a blizzard they are forced to seek shelter at a remote cabin. There they encounter another quartet — hangman Oswaldo Mowbray (Tim Roth), Mexican Bob (Demián Bechir), Joe Gage (Michael Madsen) and General Smithers (Bruce Dern).