At the 96th Academy Awards, Diane Warren failed to win Best Original Song for the fifteenth time in fifteen tries. Shockingly, “The Fire Inside,” written for the movie about the guy who did not in fact come up with the idea for hot Cheetos, did not win. On the other hand, I’m willing to wager… Read More The Warren Index: Will They Win a Competitive Oscar Before Diane Warren?
Dir. Quentin Tarantino. Starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad Pitt, Margot Robbie This is a recent release at the time of publication, so I’ll throw a generic “spoilers” alert up for it. There was a friend of Bob Rafelson’s named Donna Greenberg, who recalled a story about a weekend morning when she was at home with her… Read More Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019)
Dir. Craig Gillespie. Starring Margot Robbie, Sebastian Stan, Allison Janney I, Tonya reminds me of Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri. They begin similarly. Both of them are absolutely terrified that you might not get the point, and so they begin with this awful lectorial pedantry. Three Billboards starts with the billboards, unveiling them interminably (Too… Read More I, Tonya (2017)
Seeing Things Secondhand 