Tag: ***1/2; three-and-a-half

I, Tonya (2017)

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I, Tonya (2017)

I don’t really give much thought to Tonya Harding.  To be honest, there really isn’t much to think about.  I know the bare bones of her 25 year-old scandal which I hardly paid attention to even then.  I know she was tossed out of the United States Figure Skating Association over an assault on Nancy […]

| December 9, 2017
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Baby Driver (2017)

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Baby Driver (2017)

For a young fellow like Baby, music is the milk of life.  Mixed and remixed, culled from the ambient noise of human motion and refitted into a soundtrack that guides his every step and every action, life has a rhythm and a composition that he will not deny himself.  When he walks down the street, […]

| June 28, 2017
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The Oscar Nominees: Florence Foster Jenkins (2016)

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The Oscar Nominees: Florence Foster Jenkins (2016)

You’re supposed to be singing about the voices of spring, not the eruption of a volcano. – Shemp Howard It is clear early on that Florence Foster Jenkins really doesn’t know the difference.  She was a terrible singer whose unenviable singing voice emitted squawks comparable to a goose passing bricks instead of eggs.  During World […]

| February 2, 2017
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