And Paying Customers Are Saying 'No Thanks', I'll Go See Avatar3 Instead!'

Now that the political scene in the contemporary United States looks like an unending string of military PR coups for the Trumpian right at home and abroad, it’s appropriate that Paul Thomas Anderson’s spectacular, mysterious counterculture epic One Battle After Another – with Leonardo DiCaprio as a clueless, dishevelled ex-revolutionary – should consolidate its current position as one of the leading movies of this awards season: winning four Globes including best musical or comedy and best director for Paul Thomas Anderson – whose fluency, productivity and pure technique and ambition are arguably making him America’s pre-eminent film-maker. 

And all those accolades mean nothing, if the potential audience says 'Yawn! Not another progressive wish-fulfillment snoozefest!'  and goes to see something more worthy instead.

Yes, But That's Exactly What Exactly What They Want To Prevent...

A row over Disney changing the words to a classsic song for the remake:

Someone else wrote: 'It makes sense that the villain say those things. Maybe instead of changing the lyrics, teach kids to think and reflect about those topic so they can develop critical thinking.'

Oh dear me, no. That will never do....