Fuck You I'm From Austin Film Talk

Fuck You I'm From Austin Film Talk  didn't just start shooting our mouth off last week. I've been writing about films for many many moons. Long before George Lucas threatened to do away with film completely even. Soooo....back in the late 80's and early 90's, I was the Video Detour editor and writer at Detour Magazine in Dallas. You could still access great films at the Inwood Theatre  and anything at the much loved Lakewood Theater was fun to watch. I chose to write the video column back when every home had a VCR to try and keep up the fight and not forget wonderful films like the ones you have to drive a thousand miles across Austin, TX to see. That is, if they're ever even bothered to be shown. Here's the first of many soon-to-come articles I wrote about great films and great filmmakers straight outta the old film vault a.k.a. my Rubbermaid shed out in Apache Shores. I moved aside the original super 8 film stock and workprint for 'Mi Nombre is Reb...

What better film to launch Fuck You I'm From Austin Film Talk than Quentin Tarentino's 'Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood?'  Right? Have you seen it yet? It's a great movie chock full of movie shit for movie lovers. Like Ms. Lizzo sez, "I been waitn' for this one!" It's a buddy story, really. Two old school Hollywood types, Rick Dalton (Leonardo DiCaprio)  and Cliff Booth (Brad Pitt)  literally tear up the screen. They're getting the Fuck You I'm From Austin Film Talk 2019 hottest on screen chemistry prize. Dang! I've never gone for the pretty boys in life, but, sheee-it, Pitt winds it up all over the place. I could've crawled up on that roof all day long to help him tweak his antennae. And a hot guy with a dog, a pit bull. That's a dealmaker for an old pit bull rescuer, boy howdy. But, more on Brandy, the pit bull later on. Vanity Fair's article on Brandy manages to diss on Rick and Cliff. They're not nice people. Oh...