Tonight’s theme for American Idol is ‘Songs from the Movies’ and the musical expert is Quentin Tarantino.  Yeah, exactly, what qualifies Quentin to be mentoring the contestants this week?  Host Ryan Seacrest went as far as to introduce him as the “Legendary Quentin Tarrentino.”  He has had a couple of good films but legendary?

Allison Iraheta – ‘Don’t Want to Miss a Thing’ – She went with Aerosmith’s song from the movie ‘Armageddon.’  I don’t think Allison was on top of this song tonight, but she was very strong.  Maybe I am just so sour on this song for having heard it overplayed for the past decade.  She continues to prove she is remarkably talented for 16.  I get a strong feeling she will be in the top three. Grade: B+

Anoop Desai - ‘Everything I Do’ – WOW! Anoop really brought it and brought the house down in the process. I think everyone and their momma was questioning the song selection, but Anoop brought his best performance of the competition.  He was actually better than Bryan Adams who first did this song for ‘Robin Hood.’  Grade: A+

Adam Lambert – ‘Born to be Wild’ – Song is from ‘Easy Rider.’  Adam is by far the only rocker remaining.  Phoenix is going nuts clapping during Adam’s performance.  Adam can really bring it, but I often wait for the opera version of the song.  I don’t think the background singers are adding much to this, and the performance seemed to be better at the start than at the end.  A very good performance but too much squealing for me.  I was thinking ‘Rocky Horror Picture Show’ before Simon even brought it up.  Grade: A

Matt Giraud – ‘Really Love a Woman’ – He really reminds me a lot of Harry Conick Jr and Justin Timberlake at the same time.  He chose the second Bryan Adams song of the night.  This one from ‘Don Juan de Marco.’  Matt can really sing and made this song modern.  He is more confident performing than in interviews.  One of his better showings this week.  Not as good as last week, but a lot better than two weeks ago.  Randy Jackson has been a much tougher judge than Simon this season. Grade: B-

Danny Gokey – ‘Endless Love’ – We shall see how this goes but I am already doubting the song selection.  Lionel Richie is one of those artists that is hard to duplicate or surpass.  My first instinct is proving right.  Danny has had much better weeks, and in my opinion just had his worst night of the competition.  It was not bad, but Danny has been very good every week so far.  He was good, there has just been better performances tonight. Grade: C+

Kris Allen – ‘Falling Slowly’ – I was not familiar with this song, which is from the film ‘Once,’  but I was very impressed by Allen.  For the first time he showed that he truly has a beautiful voice and is not some high-priced John Mayer clone.  Allen is going to continue to do well.  Right now I would put him in the finals with Adam and Allison. Grade: A

Lil Rounds – ‘The Rose’ – Lil’s hair has grown another 7 inches since last week.  She has gone from dikeville in week one to a full flock of hair here late in the season.  She looks better than she did six weeks ago, I am just afraid she doesn’t sound as good as she did then.  She is not original, unique, or likely to be remembered after she is voted off in the next couple of weeks.  She can sing though.  Grade: C

Winners: Kris Allen, Adam Lambert, Anoop Desai

In the Middle: Allison Iraheta, Matt Giraud

Losers: Danny Gokey, Lil Rounds

Bottom Three (Tomorrow Night): Lil Rounds, Anoop Desai, Matt Giraud

Overall Tarantino has been a pretty good mentor.  For sure better than Randy Travis and Smokey Robinson have been this season.

I think tomorrow night could be the end of the journey for Lil Rounds.