Paul Thomas Anderson updates on his adaptation of the “stoner private-eye saga” Inherent Vice

Posted 13 years ago

Director Paul Thomas Anderson is a somewhat elusive director when it comes to his source material.  He’s been hard to nail down in terms of what he’ll do next or where he’ll draw the material from, which is probably more...

New poster round-up: G.I. Joe: Retaliation, Stoker, The Master, and Beautiful Creatures

Posted 13 years ago

What do you give the movie that’s in the midst of living through a nine-month postponement? A new poster, that’s what. One with more Channing Tatum than the last one, as you’d expect considering one of the rumored reasons for...

Witness the new logo for The Hunger Games: Catching Fire in this motion poster

Posted 13 years ago

With TWILIGHT mercifully done, we can put or teen girl franchise focus squarely on THE HUNGER GAMES: CATCHING FIRE, the second installment in the series which is slated to hit theaters next year. Facebook premiered the motion poster for the...

Directing round-up: Joe Carnahan teams up with Patrick Wilson; Francis Lawrence to complete The Hunger Games saga

Posted 14 years ago

According to Collider, director Francis Lawrence (CONSTANTINE, I AM LEGEND) is taking on the rest of THE HUNGER GAMES saga.  The filmmaker is currently shooting THE HUNGER GAMES: CATCHING FIRE, starring Jennifer Lawrence and Josh Hutcherson, and has committed to...

Review: A Late Quartet

Posted 14 years ago

PLOT: When one of the members of a world-renowned instrumental quartet learns he is developing Parkinson’s disease, he decides to retire. After his announcement, the four musicians find themselves struggling to make sense of not only their professional lives, but...

Why didn’t Jeremy Renner take the lead in Paul Thomas Anderson’s The Master?

Posted 14 years ago

Remember when Jeremy Renner had the lead in Paul Thomas Anderson’s THE MASTER long before Joaquin Phoenix came along? Or maybe this isn’t really how it was… In an interview with Graffiti With Punctuation, Anderson was asked about Renner’s involvement...

Joaquin Phoenix thinks Oscars are total, utter bullshit

Posted 14 years ago

Actors sure are speaking their minds this week, aren’t they? First Paul Bettany, then Hugo Weaving, and now Joaquin Phoenix. However, Phoenix isn’t bitching about the merits of doing voice-over work– he’s bitching about the awards circuit. In a one...

Experience and Power make up the themes in these new spots for The Master

Posted 14 years ago

THE MASTER hit theaters everywhere today and the consensus of the 87% positive reviews on RottenTomatoes.com is that the movie is smart, powerfully acted, beautifully filmed, and solidly engrossing, The Master extends writer/director Paul Thomas Anderson’s winning streak of challenging...

Scientologists begin their backlash against The Master as it wins honors at the Venice Film Festival

Posted 14 years ago

As THE MASTER wins the Silver Lion for best director and a split Best Actor award for both Philip Seymour Hoffman and Joaquin Phoenix at the Venice Film Festival, angry Scientologists have begun to harass The Weinstein Company with protests...

Review: The Master (TIFF 2012)

Posted 14 years ago

PLOT: A WW2 veteran, turned aimless drifter (Joaquin Phoenix) falls under the sway of the charismatic head of a new religion. REVIEW: The oeuvre of Paul Thomas Anderson has, thus far, had two distinctly different styles, with the first part...

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