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The latest buzzy release on Netflix is far from the usual Adam Sandler comedy or true crime documentary. This weekend’s autoplay title is instead a 15-minute collaboration between director Paul Thomas Anderson and musician T...
The latest buzzy release on Netflix is far from the usual Adam Sandler comedy or true crime documentary. This weekend’s autoplay title is instead a 15-minute collaboration between director Paul Thomas Anderson and musician T...
In years past, the Academy closely tied the Best Director Oscar to the Best Picture winner, but that’s not always the case anymore. What’s your prediction for this category?
Well, folks, we did it. 2017 is over. We survived. It wasn’t easy. At times, it felt like nothing but horrible things happened for a solid 12 months. Heroes died, scandals rocked the entertainment community, American politic...
After the willfully obtuse ‘The Master’ and the deliberately convoluted ‘Inherent Vice’, writer/director/genius Paul Thomas Anderson has returned with a surprisingly straightforward cinematic effort in R...
Set in early 1970s Los Angeles and very much indebted to the auteur-driven masterpieces that came out of Hollywood in that era, ‘Inherent Vice’ is a stoner detective art film. You might even be tempted to call it the f...
Twelve days into the lucrative month and we’re just now getting our first December blockbuster. The question is: How will this end-of-year Biblical epic stack up to 2014’s first, Darren Aronofsky’s wild and out t...
When December comes around, the studios start rolling out their big awards hopefuls for the season. Whether any of these movies actually win Oscars or not, they might be worth watching.
Perhaps due to a desire not to draw attention away from the Oscars, or perhaps simply due to a shortage of worthwhile product to release, the Hollywood studios have chosen to go light on notable new Blu-ray releases this week. How...
Over the past few weeks, my little home in New England has been buffeted by a couple of major winter storms. In the worst of these, I had to dig my way out of my house through a basement window because all the doors were blocked b...
The only new films that I’d care to see this week aren’t playing anywhere near me… for now. I’m certain that the majority of you are limited to the same wide releases that I am. They’re not awful opti...
Expectations mount for Paul Thomas Anderson’s latest drama about damaged people in a kinda, sorta history of Scientology, while Zack Snyder tackles the ‘Man of Steel’ for a second reboot.