A teenager becomes enamoured with an older woman during the summer of 1973 in Licorice Pizza. While in line for school photos 15-year-old Gary Valentine (Cooper Hoffman) strikes up a conversation with 25-year-old photography assistant Alana Kane (Alana Haim). Despite their ten-year age difference, Gary ends up asking Alana out and the two begin a…
A famous tailor finds his world thrown out of order when he falls a young woman in Phantom Thread. Reynolds Woodcock (Daniel Day-Lewis) is a famous dressmaker in 1950s London, who lives his life to a strict routine, with the help of his sister Cyril (Lesley Manville). On day, Reynolds meets a young waitress named Alma…
Paul Thomas Anderson returns with this adaptation of the novel by Thomas Pynchon. Larry “Doc” Sportello (Joaquin Phoenix) is a private investigator, who is visited by his old flame Shasta Fay Hepworth (Katherine Waterston), who wants help involving her missing boyfriend Mickey Wolfmann (Eric Roberts). Doc’s investigation results in him crossing paths with Lt. Det….
Maverick filmmaker Robert Altman is the subject of this new biographical documentary by director Ron Mann. Told through the words of Altman and his family, Altman chronicles the director’s entire career, from his TV directing work in the 1950s and 1960s, all the way to being the recipient of a lifetime achievement Academy Award a…
Ricky Jay is probably one of the best known magicians working today. He is best known for his slight-of-hand card tricks and he will also be recognizable from his acting roles in films by the likes of David Mamet and Paul Thomas Anderson. Ricky Jay’s career in magic dates back to when he was only…
After making, what I consider to be his masterpiece, There Will Be Blood, Paul Thomas Anderson returns with The Master. The film focuses on a drifter named Freddie Quell (Joaquin Phoenix), who comes across a man named Lancaster Dodd (Philip Seymour Hoffman). Dodd is the founder of a movement called “The Cause,” which some may…
There Will Be Blood sticks out from the rest of Paul Thomas Anderson’s films for the very fact that it is a period piece and that it has an overall darker mood than his previous films. The films features Daniel Day-Lewis as an oil baron, who is consumed by greed over a 24 year period….
