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The Rise of Paul Thomas Anderson: A Living Legend

July 4, 2025 by admin

Ahead of One Battle After Another, Simon Thompson takes a deep dive into the rise of filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson… Paul Thomas Anderson is a filmmaker with a career that feels like a study in irony. He’s an arthouse filmmaker, but possesses Hollywood insider status, seemingly able to tell his stories even in the most […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Featured, Movies, Simon Thompson, Top Stories Tagged With: Boogie Nights, Cigarettes and Coffee, Hard Eight, Inherent Vice, Liquorice Pizza, Magnolia, One Battle After Another, Paul Thomas Anderson, Phantom Thread, Punch Drunk Love, The Master, There Will be Blood

10 Essential Private Eye Movies

February 10, 2021 by Tom Jolliffe

Tom Jolliffe offers up 10 essential private investigator movies… The humble Dick. I mean P.I of course. Private Investigator. They often operate on a perilous high wire between law and unlawful. When the police have given up or are hamstrung by the book, the P.I can go that extra mile, or indeed focus entirely on […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: Angel Heart, Blood Simple, Chinatown, city hunter, Inherent Vice, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Klute, The Big Sleep, The Last Boy Scout, The Long Goodbye, the maltese falcon, The Nice Guys, Vertigo, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Who's Harry Crumb

King of the Gypsies: 40 Years of Eric Roberts

May 23, 2018 by Tom Jolliffe

Tom Jolliffe looks at the career of Eric Roberts after 40 years on the silver screen… I’ve long championed a certain cinematic underdog. An actor who burst onto the scene full of promise. A character actor with an edge and the ability to play tightly wound and/or complexly simple-minded characters with aplomb. The other day […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: Best Of The Best, Christopher Nolan, Eric Roberts, Inherent Vice, King Of The Gypsies, Paul Thomas Anderson, Star 80, The Dark Knight, The Specialist

Should Critics Watch Films Twice?

February 15, 2015 by Simon Columb

 Simon Columb on whether critics should watch films twice… Initially, many were surprised at Inherent Vice’s lack of nominations during the awards season. Its directing pedigree of Paul Thomas Anderson, combined with an outstanding cast (Joaquin Phoenix, Josh Brolin, Owen Wilson, etc) seemed like it would be a shoe-in for the big-guns. Instead, not only […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Simon Columb Tagged With: Inherent Vice, Interstellar, The Grand Budapest Hotel

Big Hero 6 fends off Kingsman: The Secret Service at the UK box office

February 5, 2015 by Gary Collinson

UK box office top ten and analysis for the weekend of Friday 30th January to Sunday 1st February 2015… Disney’s animated Marvel adaptation Big Hero 6 finally made it to this side of the Pond this past weekend, with the film fending off the challenge of Kingsman: The Secret Service to take top spot with […]

Filed Under: Gary Collinson, Movies, News, UK Box Office Tagged With: American Sniper, Big Hero 6, Ex Machina, Inherent Vice, Into the Woods, Kingsman: The Secret Service, Les Contes D’Hoffmann, Paddington, Taken 3, The Theory of Everything

Movie Review – Inherent Vice (2014)

February 4, 2015 by Gary Collinson

Inherent Vice, 2014. Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson Starring Joaquin Phoenix, Josh Brolin, Katherine Waterston, Owen Wilson, Benicio Del Toro, Eric Roberts, Reese Witherspoon, Michael Kenneth Williams, Jena Malone, and Martin Short. SYNOPSIS: In 1970, drug-fueled Los Angeles detective Larry “Doc” Sportello investigates the disappearance of a former girlfriend. Reviewer’s note: I have no interest […]

Filed Under: Movies, Reviews, Rohan Morbey Tagged With: Benicio Del Toro, Eric Roberts, Inherent Vice, Jena Malone, Joaquin Phoenix, Josh Brolin, Katherine Waterston, Martin Short, Michael Kenneth Williams, Owen Wilson, Paul Thomas Anderson, reese witherspoon

Movie Review – Inherent Vice (2014)

January 15, 2015 by Robert Kojder

Inherent Vice, 2014. Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson Starring Joaquin Phoenix, Josh Brolin, Katherine Waterston, Owen Wilson, Benicio Del Toro, Eric Roberts, Reese Witherspoon, Michael Kenneth Williams, Jena Malone, and Martin Short. SYNOPSIS: In 1970, drug-fueled Los Angeles detective Larry “Doc” Sportello investigates the disappearance of a former girlfriend. “What is Inherent Vice?” “I don’t […]

Filed Under: Movies, Reviews, Robert Kojder Tagged With: Benicio Del Toro, Eric Roberts, Inherent Vice, Jena Malone, Joaquin Phoenix, Josh Brolin, Katherine Waterston, Martin Short, Michael Kenneth Williams, Owen Wilson, Paul Thomas Anderson, reese witherspoon

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