With a critically acclaimed new film to add to a resume full of them, is Paul Thomas Anderson the best Hollywood director of this century?Some great directors consistently deliver work that’s never less than compelling. They might also craft a film that is widely acclaimed or wins numerous awards during the statuette season. There’s an […]
Blu-ray Review – Licorice Pizza (2021)
Licorice Pizza, 2021.Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson. Starring Alana Haim, Cooper Hoffman, Sean Penn, Tom Waits, Bradley Cooper, and Benny Safdie.SYNOPSIS:Licorice Pizza arrives on home video in a Blu-ray + DVD + digital code edition that’s light on bonus feature, although it does include a small poster, if you’re into that sort of thing.There are […]
Movie Review – Licorice Pizza (2021)
Licorice Pizza, 2021.Written and Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson. Starring Alana Haim, Cooper Hoffman, Sean Penn, Tom Waits, Bradley Cooper, Benny Safdie, Maya Rudolph, John C. Reilly, Christine Ebersole, Skyler Gisondo, Mary Elizabeth Ellis, Harriet Sansom Harris, Este Haim, Danielle Haim, Emma Dumont, Joseph Cross, Emily Althaus, John Michael Higgins, Ray Chase, George DiCaprio, Sasha […]
Video Review – Licorice Pizza is good, bad, and problematic
EJ Moreno with a video review of Paul Thomas Anderson’s Licorice Pizza…Paul Thomas Anderson is a prolific filmmaker with years of some of the most amazing cinematic work. Unfortunately, his latest outing, Licorice Pizza, couldn’t reach the heights of his other masterworks. While the film has some positives, critic EJ Moreno feels the weak script […]
Encanto wins Thanksgiving box office, while Gaga brings in the crowds and Licorice Pizza sets indie records
It was a crowded table at the Thanksgiving box-office buffet this weekend, with four new movies jostling for a seat alongside the holdovers, and at the head of proceedings was Disney’s Encanto, although Jason Reitman’s blockbusting ghosts left a trail of slime very close behind it.Encanto, which features the voice of Stephanie Beatriz and songs […]
First trailer for Paul Thomas Anderson’s new film Licorice Pizza
MGM has released a poster and trailer for writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson’s new film Licorice Pizza which tells the story of a teenagers Alana and Gary as they fall in love and grow up in 1970s San Fernando Valley; take a look here…LICORICE PIZZA is the story of Alana Kane and Gary Valentine growing up, […]
