Licorice Pizza
This week saw the passing of Peter Bogdanovich, whose 1971 masterpiece The Last Picture Show is one of many reference points in Paul Thomas Anderson‘s Licorice Pizza. Just to explain […]
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Phantom Thread
Don’t worry, Phantom Thread has nothing to do with The Phantom Menace. Just like the new Star Wars films. Following the success of There Will Be Blood, writer/director Paul Thomas […]
Boogie Nights
Released in 1997, Paul Thomas Anderson’s Boogie Nights follows Eddie Adams AKA Dirk Diggler (Mark Wahlberg) as he tries to make it in the pornography industry. Set in California in the late ’70s and early […]
Inherent Vice
Chinatown meets China White in Paul Thomas Anderson’s druggy detective mystery – a stonoir, if you will. Inherent Vice is set in 1970s Los Angeles, with the Vietnam War, the Manson Family murders […]
The Master
Philip Seymour Hoffman plays Lancaster Dodd, who is to L Ron Hubbard as Charles Foster Kane is to William Randolph Hearst, as Hynkel is to Hitler, or as The Emperor […]
Screen Goblin 