“One Battle After Another”, in theaters September 26th, is the 10th narrative directorial feature film from 11-time Academy Award nominee Paul Thomas Anderson. It’s kinda crazy that Anderson has yet to win an Oscar considering he’s regarded by many as one of the great filmmakers of our time. A year after his first movie “Hard […]
Three-time Best Actor Oscar winner Daniel Day-Lewis has said “Phantom Thread” will be his final film. If that’s true, this is quite a way to go out. His performance as ’50s London fashion designer Reynolds Woodcock isn’t as monumental as his Abraham Lincoln portrayal in 2012’s “Lincoln”. But once again, Day-Lewis immerses himself completely into […]
“Inherent Vice” is writer/director Paul Thomas Anderson’s follow-up to 2012’s overrated “The Master”. The only appreciation I had for that film were the performances of stars Joaquin Phoenix and particularly the late Phillip Seymour Hoffman. The rest was an unfocused and overly complicated mess. That same description can be used to describe “Inherent Vice”, which […]