Tag Archives: Paul Thomas Anderson

One Battle After Another review — Rebels without a pause

September 26, 2025 flawintheiris

Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson | Written by Anderson, "inspired by" Thomas Pynchon's Vineland | 141 min | ▲▲▲▲ What we've got here is a new chaotic, action-packed epic from PTA. We haven't seen anything close to this from him since Inherent Vice. That tracks since Anderson's 2014 picture was also adapted from a Pynchon book,… Read More

Academy Award Nominations #Reaction

February 9, 2022 flawintheiris

The nominations for the '22 Academy Awards dropped on Tuesday morning, and as with every Hollywood awards season there were expectations met and expectations dashed. There's also the few naysayers who took to social media to say these awards are antiquated and irrelevant. They groused. They whined. They said, "Who cares?" That question's been asked… Read More

Licorice Pizza review — ’70s nostalgia served on a giant slice

December 30, 2021 flawintheiris

Written and Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson | 133 min | VOD It's an interesting choice by the renowned American filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson, now in his 50s, to look backward. Not just make a film set in the early '70s, when he would've been a baby, and where he grew up — the San… Read More

20 Best Movies on Amazon Prime (From the 20th Century)

May 24, 2021 flawintheiris

I started with Netflix, notorious for having a shallow catalogue of older movies, then went on to Disney's new service, Star. Now I'm having a look at Prime, which actually boasts a bigger variety of films 21 years or older. Here's some of the best available now: Aguirre: The Wrath of God (1972) This is Werner… Read More

Phantom Thread review — An elegantly twisted romantic drama

January 21, 2018 flawintheiris

Written and Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson | 130 min Having seen what is reportedly the final performance of Daniel Day-Lewis on screen, I can say with some confidence he goes out having maintained a standard to which few others can compare. He's earned three Academy Awards, his creative instruments have been honed through years… Read More

Pixels review — It’s pretty bad, folks

July 30, 2015 flawintheiris

Directed by Chris Columbus, written by Tim Herlihy and Timothy Dowling, based on a short film by Patrick Jean There was no way I could miss the critical drubbing Pixels received when it opened last weekend. Reviews were practically unanimous in their negative assessment of the film, from one side of the critical community to… Read More

Second Screenings — and more on Birdman

February 1, 2015 flawintheiris

A couple days ago there was an interesting piece in the Guardian about whether critics should see movies more than once, and whether that was fair to viewers who, for the most part, are likely to only see a movie one time. You can go here to read it. I think of myself primarily as… Read More

Inherent Vice review — Messily brilliant or simply a mess?

January 10, 2015 flawintheiris

Written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, from the Thomas Pynchon novel Inherent Vice is the kind of movie you walk into and it envelops you. You're visiting a world while you're in the cinema. It may not be one you understand. The denizens may speak strange languages and enact peculiar rituals. The universal narrative… Read More

The Master review

October 4, 2012 flawintheiris

Written and directed by Paul Thomas AndersonThe release of a PT Anderson movie is an event, every single time. Every one since his first, Hard Eight; Boogie Nights, Magnolia, Punch Drunk Love and There Will Be Blood. With this collection, Anderson can stake a claim as the finest American filmmaker working today.So, what to make of his… Read More