Paul Thomas Anderson was making serious movies long before he began making “serious” movies, ponderous works of certified art like There Will Be Blood and The Master. His earliest pictures, like Hard ...

"Inherent Vice" is a stoner "Chinatown" as directed by Wes Anderson, if Wes got sick midway through it and the darker Paul Thomas Anderson took over for the last acts. Actually, only one Anderson - ...

Liam Gaughan is a film and TV writer at Collider. He has been writing film reviews and news coverage for ten years. Between relentlessly adding new titles to his watchlist and attending as many ...

Why don’t Bond villains just shoot Bond? Why didn’t the Empire plug that troublesome exhaust port? Why didn’t the Eagles fly Frodo to Mordor? There’s a tedious school of movie criticism that asks such ...

Anew Thomas Pynchon novel? Only a scant two years after the publication of his megalithic (and stylistically megalomaniacal) 1,000-plus-page opus, "Against the Day"? And -- perhaps most confounding of ...

Inherent Vice is set in 1970 in a fictitious Southern California town, Gordita Beach (mentioned in Pynchon’s 1990 novel, Vineland, and bearing a resemblance to Manhattan Beach), where the protagonist, ...

Jack is a filmmaker, screenwriter, and novelist with a passion for the entertainment industry. After graduating from film school, he devotes most of his free time to directing short films or writing ...