Hard Eight (1996) Director: Paul Thomas Anderson Writer: Paul Thomas Anderson Cast: Phillip Baker Hall, John C. Reilly, Gwyneth Paltrow Hard Eight, the meticulously crafted first feature from Paul Thomas Anderson (Boogie Nights, Punch Drunk Love, There Will be Blood), is completely and unpredictably engrossing. From the very beginning, when Sydney (Phillip Baker Hall) […]
Brian Raftery’s film criticism book Best. Movie. Year. Ever.: How 1999 Blew Up the Big Screen has had many pop culture pundits gazing twenty years back to 1999 as a creative pinnacle of modern cinema. Frankly, I don’t fully buy the claim that the year was anything special, as many of the examples cited as […]
Duration 1h 35m Rating (UK) 15 Source of story An original screenplay Director Paul Thomas Anderson Writers/Script Paul Thomas Anderson Starring Adam Sandler, Emily Watson, Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Luis Guzmán, Mary Lynn Rajskub, Elevator Pitch: Barry Egan is the owner of a small wholesaler of novelty bathroom equipment operating from an industrial unit, in a […]
Originally published in Sight and Sound; London Vol. 10, Iss. 12, (Dec 1, 2000): 16.
I think I know why, at the end of The Master, Lancaster Dodd sings to Freddie Quell that “I’d like to get you, on a slow boat, to China.” Unfortunately, interpreting meaning might be stupid. At the beginning of the movie, and the end of World War II, Freddie and his fellow sailors are having (slightly […]
Ben Phillips & Matt Waters are sick to death of Oscar contenders so have decided to get their spy on instead, examining how the Mission: Impossible, Bourne and James Bond franchises have danced around each other over the years. Where’s the Rabbit’s Foot?
via Secret Agent Men – Episode 5: Mission: Impossible III — The Reel World
1977. A time when love was free, the porn industry is booming and anything is possible. I don’t know guys, Paul Thomas Anderson just has a really groovy of looking at things. It’s time to strip down for Boogie Nights. Visionary porn director Jack Horner (Burt Reynolds) wants to elevate his movies to an art […]
On one side of town a father is on death’s door as his estranged son is preparing for a conference downtown. A damaged young woman watches an ad on television for a popular game show, a show her father hosts. A nurse tries to reunite father and son, while a cop falls for the woman. […]
It’s been six years, and agent Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise), retired as he can be, is connected to the IMF agency only as a trainer for new recruits. He has settled into suburbia with nurse fiancée Julia (Michelle Monaghan) and is looking forward to married life when he gets the call.
Teens and tweens prepare to produce an online play
via Cynthia Gibb’s Triple Threat For Aspiring Actors, Writers, Dancers — 06880
First Scene Screenplay Festival 