Movie people love to debate their little movie rankings, and directors like Paul Thomas Anderson inspire particularly varied (and seemingly endless) evaluations, reconsiderations, and reshufflings all ...

Two years after Quentin Tarantino spared Sharon Tate a gruesome Manson family murder, fellow SoCal auteur Paul Thomas Anderson re-creates the Encino of his childhood with every bit as much affection ...

No matter how expansive his films get, Paul Thomas Anderson always returns home to the San Fernando Valley. The sprawl of Los Angeles suburbs where Anderson grew up is home to Boogie Nights and ...

The title of the movie may be One Battle After Another, but star Regina Hall and casting director Cassandra Kulukundis say ...

“Licorice Pizza” was the name of a popular chain of record stores in the late 1960s to early 1980s, which sold LP (long-playing) records, cassettes, and eight-tracks all over the Southland, including ...

Thomas Butt is a senior writer. An avid film connoisseur, Thomas actively logs his film consumption on Letterboxd and vows to connect with many more cinephiles through the platform. He is immensely ...

Paul Thomas Anderson is one of Hollywood's most prolific modern directors, and One Battle After Another is just the latest example of his talented approach to filmmaking. Growing up in the San ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." According to DiCaprio, he’s been dying to work with Anderson for “something like twenty years now.” In ...

L-R: Paul Dano in 'There Will Be Blood,' Alana Haim in and Cooper Hoffman in 'Licorice Pizza' and Mark Wahlberg in 'Boogie Nights' Everett Paul Thomas Anderson not only has several feature films under ...

More so than with other directors, it’s always tempting to overly psychologize Paul Thomas Anderson’s films, looking for traces of his personal development and hints of autobiography: the father ...