It's been great watching Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson's career skyrocket. He's a true blue "guy everyone wants to be, everyone wants to be with" who can go from children's films to action hero status without missing a beat. And regardless of w...
With Man of Steel hitting and missing with audiences across the world, I saw the perfect opportunity to write about one of my favorite things in the whole wide world: pretty redheads. Amy Adams is one of those women who really is the whole ...
We've gone through a lot of awards over the past week honoring some of the best films in pretty much every way we can, but now we come to it. No more genres or categories, simply put, what follows is the best movie of the year. What's...
This year's Best Actor category had some fairly strong competition, between Daniel Day-Lewis' beloved portrayal of Abraham Lincoln, Denzel Washington's troubled airline pilot in Flight and Joaquin Phoenix's hauntingly disturbed character in...
Soundtracks are the nervous system of a film. You don't see them, but if it stopped working for a few seconds, the film dies. A soundtrack or orchestration is just as important as the actors and actresses on screen. And some of the best sou...
Perhaps the most interesting thing about 2012's award season was how much stock was put into some of the supporting performances. Usually, supporting actors and actresses play second fiddle to the leading characters, and when awards time co...
Even though Paul Thomas Anderson's The Master didn't do well at the 2013 Academy Awards, it will always run Bartertown in my heart. If you watched Flixist's Google Hangout for the Oscars, you know we all expected Joaquin Phoenix to rush the...
The 2012 Flixist Awards (known as the Golden Pterodactyls by those in the know) have arrived. Now that those far less important awards have come and gone, it's time to get down to the ones that really matter. We'll be spending the next week...
Last year we made the bold statement that our Oscar predictions were the best ever. Were we 100 percent right? No. But that doesn't mean we're going to back down from outlandish claims about our incredible ability to predict who is going to...
For the second year in a row, Mondo (the movie poster art powerhouse) has commissioned a set of posters for select Academy Award nominees. Three of the set have been officially announced, and others are going to debut during the broadcast o...
If you haven't seen The Master, you've missed one of the most incredible films of the year. And if you have seen The Master, you'll especially appreciate these overseas posters for Paul Thomas Anderson's epic film. The posters are from Turk...
When I think of Paul Thomas Anderson's films, I usually think of them in terms of velocity. There's a certain kind of drive to them, the movies hurtling toward moments that express frailty and loneliness. There are set pieces (e.g., the "Go...
Even though Paul Thomas Anderson's The Master only played in five theaters across the country, it set the box office on fire. The Master now has the highest per-screen average for a film with a traditional release. It made $736,311 over the...
The Church of Scientology continues its tradition of creepy, off-putting actions, this time targeting Paul Thomas Anderson's The Master. The New York Post reports that Scientologists have been "'inundating' the distributor, The Weinstein Co...
With Paul Thomas Anderson's The Master coming out this week, a treat just popped up online. You can now stream Jonny Greenwood's score for The Master in its entirety. Greenwood previously scored Anderson's There Will Be Blood and also plays...
Here it is, the final trailer for Paul Thomas Anderson's The Master. It's short, it's strange, it's percussive, and it's as foreboding as a mofo. "Mofo," of course, is an abbreviated combination of the words "motherf***ing," "foreboding," ...
Earlier in the week we shared two promo videos for Paul Thomas Anderson's The Master, which coincided with a special screening in San Francisco at the Castro Theater last Tuesday. In addition to film being shown in glorious 70mm, people who...
Ages ago we reported that Jonny Greenwood would be doing the score for The Master, marking the Radiohead guitarist's second collaboration with Paul Thomas Anderson. (He previously scored There Will Be Blood.) Yesterday the full tracklist fo...
More than a dozen new images from Paul Thomas Anderson's The Master surfaced over the weekend, giving us more glimpses of Joaquin Phoenix, Philip Seymour Hoffman, and Amy Adams. Perhaps most striking, though, is Phoenix looking like Ed Grim...
Last week a big batch of images from Paul Thomas Anderson's The Master surfaced, but we were asked to remove them for the time being. In lieu of those, here's a second poster for The Master, which is like the cast members viewed through a k...
Last month brought us the first footage from Paul Thomas Anderson's The Master, introducing us to Joaquin Phoenix's character. Today's teaser/trailer/clip provides our first glimpse of Philip Seymour Hoffman in action as the title characte...
Ok, calling the first clip from Paul Thomas Anderson's not-about-Scientology-at-all-why-would-you-even-say-that picture The Master a "trailer" isn't precisely accurate, but having read the script (hint hint, it's amazing), this a...
Earlier in the month we reported that Paul Thomas Anderson's The Master may be coming out in October. We can now confirm that rumor was true; you may commence dancing. The Master has an official limited release date of October 12th. It will...
As we're still waiting for more details about Paul Thomas Anderson's The Master to emerge, BlackBook recently published some fine behind-the-scene photos from the film. These pics taken by Jack Erling are of extras rather than the star...
Good news, everyone: Paul Thomas Anderson's The Master is being scored by Radiohead's Jonny Greenwood. Greenwood also scored Anderson's There Will Be Blood, lending extra moodiness, ill-ease, and suffocation to the film. News of the Gr...
There was a bit of wonder surrounding the Director of Photography job on Paul Thomas Anderson's next flick. After serving as cinematographer on every one of the director's films from Hard Eight through to There Will Be Blood, Robert Elswit ...
