“I have so much strength inside of me. You have no idea. I have a love in my life. It makes me stronger than anything you can imagine.” - Barry Egan I suppose we should consider this Paul Thom...

"The book says: We may be through with the past, but the past ain't through with us." - Jimmy Gator / Quiz Kid Donnie Smith / Narrator I'm pretty sure Anderson cringes at this movie. And I do ...

Jacob Peter Gowy's The Flight of Icarus(1635–1637) There’s been this new drama/action thriller genre over the past couple decades. I’ve come to think of these movies as Icarus Films. They’re “Based on ...

This is Anderson's Scorsese movie. Sure, there’s a bunch of Altman here too. But it feels like Scorsese with those sweeping long takes and great musical synchronization. I've seen this movie a fe...

Hard Eight sometimes feels like one of those creative exercises where you're given a prompt - just the start of a story - and then you have to fill in the rest. It feels borrowed. Like a dozen popular...

A film-by-film look at director Paul Thomas Anderson's filmography.  I've chosen to watch all his feature films in order, to track the progression from him as a young filmmaker whose mashup of dire...