Paul Thomas Anderson

Say what you want about streaming services. However, they can't be all bad if they can release projects like Anima to mass audiences - works from bona fide geniuses which don't fit neatly into a standard medium. A blend of ballet, film…

There Will be Blood taught me that a profound movie can also be a remarkably silly one. 10 years ago, I was just a few months out of college, and met up with my old Film Studies class to watch PTA’s latest film on its first day. We were…

Mark Wahlberg used to be good. Whatever he’s done after 2000 is what it is, but Wahlberg’s work in the 1990s is untouchable. Three Kings is a fantastic war satire, Good Vibrations is an unassailable totem of 90s pop-rap and then there is…

Back at it again with sideways glances and informed debate, your NO ENCORE crew go in-depth on two albums of note as a busy week lies ahead. There's all the usual news and new music to ponder, too, but before all that, Craig Fitzpatrick has…

Radiohead A Moon Shaped Pool After a somewhat tepid response to 2011's awkward, bleepy The King of Limbs, it seemed as though Radiohead might consider reinvention for album number nine. After deleting all presence on social media and…

Legendary novelist Thomas Pynchon’s work is finally brought to the screen by director Paul Thomas Anderson, another man given to sprawling absurdist examinations of America. In 1970 Los Angeles narrator Sortilege (Joanna Newsom)…

There are very few directors that make me excited when they start production on a new film. There are a lot of directors I like, and I will be excited when I see the trailer, or perhaps, read the premise and see the cast and the writers and…