Philip Seymour Hoffman Reviews, Interviews & More

Scarlett Johansson is ready to make a career change. The actress has announced her directorial debut, where she'll be tackling a work by Truman Capote. Also, IFC released a neat illustrated poster for David Lowery's Sundance hit Ain't Them Bodies Saints. We also got our sticky little hands on Tobias Funke's sizzling audition reel, plus Netflix released 12 new photos for the upcoming...

Perhaps in the haze of the post-Oscar season, there wasn’t a lot of pressure to put out films on Blu-ray this week, but we are getting two of the best films of last year, and one of the Coen Brothers’ most underrated films (partly because it was a bomb on release).

We’re starting to get some of the Fall’s Oscar Pictures hitting home video, one of the most interesting documentaries of the year, and one classic Walt Disney film from the vaults. Not a bad weekend for home video.

Well, gang, seeing as how The Hunger Games: Catching Fire is set for a November 22, 2013 release date, you can pretty much expect a bevy of leaked images, news, and interviews from now until then as The Hunger Games frenzy begins to cook in the blood of the Young Adult market.  And so, following on the heels of yesterday’s first official pictures, comes even more images...

The start of Oscar season is usually packed with a lot of hopefuls based on casts and prestige possibilities, but the reality is that at some point, someone's going to see your movie, and eventually consensus will build. One day you may be the talk of the town, and then the next day your movie will come out in limited theaters and find no audience. Or just as bad, it's forgotten about it...

Paul Thomas Anderson's The Master didn't need 3D or IMAX to break box office records, just a crowd of devoted cinephiles. The highly anticipated film opened in five theaters in New York and Los Angeles over the weekend, and set the record for highest per-screen-average for a live-action feature with a traditional release. If that sounds like just a bunch of gibberish,...

The Master, Paul Thomas Anderson's follow-up to There Will Be Blood came with a lot of misconceptions. Is it about Scientology? Yes and no. Does it deconstruct Scientology? Not at all. The film paints a portrait of a veteran (Joaquin Phoenix) who returns home, but is still adrift, only to end up in the arms (and cult) of Lancaster Dodd...

It’s almost here—Paul Thomas Anderson’s The Master, one of our most anticipated films of the year, gets a limited run on September 14th before going wide on September 21st.  But before it does, we’ve got one final trailer for the film, which, like the trailers that came before it, is a quietly unnerving collection of off-kilter, menacing music married to an abstract...

In what is quickly becoming one of our most anticipated films of the year, The Master has released yet another oddball trailer advertising its 70 mm goodness.  This time it’s a specialized collection of clips meant to advertising the special screening of the film that will be held in Chicago tonight.  Check it out below, in all of its “hey, we swear this isn’t about...

Many of the films that we were looking forward to at the beginning of the year have been pushed back to 2013. This includes Gangster Squad, Gravity, and World War Z. Thankfully, Paul Thomas Anderson's The Master isn't among those on that list because we wouldn't know what to do with...

One of our most anticipated films of the year, Paul Thomas Anderson’s ‘this isn’t about Scientology (but it’s totally about Scientology, you guys)’ film The Master, was secretly screened at a Los Angeles theater over the weekend, for unsuspecting movie fans who had arrived for a screening of Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining.  And we… are…...

Though he's already won an Oscar, Philip Seymour Hoffman has only dipped his toe in big mainstream films, and hasn't really chased franchises. But it looks like he's going to be one of the stars of the next two Hunger Games movies, as Hoffman has been added to the cast of The Hunger Games: Catching Fire as Plutarch Heavensbee.

The second teaser for Paul Thomas Anderson’s The Master dropped today, and it’s a creepy, unsettling, and hypnotic as the first teaser that was released in late May.  While that trailer focused on a drifter played by Joaquin Phoenix who comes under the sway of an unseen L. Ron Hubbard type, the new clip is all about Philip Seymour Hoffman’s...

Speculation over casting for The Hunger Games: Catching Fire seems to be finally picking up a little heat; so far most early rumors have been focusing on who’ll play the handsome fan favorite Finnick Odair, but now new reports are in that Oscar-winner Philip Seymour Hoffman could be joining the line-up as Plutarch Heavensbee, who plays a small yet pivotal part in the new film.

Some context: The Master, Paul Thomas Anderson’s long awaiting follow-up to 2007’s There Will Be Blood, has been passed from studio to studio since 2009, for varying reasons that range from budgetary issues to the fact that the film is supposedly a thinly-veiled and scathing critique of Scientology.  Regardless of the reasoning, PTA finally got The...

When I saw Moneyball I realized one thing -- thank the Cine-Gods, it's fall. Most of the silly action flicks, meaningless horror films, and silly rom-coms are out of the way, and it's time to get into those hard hitting, meaningful, 2+ hour, dramas that will soon be award contenders. I love this time of year, though I didn't necessarily love this film, it fulfilled a...

After the release of The Social Network, British actor Andrew Garfield will be free and clear to train and prepare for the role of a lifetime -- Spider-Man. Sony has already found their Peter Parker but the search is still on for the villain and love interest who will occupy his life. According to recent reports several names are being...

George Clooney is getting that director's itch again. The Oscar winner and recent recipient of the Bob Hope Humanitarian Award has his eye on a new project. According to Vulture (via JoBlo), Clooney is interested in helming the drama Farragut North, and he already has a dream cast that includes Chris Pine, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Paul Giamatti, Evan Rachel Wood, and...

Philip Seymour Hoffman isn't content with being an Oscar winning actor so he's decided to step behind the scenes and try his hand at directing. His first feature film is entitled Jack Goes Boating and it stars himself along with Amy Ryan, John Ortiz, Daphne Rubin-Vega, and Tom McCarthy. In early 2009 we reported on the his directorial...

After multiple director changes and actor replacements, we're shocked that Moneyball is still a developing production. Now that helmer Bennett Miller has taken over, the film's future is looking a lot more promising. Variety reports that Miller is in talks with the extremely talented Philip Seymour Hoffman and Robin Wright to join the...