Joaquin Phoenix Reviews, Interviews & More

Paul Thomas Anderson has made a great number of movies that in short are magnificent. He's one of the best modern day filmmakers we have out there and the casting for his latest picture Inherent Vice should get many fans of his work excited. 

We may recognize Owen Wilson as that pouty lipped lead guy in a number of comedies, but he can hold his own when it pertains to the more dramatic roles. It appears that Wilson will be going the more dramatic route again with his next possible role in the new Paul Thomas Anderson flick Inherent Vice.

Though Paul Thomas Anderson may be revered as one of the greatest working filmmakers of our day, his films have rarely been profitable. At best his films do a little better than break even (many don't even do that), which makes it that much harder for the director to get his projects going. Recently, Anderson struggled to find financing for The Master until Megan...

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).

When you begin to pay attention to the awards circuit, it's difficult to find out which critic circles or award ceremonies have a great track record with their predictions. It's easy to get lost in the flurry that is the awards season, especially around this time of year when every other major town is hollering about who they deem as their top picks. This week on Oscar Scuttlebutt not only do...

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...

Joaquin Phoenix's performance in The Master is undoubtedly one of the best (if not the best) of the year. But he could care less about whether or not his performance was "Oscar-worthy." The actor recently said that he doesn't believe in the Academy Awards and that he does not want the gold statue. Also, Lena Dunham announced the official return date of...

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…...

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...

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...

Once again, it’s time for the News Roundup, in which we gather all the little news items we don’t care enough about to actually flesh out in a full post (just kidding, little news nuggets, we love you, too—and we’re sorry we told you that we loved our movie reviews and news posts more, we just had a lot to drink that night and work’s been really rough, lately).   From new buzz...

Joaquin Phoenix is still a wanted man in Hollywood. Even after his pseudo-retirement for the documentary I'm Still Here, he's managed to keep producers and directors interested in him. Why, you ask? Because the man has chops! He can actually act. He didn't get nominated for two Oscars for nothing. According to Deadline, Phoenix is being courted to star alongside...

A couple weeks ago we reported that I'm Still Here star Joaquin Phoenix was slated to join Leonardo DiCaprio in the Clint Eastwood biopic, Hoover. The actor was rumored to play his right hand man and lover in the film. Could you imagine Leo and Joaquin going at it? It's an interesting concept (and visual) but it's not happening. Eastwood has...

Yesterday we posted a teaser for Joaquin Phoenix's highly anticipated return to the "Late Show with David Letterman." To say that his last visit was horrible would be an understatement. It was NOT must see TV, and it was pretty hard and uncomfortable to watch. Thank God, Phoenix stopped taking those crazy pills and is back to his clean shaven, nicely dressed self. We missed...

He's back! Joaquin Phoenix has returned to the controversial stage of "Late Show with David Letterman." The last time the actor appeared on the program was in early 2009 while at the peak of his I'm Still Here insanity. He was heavier, shaggier, and as receptive as a brick wall in conversation but that's all changed. Now that his movie is in theaters,...