Tag: Paul Thomas Anderson
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Reel 86: The Magnificent Andersons
And this, children, is what happens when you don’t hit the “Publish” button. Enormous apologies and thanks for your patience. I’ll make up for it by publishing another episode tonight, since that was the plan anyway. While I’m at it, I also apologize for the cover art. I couldn’t come up with anything good. This…
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There Will Be Blood (2007) – Review
When he was promoting his solo album Nothing Like the Sun, Sting gave an interview to Rolling Stone. One of the questions he was asked was why he had turned away from the type of music he had made with The Police, and instead towards what the interviewer seemed to criticize as “art rock”, to…
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Reel 74: The Wages of Greed
Sure, Gordon Gekko told us all that greed, for lack of a better term, is good. And that film sometimes takes the blame for a bunch of unfortunate things that took place in the 1990s. But there are films out there which note that there’s a darker side to greed (and, to be fair, Wall…