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Three-time Oscar nominee Amy Adams is set to receive the Cinema Vanguard Award at the 2013 Santa Barbara International Film Festival. The festival chose Adams for the honor because of her performance in The Master. Adams will pick up the award at a special ceremony on January 31st.   SBIFF Executive Director Roger Durling stated: [...]

Voting won’t take place until December 11, 2012, however the San Diego Film Critics Society has released its list of the nominees for best films and performances of the year. Without further ado, here are this year’s nominees: BEST FILM  ARGO DJANGO UNCHAINED SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK THE MASTER ZERO DARK THIRTY BEST DIRECTOR  Ang Lee, [...]

Reviewed by Kevin Finnerty “He’s making all this up as he goes along. You don’t see that?,” asks Val Dodd (Jesse Plemons) to wayward drifter Freddie Quell (Joaquin Phoenix) who has become the newest disciple to follow Lancaster Dodd (Philip Seymour Hoffman) and his teachings in the dramatic film, The Master.   After serving in [...]

Starring: Philip Seymour Hoffman and Joaquin Phoenix [full cast list under the 'Cast' tab] Directed By: Paul Thomas Anderson Release Date: September 14, 2012 Running Time: 137 minutes Genre: Drama MPAA Rating: R for sexual content, graphic nudity and language   Official Synopsis: Paul Thomas Anderson’s sixth feature film, The Master, unfolds a vibrantly human [...]

Written by Kevin Finnerty With summer coming to a close and the kids going back to school, so also ends the big summer movie blockbusters season, making way for the films hoping to be noticed for Oscar consideration and the movies looking to cash in on the holiday moviegoing public. It’s time for the Fall [...]

A new TV spot has been unveiled for Paul Thomas Anderson’s much-anticipated drama The Master starring Joaquin Phoenix, Amy Adams, and Philip Seymour Hoffman. The new clip – called “Truth” – finds Hoffman’s character claiming to have unlocked the source of all creation.   The Plot:   A 1950s-set drama centered on the relationship between [...]

Joaquin Phoenix, Amy Adams, and Philip Seymour Hoffman star in The Master, the upcoming dramatic film from writer/director Paul Thomas Anderson (There Will Be Blood). The Weinstein Company just released the theatrical trailer for the film and it’s obvious this will be one of TWC’s big Oscar pushes. The film centers on Phoenix’s character who [...]

“I am a writer, a doctor, a nuclear physicist, a theoretical philosopher, but above all I am a man. A hopelessly inquisitive man, just like you.” The second teaser trailer for Paul Thomas Anderson’s The Master has arrived and this time the focus is on Philip Seymour Hoffman’s character. Hoffman plays a writer who starts [...]

Writer/director Paul Thomas Anderson’s The Master has been shrouded in secrecy, and now – finally – we get our first look at the film courtesy of a first-look trailer supplied by The Weinstein Company. The trailer finds Joaquin Phoenix in trouble but unable to understand what it is he’s done wrong. In addition to Phoenix, [...]