Inherent Vice is a 2014 period neo-noir mystery film written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson. The film is based on the 2009 book by Thomas Pynchon. The story revolves around a fumbling but ...

There are those who will observe—and have observed already—that Paul Thomas Anderson's adaptation of Thomas Pynchon's Inherent Vice is weird, rambling, fragmented, occasionally over the top and not at ...

Liam Gaughan is a film and TV writer at Collider. He has been writing film reviews and news coverage for ten years. Between relentlessly adding new titles to his watchlist and attending as many ...

NEW YORK -- The world premiere of Paul Thomas Anderson's Inherent Vice will screen as the Centerpiece of the upcoming 52nd New York Film Festival. Starring Oscar nominees Joaquin Phoenix and Josh ...

Based on Thomas Pynchon's detective novel, “Inherent Vice” is the story of Larry “Doc” Sportello, a pot-loving private investigator with a penchant for getting into trouble. Set in Los Angeles circa ...

Liam Gaughan is a film and TV writer at Collider. He has been writing film reviews and news coverage for ten years. Between relentlessly adding new titles to his watchlist and attending as many ...

Why don’t Bond villains just shoot Bond? Why didn’t the Empire plug that troublesome exhaust port? Why didn’t the Eagles fly Frodo to Mordor? There’s a tedious school of movie criticism that asks such ...

Like Anderson’s body of work, Inherent Vice is unusual. It’s often hazy, silly, and hard to follow. These qualities aren’t drawbacks. The film’s haphazardness is by design, underscoring the confusion ...

The first trailer for Paul Thomas Anderson's Inherent Vice has been unveiled. The upcoming crime drama stars Reese Witherspoon, Joaquin Phoenix and Josh Brolin, and is the first ever film adaptation ...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Joaquin Phoenix makes a fist and raps it three times on the arm of a chair. "It's like one's enough," he says about press interviews, forcing a grin. The three-time Oscar ...

"Paul Thomas Anderson, having just worked with him... [it's like] 'Let's go this way', or 'Let's whisper the lines', and 'Let's actually take out all the lines and we'll do it like charades', once," ...