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 ...

Inherent Vice is set in 1970 in a fictitious Southern California town, Gordita Beach (mentioned in Pynchon’s 1990 novel, Vineland, and bearing a resemblance to Manhattan Beach), where the protagonist, ...

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 ...