With the possible exception of food purchased in jam band parking lots, nothing pairs better with weed than a good film. It’s a substance that can make bad movies seem good and good movies seem ...

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, ...

For much of his career, Paul Thomas Anderson has excavated the grimy, sun-soaked past of California, the state he was born in and has long called home. In Boogie Nights, he explored the pornography ...

Paul Thomas Anderson's Inherent Vice isn't the towering masterpiece that those who admired There Will Be Blood and The Master were probably hoping for, and thank God for that. It's loose and free, ...