Jeremy Urquhart is a writer at Collider who focuses on the Godzilla series, the films of Martin Scorsese, and anything in the action genre.
It’s hard to think about Paul Thomas Anderson without also thinking about Philip Seymour Hoffman, and the reverse is true, too – it’s hard to give an overview of Hoffman’s acting career without also mentioning Anderson. Anderson directed six feature films between 1996 and 2012, with Hoffman having a role in five of them, only sitting out 2007’s There Will Be Blood.
Hard Eight was Paul Thomas Anderson’s first feature film, and gets a little overlooked as a result. Sure, it’s not as great as the masterpieces or near-masterpieces he showed himself capable of making in the coming years, but it’s a rock-solid directorial debut, with Hall and Reilly both being dependably good in the lead roles.
Still, Punch-Drunk Love does remain the Adam Sandler show, as he gets the lead role here and got to demonstrate how genuinely great he can be in more serious roles for perhaps the first time. He’s committed and intense in a way he isn’t usually in most of his other stuff , and “intense” is the word of the day when it comes to describing the movie as a whole, as it’s an artsy and anxiety-ridden romantic comedy that can sometimes be sweet, but is more often than not uncomfortable.
2 'Boogie Nights' Also starring: Mark Wahlberg, Burt Reynolds, Julianne Moore Boogie Nights feels very much inspired by the sorts of rise-and-fall gangster movie storylines Martin Scorsese mastered with films like Goodfellas and Casino, though those in turn also owed something to the classic crime/gangster movies of the 1930s and ‘40s.
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