PAUL THOMAS

The New York Film Critics Circle on Friday named “Drive My Car,” Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s three-hour emotional epic and Haruki Murakami’s short story adaptation, the best film of the year.

Paul Thomas Anderson’s “Licorice Pizza” has been named the best film of the year by the National Board of Review.

Thanksgiving weekend moviegoing was still far from the feast it normally is, but Disney’s “Encanto” and the Lady Gaga-led “House of Gucci” both gave a lift to two genres that have been particularly battered by the pandemic: family movies and adult dramas.

The fall movie season -- usually a reliable rhythm and cozy autumn comfort — is this year, like much of the past 18 months, a little disorienting.

Marc Maron always believed his long-running podcast “WTF with Marc Maron” should have gotten more award recognition over the years.

A single truffle can cost up to $3,800 are they worth the money? There is something intoxicating about the smell of truffles. In 2019, someone paid over $130,000 for just over two pounds of white truffles. Because they grow below ground, they have to find a way "to entice us," says truffle scientist Paul Thomas. Consuming truffles, especially white truffles, he says, gives similar intoxicating effects as cannabis, though to a lesser degree.