Straight to the top of our list of no spoilers please/watching it by ourselves/pushing old ladies out the way must see films of the year is PT Anderson’s ‘There Will Be Blood’ followup, The Master. Said to be inspired by the shaky origins of Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard, the film centers on a troubled drifter (Joaquin Phoenix) who becomes the right hand man to PTA fave Phillip Seymour Hoffman’s “charismatic intellectual”, also known as The Master, before he comes to and realises just how momentously fucked up blind acceptance can be sometimes. Not much screen time for Seymour Hoffman here, but that’s easy to forget considering how off the rails/magnetic Phoenix is.
Damn. Can we start handing out Oscar nods for trailers yet?
The film also stars Amy Adams, Laura Dern, Rami Malek, Ambyr Childers, and Jesse Plemons and will be released October 12, 2012.
