On Thursday, Marc Headley settled things once and for all. In a story he wrote for The Daily Beast, he showed conclusively that Paul Thomas Anderson’s script for The Master is about almost nothing but ...

Philip Seymour Hoffman has addressed the implication that his new film The Master was influenced by Scientology. The Master tells the story of a charismatic intellectual (Philip Seymour Hoffman) who ...

The new film, The Master, is based largely on the life of L. Ron Hubbard. Philip Seymour Hoffman dazzles as the founder of Scientology, a charismatic Svengali who convinces his acolytes of the power ...

Thomas Butt is a senior writer. An avid film connoisseur, Thomas actively logs his film consumption on Letterboxd and vows to connect with many more cinephiles through the platform. He is immensely ...

Former Scientologist Marc Headley, who first revealed to the Voice in 2009 that Tom Cruise talked to ashtrays and beverage bottles as part of his Scientology training, has a stunning article in the ...

Viewers hoping for a juicy exposé of the supersecretive Church of Scientology in "The Master" might want to adjust their expectations just a tad. Writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson has acknowledged ...

Scene for scene, shot for shot, Paul Thomas Anderson may be the most exciting American writer-director of his generation. He's a kind of cinematic chemist who works with unstable, dangerously ...

Lists of the famous born in Nebraska often omit one of the state’s most prominent and lastingly influential natives -- L. Ron Hubbard, the founder of Scientology.