Justin Humphreys is a writer, film historian, and curator based in Los Angeles. He has published five books. His most recent, Taschen’s LIFE Hollywood, was included in The New York Times’s 2024 Holiday Gift Guide and the L.A. Times’s list of 17 Best Books for Angelenos.
Flashback to fun
With the current glut of superheroes, franchises, and remakes at movie theaters, a film like Paul Thomas Anderson’s Licorice Pizza stands out by default simply for being low-key, unpredictable, and featuring normal- looking people. It’s also low on narrative cohesion and depth, and still sticks out. In short, Licorice Pizza is enjoyable with a strong […]
