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Podcast: FRIDAY FAMILY FILM NIGHT
Episode: Friday Family Film Night: ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER review
Description: In which the Mister and Kid 1 join me in reviewing ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER (2025), from writer/director Paul Thomas Anderson and inspired by Thomas Pynchon's novel "Vineland". A washed-up former radical named Bob Ferguson (Leonardo DiCaprio) lives a paranoid, weed-hazed life off the grid until his teenage daughter, Willa (Chase Infiniti), is targeted by a vengeful ghost from his past. The obsessive and corrupt Colonel Steven J. Lockjaw (Sean Penn) relentlessly hunts the pair, forcing Bob to emerge from seclusion and navigate a surreal landscape of secret societies and underground resistance groups. As the chase escalates into a high-octane strug...