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What Is This Episode - Top of Show

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PTA REWATCH P. 7 - INHERENT VICE REVIEW:

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Nonspoiler Review:

Production Story: A Simple Favor  - 3:15

Expectations - 9:02

PTA’s Noir Troll - 11:04

Everybody’s In This - 16:33

Production Values Are Impossible On First Watch- 21:15

What’s the Pitch to Make Someone Watch This? - 24:21

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SPOILER WARNING - 28:03

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Spoiler Review:

PTA is LA - 29:02

Fight the Power - 37:38

The Finale and Dreams vs Nightmares - 43:50

More Worsts/Bests - 47:42

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FINAL GRADES - 56:17

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What’s Next From MMO/Leave Us 5 Stars! - 58:14

Inherent Vice - We Get It Now - Boogie Mikes Part 7 - Ep 492

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Bonus Transmission 66 Teaser - ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER (Spoilers!!) - FULL EP ON PATREON

By far Paul Thomas Anderson's most expensive film, with a budget some four or five times what he's used to, and probably his most accessible, One Battle After Another entertains us enormously and effortlessly without sacrificing the complexity and nuance for which his work is known. Set in an alternate America oppressed by Christofascism, the alternate part is that there's a very active militant revolutionary group, the French 75, setting bombs off and freeing detained minorities. Leonardo DiCaprio is part of it, and sixteen years after the conclusion of his group's activities, their work has entered countercultural legend, but he's become a drug-addicted, paranoid burnout, trying to raise a teenage daughter. When the powers that be come looking for them, they're separated, all hell breaks loose, and he has to step up.

José finds One Battle After Another to be the film of the moment, the state of the nation film that Eddington could only dream of being, a powerful, invigorating expression of what ails America and what it means to resist. Mike is more cynical, seeing an element of mockery in the revolution that has no apparent intention to end and is carried out over generations. We love the easygoing style of filmmaking that Anderson seems to have grown into, comparing it to the rigid formality of his early work, and finding that he has a talent for action cinema that's never quite come out before. We also discuss the film's themes of youth and ageing, parenting, the Christian right and more.

One Battle After Another is an unmissable film, the kind that fifty years ago would have defined America's national conversation. Cinema no longer holds that level of cultural cachet, sadly, but One Battle After Another is a powerful, energetic, and very funny reminder of what film can do at its best.

Recorded on 28th September 2025.

457 - One Battle After Another

We're joined by our resident Paul Thomas Anderson expert (and Mike's brother), Stephen Glass, to whom we've previously spoken about Phantom Thread and Licorice Pizza, for another discussion of One Battle After Another. Stephen's seen it in both VistaVision and IMAX 70mm, and can offer a sense of the experience Mike and José missed seeing it in IMAX Digital, and so begins a wide-ranging conversation about the film's aesthetics, tone, politics, influences and more.

Recorded on 5th October 2025.

461 - One Battle After Another - Second Screening

¿Cómo crear un filme que, al mismo tiempo, sea una pieza de autor, un producto de alcance masivo y un objeto que deje una marca en la cultura? la última ocasión en que un realizador había intentado algo parecido —Quentin Tarantino con Érase una vez en Hollywood— éste fue tan alabado como fustigado por cierta parte de público y crítica, pero en general se salió con la suya: su película va camino de convertirse en un clásico. El punto ahora es qué ocurre si a todo el mix anterior agregas una lectura abiertamente política, una que se sitúa de lleno ya no en el pasado reinventado (y lejano) sino en un presente totalmente reconocible, sobre todo para una conflictuada izquierda progresista y una derecha autoempoderada. Pues bien, eso es lo que pone sobre la mesa One Battle After Another: filmada en Vistavision, 65mm, con película física (el formato de mayor nitidez y espectacularidad disponible), protagonizada por Leonardo DiCaprio, en un registro tan maduro como satírico; realizada con efectos especiales prácticos, de abrumadora finura y destreza; basada tangencialmente en una novela del elusivo Thomas Pynchon (rescatando de paso mucho mejor su universo literario y humanista que Inherent Vice, la anterior adaptación de su obra); ambientada, por último, en un Estados Unidos abiertamente reconocible, un mundo de grupos de interés, bandos opuestos, sociedades secretas y armas automáticas, en el que efectivamente se dan cruciales batallas (públicas y privadas) día tras día; en fin, todo ello da cuenta de un extraordinario esfuerzo técnico y artístico, tal vez el más complejo y el más frontal emprendido por Paul Thomas Anderson, en la cumbre de su profesión e influencia en el medio. Wow, qué película y qué ambición. De eso y más se habla en este podcast.

#563 One Battle After Another (2025), de Paul Thomas Anderson

Episode Twenty-Eight: Mason & Dixon (November 2025)

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Mark Iosifescu- "Using the Night: Thomas Pynchon’s evolving populisms"

ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER

The guys discuss the film adaptation, ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER, based on the 1990 novel, VINELAND, by Thomas Pynchon.
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Vineland is set in 1984, the year of Ronald Reagan’s reelection, but primarily told in flashback. The story follows several characters who provide remembrances of their revolutionary life in the late 60s during a time of “fascistic Nixonian repression” and how that had evolved to the 80s and the war on drugs. The main through-line, however, concerns four primary players: three revolutionaries–Zoyd Wheeler, Frenesi Gates, her daughter Prairie, and the federal agent Brock Vond, and the book’s main narrative concerns Zoyd, Prairie and Brock’s attempts to find Frenesi, who is in witness protection. Themes of American rot, the corruptive power of television and the goodness of weed feature prominently. 
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The film adaptation was written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Texans Taylor, Sean Penn, Chase Inifiniti, Benicia del Toro and Regina Hall.
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Topics of discussion include the reimagining of Thomas Pynchon’s novel, the postmodernist literary movement, the challenging aspects of reading Thomas Pynchon, the film’s Academy Awards chances come Oscar season, and whether or not Erik is a member of The Christmas Adventurer’s Club.
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(0:41) Intro, fast facts, trivia
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(15:27) A reading from the novel
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(16:28) Studio pitch & novel breakdown
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(35:47) A word from our sponsor 
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(36:16) Learn you something, differences from the book
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(1:52:32) Coming up next, and outro
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Coming up next: HAMNET by Maggie O’Farrell which was adapted into the new film by Chloe Zhao. So keep an eye out for that!
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94. VINELAND / ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER

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