ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER
I was completely floored when I first saw Paul Thomas Anderson’s film One Battle After Another. It ended up being My #1 Movie of 2025. I wasn’t the only one who loved it, as it received rave reviews and won six Oscars including: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Supporting Actor (Sean Penn), Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Casting, and Best Editing. Warner Bros. Home Entertainment has released a 4K SteelBook that is full of extras and worthy to add to your physical media library.
Writer/director Paul Thomas Anderson has always played by his own rules in Hollywood. No two movies are the same, and yet, every one of his movies has his own distinct voice and depth of character. He is working at the top of his game with his latest film, One Battle After Another, which is a full blown ride about protecting your family, your values, and standing up to others. Anderson opens the film with the very familiar scene of immigrants being rounded up and kept in cages and detention centers at the US/Mexico border. Leonardo DiCaprio, Teyana Taylor, and Regina Hall all star as members of a revolutionary group known as the French 75 who execute a massive plan to help them escape. Taylor’s character, Perfidia, is left distracting Colonel Steven J. Lockjaw (Penn). He’s left tied up and entranced by her seductive ways. The French 75 will do whatever it takes to stop a fascist regime. Perfidia and DiCaprio’s character, Bob, welcome a baby daughter, but it doesn’t stop Perfidia from her work. That is until she’s taken in custody after a bank robbery gone wrong. Bob, and their daughter, Willa, escape in the night and live in hiding. Paul Thomas Anderson cuts to sixteen years later. Willa (Infiniti) is now in high school trying to live off the grid with Bob when their old enemies arrive disrupting their quiet existence.
SPECIAL FEATURES
-Cameria, Lighting & Costume Tests
-Chase Infiniti Screen Test
-Learning, Studying…Always Perfecting: The Making of One Battle After Another
-The Cutting Rooms
-Opening Night at the Vista
-24 Page Booklet wtih Behind-The-Scenes Photos
Here’s a video I made for TikTok
