@movienight-with-Josh-BarryWelcome to Movie Night, the essay edition.“One Battle After Another” (2025) is a darkly comic action thriller directed, co written, and co produced by Paul Thomas Anderson, adapted loosely from Thomas Pynchon’s novel Vineland. It marks the long anticipated first collaboration between Anderson and Leonardo DiCaprio—an actor Anderson originally wanted for the lead in Boogie Nights—and uses DiCaprio’s star power to anchor a story about failed revolutions, compromised ideals, and the long...