DeGen Cinema Podcast

One Battle After Another (2025) | Getting a DUI on LSD


Listen Later

It's Oscar Season, Degen style, as Andy S and Brandon Bombay talk about Paul Thomas Anderson's instant classic, 'One Battle After Another.' Andy kicks it off by recalling a time he had a run-in with the cops while driving where he was questioned about his sobriety, and the legality of his friend in the backseat.

Then the boys dive straight into PTA's sprawling thriller/comedy and begin with the magnetism Teyana Taylor brings to her role, and how they would gladly commit domestic terrorism for her. Sean Penn delivers his most unhinged performance in years (and easily his horniest) as the despicable Col. Stephen J. Lockjaw who's involved in a sordid relationship with Taylor's Perfidia Beverly Hills that is the inciting incident for the whole movie. Of course, at the center of it all is Leonard DiCaprio's brain friend Bob Ferguson, who finds an ally in Benicio del Toro's beer-guzzling sensei. In many ways this is PTA's 'Road Warrior' as it culminates in a gorgeously-shot epic road chase, and the episode mirrors the propulsive energy of the flick. By the end you'll have "no fear, just like Tom f**kin' Cruise." 

...more
View all episodesView all episodes
Download on the App Store

DeGen Cinema PodcastBy Degen Cinema Podcast