"With a $140 million price tag, One Battle After Another is one of Paul Thomas Anderson's more ambitious swings. Based on Thomas Pynchon's novel Vineland, this thriller stars Leonardo DiCaprio as the paranoid Bob Ferguson, a former member of the revolutionary group French 75, who lives off the grid with his daughter, Willa (Chase Infiniti). After Willa goes missing, Bob is drawn back into the fray. Teyana Taylor, Benicio del Toro, Sean Penn, and Regina Hall also star."
"It's time to start reaping the rewards of our Movie Fantasy League! If you picked One Battle After Another, expect to get some early points - though, hey, maybe The Strangers: Chapter 2 will surprise the handful of you who drafted it. Paul Thomas Anderson's splashy action-thriller feels like the talk of the film world. It helps that it's actually quite good, but for those of you trying to stay in, there's the finale of Alien: Earth, House of Guinness (think Irish Succession), a new Sterlin Harjo series(!), and the release of one S-word Apple TV+ show this week."
""Imagine plucking one of Richard Linklater's Slacker oddballs and dropping them into a Raymond Chandler novel: familiar yet skewed, in a noir world refracted through Sterlin Harjo's sly humor and lived-in specificity.""
One Battle After Another carries a $140 million budget and adapts Thomas Pynchon's Vineland into a splashy action-thriller. Leonardo DiCaprio plays Bob Ferguson, a paranoid former member of revolutionary group French 75 who lives off the grid with his daughter Willa (Chase Infiniti) until her disappearance pulls him back into conflict. The film features Teyana Taylor, Benicio del Toro, Sean Penn, and Regina Hall. Early fantasy-league scoring looks favorable for One Battle After Another, while other notable releases and highlights this week include The Strangers: Chapter 2, the finale of Alien: Earth, House of Guinness (a Succession-style family drama), a new Sterlin Harjo series, and Apple TV+'s Slow Horses starring Gary Oldman as Jackson Lamb leading a unit of low-level MI5 spies.
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