We're wrapping up our look back at 2025 with one of the most talked about (and expensive) movies of the year: Paul Thomas Anderson's epic ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER

ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER
RELEASED: September 8, 2025
DIRECTED BY: Paul Thomas Anderson
STARRING: Leonardo DiCaprio, Benicio Del Toro, Teyana Taylor, Sean Penn, Chase Infiniti, Regina Hall
BUDGET: $175M
BOX OFFICE: $207M
ESTIMATED LOSS: $80M

NEXT EPISODE: We go back to the 80s for problematic childhood favorite SHORT CIRCUIT 2.

SHOW NOTES

Michael Cera CeraVe ad
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwOpQHeWo4c

0:00 Intro
2:41 Show & tell
9:04 This week's movie

Bong Joon Ho is back with an original sci-fi movie! Did it make a bunch of money? We wouldn’t be talking about it if it did. It’s MICKEY 17

MICKEY 17
RELEASED:
DIRECTED BY: Bong Joon Ho
STARRING: Robert Pattinson, Naomi Ackie, Mark Ruffalo, Toni Collette, Steven Yeun
BUDGET: $118m
BOX OFFICE: $133m
ESTIMATED LOSS: $80m

NEXT EPISODE: We wrap up our 2025 retrospective

0:00 Intro
3:08 Show & tell
8:12 This week's movie

We're heading back into the MCU for one of their best movies in years, that still unfortunately underperformed at the box office. It's the THUNDERBOLTS ASTERISK.

THUNDERBOLTS*
RELEASED: May 2, 2025
DIRECTED BY: Jake Schreier
STARRING: Florence Pugh, David Harbour, Wyatt Russell, Lewis Pullman, Hannah John-Kamen, Sebastian Stan, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Gerladine Viswanathan
BUDGET: $180m
BOX OFFICE: $382.4m
ESTIMATED LOSS: $40m

NEXT EPISODE: We cover another 2025 bomb, this time an adaptation of a recent sci-fi novel.

Wheaties popcorn bucket Ian got at the premiere
https://imgur.com/a/LLnSqV2

Quotes about AVENGERS: DOOMSDAY that have us concerned

Alan Cumming
https://imgur.com/a/SOe56l8

Paul Rudd
https://imgur.com/a/GtSLinY

0:00 Intro
3:39 Show & tell
8:49 This week's movie