OV488 - One Battle After Another (2025) & V/H/S/Halloween (2025) - Guest: Brent Leuthold

The Obsessive Viewer - Movie Review Podcast

This week, Brent Leuthold joins me to review the new Paul Thomas Anderson movie, One Battle After Another in a feature review and then, in this week's secondary review, we talk about the new Shudder original, V/H/S Halloween. We also discuss recent movie and TV news and screenings around Indianapolis.

Timestamps

• Show Start - 00:28
• Introducing Brent - 03:10
• Screening in Indy - 13:29
• News Before the Reviews - 20:53

Feature Review

• One Battle After Another (2025) - 42:23
• Spoiler - 1:16:59

Secondary Review

• V/H/S Halloween (2025) - 1:41:22

• Closing the Ep - 2:11:44
• Patreon Clip - 2:13:34

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Next Week on the Podcast

• OV489 - The Smashing Machine (2025) & Bone Lake (2025)