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OV488 – One Battle After Another (2025) & V/H/S/Halloween (2025) – Guest: Brent Leuthold – The Obsessive Viewer – Movie Review Podcast

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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.

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• Matt: ElectroVoice RE20 into RØDEcaster Pro II (Firmware: 1.6.6)
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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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