Leftist guerillas Perfidia Beverly Hills (Teyana Taylor) and her lover “Ghetto” Pat Calhoun (Leonardo DiCaprio) leading their revolutionary group the French 75 in storming and liberating a migrant holding facility operated by race pervert Colonel Steven Lockjaw (Sean Penn). But after a bank robbery turns deadly the group is shattered and scattered, with Perfidia vanishing and Pat going into hiding with their infant daughter Charlene. Sixteen years later Pat is living in a Colorado sanctuary city in a haze of drugs, under the assumed name of Bob Ferguson. His paranoia makes him an overbearing parent to his daughter, raised as Willa and now played by Chase Infiniti. When Colonel Lockjaw learns of their hiding place and leads a series of migrant roundup raids on the city, the remainders of the French 75 spirit Willa away to a safe house. Meanwhile Bob is forced to rely on the support of kung fu sensei and immigration activist Sergio St Carlos (Benicio Del Toro), as well as the protocol and praxis he forgot years before in order to escape capture and reunite with his daughter.

Timestamps

• (01:48) Godzilla
• (11:20) Out (Deadly Drifter)
• (23:28) The Battle of Algiers
• (42:41) Salvador
• (53:41) One Battle After Another
• (1:27:16) Spoilers
• (1:52:01 ) Next Time!

Works Cited

• The Battle of Algiers (Gillo Pontecorvo, 1966)
• Born on the Fourth of July (Oliver Stone, 1989)
• Children of Men (Alfonso Cuaron, 2006)
• Disco Elysium (ZA-UM, 2019)
• Deadly Drifter, a.k.a. Out (Eli Hollander, 1982)
• Django Unchained (Quentin Tarantino, 2012)
• Godzilla (Ishirō Honda, 1954)
• Godzilla (Roland Emmerich, 1998)
• Godzilla review & film summary (1998) | Roger Ebert (Roger Ebert, 1998)
• Independence Day (Roland Emmerich, 1996)
• Inherent Vice (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2014 movie; Thomas Pynchon, 2009 novel)
• JFK (Oliver Stone, 1991)
• Jurassic Park (Steven Spielberg, 1993)
• The Master (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2012)
• Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood (Quentin Tarantino, 2019)
• One Battle After Another (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2025)
• ‘Out’ Review (Evan “Raymond Gun-Virus” Pincus, 2019)
• Platoon (Oliver Stone, 1986)
• Salvador (Oliver Stone, 1986)
• A Savage War of Peace: Algeria, 1954–1962 (Alistair Horne,1977)
• Souvenirs de la Bataille d'Alger (Saadi Yacef, 1956)
• The Simpsons (Matt Groening, 1989)
• Siskel & Ebert, Season 12, Episode 37, ‘Godzilla/Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas/Bulworth/The Horse Whisperer’ (Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert, 1998)
• Lo Staniero/The Stranger (Luchino Visconti, 1967)
• There Will Be Blood (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2007)
• The Wolf of Wall Street (Martin Scorsese, 2013)
• Thirty Years Later… (Susan Sontag, 1996)
• This Is What It's Like Now: On "One Battle After Another" (Sam Bodrojan, 2025)
• Unclear and Present Patreon, The Battle of Algiers (Jamelle Bouie and John Ganz, 2023)

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• @number8axel.bsky.social

Opening music is Root Beer Rag by Billy Joel

Closing music is G-Spot Tornado by Frank Zappa

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