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The Right Time with Bomani Jones

Howard Bryant breaks down One Battle After Another & Highest 2 Lowest | 10.08

The Right Time with Bomani Jones

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4.812.9K Ratings

🗓️ 8 October 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Bomani Jones is joined by Howard Bryant to break down Paul Thomas Anderson’s ‘One Battle After Another,’ starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Sean Penn, Benicio del Toro, Regina Hall & Teyana Taylor. They explore themes of capitalism, character representation, and the role of music in film, while discussing many critiques of the film being litigated on social media. Later, they discuss Spike Lee's 'Highest 2 Lowest' starring Denzel Washington. They discuss how it compares to Kurosawa's 'High and Low" and what the movie does and does not say about Black Capitalism. 2:00 - Breaking down "One Battle After Another" 31:50 - Highest 2 Lowest: The High and The Low Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the right time, a wave original.

0:09.9

My name is Beaumani Jones. Thanks for listening wherever you get this podcast.

0:13.1

Thanks for watching us on YouTube. Subscribe, like, rate us, review us, give us five stars.

0:18.6

You only give us four stars. I'm inclined to believe you are a hater. It is that time of week where we have a guest. Join us. The great Howard Bryant on the mic. What's going on, sir? What's up, Bo? How are we doing? We're good, man. We're going to try something new here. All right? So I think as most people know, I'm not the biggest movie buff, right?

0:37.8

But I do find that if you give me a movie that I find to be interesting,

0:42.0

I can have some interesting thoughts and kind of want to discuss it, right?

0:45.4

On the other hand, Howard Bryant is on the board of directors at the local snooty movie house in his town

0:54.3

in Massachusetts. He is

0:56.6

that guy. He does movies. And so I was like,

0:59.9

I am curious how the audience would appreciate

1:03.0

a little movie talk. And so what we're going to do is we're going to talk

1:05.9

about one movie that came out about a month and a half ago,

1:08.5

another one that came out about a week and a half ago.

1:18.6

And these were, so long and short, is I wound up watching high and low because Howard told me to watch high and low. Or somebody told me to watch high and low. Either way, I watched it,

1:22.7

the Kiro Sauer film, which of course is what Spike adapted highest to lowest for. And so

1:27.4

watched a couple of those.

1:29.0

And then people kept telling me to watch this one battle after another movie. And one person

1:34.2

told me they loved it. One person told me he hated it. And Howard told me it was worth watching.

1:39.8

And so here we are in the Howard world. Now, one battle after another, I figured we can start here. Here's what we're going on spoilers. We're going to do our best to avoid them, if at all possible, on this one. On the movie that came out in 1963, you're on your own. On the movie that came out in August, I'm not that worried about your feelings. On the one that came out last weekend, maybe I'm going to do my best.

2:17.6

I think that all seems fair, right? I think it's fair. Okay. I mean, I never know when it comes to the spoiler alert. Some people are like, you know, two weeks. Some people are hardcore. They're like, hey, if you didn't see it opening weekend, that's on you. I, I'm not willing to wait to DVD, but I think two,

2:18.8

three weeks is good.

2:20.2

Yeah,

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