One Battle After Another & The Smashing Machine Reviews + Interview With Benny Safdie
Project Big Screen
Barstool Sports
4.6 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 6 October 2025
⏱️ 121 minutes
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Summary
On our first ever episode of Project Big Screen, we review Paul Thomas Anderson’s latest hit ‘One Battle After Another’ and discuss whether the nearly unanimous praise is warranted. Also on the show, we review ‘The Smashing Machine’ starring The Rock as well as a grab bag of quick reactions to some of the past few week’s smaller releases. We have a collaborative ranking of our favorite movies of 2025 so far and then to wrap the show up, ‘Smashing Machine’ director Benny Safdie sits down with Gooch to discuss his latest film, working with Christopher Nolan, and the directors he loves. Make sure to like and subscribe — and if you want to be a part of our fan rankings, comment your Letterboxd username below and we’ll follow you! Timecodes: Intro - (0:00) One Battle After Another Review - (2:09) Smashing Machine Review - (23:57) Play Dirty Review - (42:40) Anemone Review - (51:22) Megadoc Review - 55:17) Life of a Showgirl Review - (59:39) Jay Kelly Trailer - (1:02:11) NY Film Festival Recap - (1:05:46) Other Streaming Stuff - (1:07:44) Top 10 Movies of 2025 - (1:10:29) Interview with Benny Safdie - (1:29:42) Follow us on Social Media: barstool.link/pbs X | Twitter | Letterboxd: @ProjBigScreen IG | Tik Tok: @ProjectBigScreen Our Personal Letterboxds: Jeff: @JeffDLowe Gooch: @Bobby_Gooch Kenjac: @KenjacPBS Klemmer: @ChrisKlemmer Kirk: @KirkMinihane
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, Project Big Screen listeners. |
| 0:01.5 | You can find us every Monday on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or YouTube. |
| 0:05.6 | Prime members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. |
| 0:12.6 | On this first episode of Project Big Screen with myself, Jeff Dilo,owe, Kirkmane, Ken Jack, Clemer, and Gooch. |
| 0:22.3 | We will have reviews of Leonard O'Caprio and Paul Thomas Anderson's one battle after another. |
| 0:27.9 | And then The Rock in The Smashing Machine is an Oscar-worthy performance. |
| 0:31.9 | We'll have quick reviews on Mark Wahlberg's new streaming movie Play Dirty. |
| 0:35.0 | The annual day Lewis's return to the big screen with Anemone and a few other quick hit reviews as well as our combined list and ranking of the top 10 movies of 2025 so far. |
| 0:46.5 | Make sure to like and subscribe wherever you are watching or listening. |
| 0:51.0 | Actually, no matter what, please give us a like and subscribe on YouTube, Apple Music, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, all of that and more. |
| 0:58.7 | All right, welcome on in to Project Big Screen, the first episode of our brand new movie |
| 1:03.9 | podcast, wherever you're listening or watching, whether it be on Apple Podcast, Spotify, |
| 1:09.4 | YouTube, if you're watching. |
| 1:14.4 | Jeff D. Lowe alongside Kirk Minahan, right on the list in front of me. |
| 1:18.4 | Gouche, Clemer, Ken Jack, brand newie podcast coming at you. |
| 1:21.1 | It's a movie review and rankings podcast. |
| 1:25.0 | We don't have to do like, you know, a whole, we're like a back and forth on what it is. |
| 1:26.1 | But very excited. |
| 1:28.3 | I think the excitement level is high. Kirk, I think there's there's five of us here. We'll see how many there are in a week or two, right? Yeah. Yeah. I'm not thrilled with the star here if I'm being totally honest behind the scenes. I don't like what's going on here. Got gooch in a wind tunnel. Yeah. Yeah. Horns are, but I'm sure. I'm sure it'll be good. |
| 1:44.7 | We have a great movie, I think, that we all pretty much like today, how it's going to work going forward. I'll quickly go over this. Two reviews off the top today. There'll be one or two, depending on how many movies come out this week. We're doing two because we want to catch up and talk one better after another. We'll have a segment in between where we kind of do like a couple quick hits, like maybe movies or small things that we've seen that we're not going to do like full reviews on, but we'll give you our takes, maybe some movie news, trailer breakdowns, and then we'll do a list at the end every week. A combined list too. So we'll argue and disagree with each other. It's a top 10 list that we all get two picks each. Let's get right |
| 2:18.8 | into it. One battle after another. Latest movie from Paul Thomas Anderson, Bob a washed-up |
| 2:25.7 | revolutionary who lives in a state of stone paranoia surviving off-grid and with his spirit and self-reliant |
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