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Tuesday 31 March 2026 at 8pm (doors open 7.30pm) at Haddenham Village Hall
ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER (15) 161 mins Director: Paul Thomas Anderson Starring: Leonardo deCaprio, Sean Penn, Benicio del Toro Synopsis: Once, Bob, an idealistic revolutionary under the American insurgent group French 75, was rescuing detained migrants. He was also planting bombs in administration buildings with his hardcore lover to make a statement. Since then, it has been one battle after another. But things are different now; Bob is an off-grid nobody, the group is a disorganised mess, and there is a kid caught in the middle--Willa, a free-spirited high-school student. Sometimes, the past returns with a vengeance. And when Willa disappears without a trace, sinister powers take charge, and an unstoppable adversary obsessed with results re-enters Bob's life. Has the next revolution just begun? Awards: Thirteen 2026 Oscar nominations, five BAFTA nominations, one Golden Globe win and four nominations Reviews: "We’re used to Anderson, the director of There Will Be Blood and Phantom Thread, coming back with a surprise up his sleeve. But even so, it’s hard to overstate just how electrifyingly improbable his latest picture is." ***** DAILY TELEGRAPH "For Anderson, it’s as definitive an artist’s statement as Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, though he’s looking resolutely forward where his contemporary looked back." ***** INDEPENDENT "Anderson and his fine cast layer all these pyrotechnics with a palpable sadness for their characters and for the country. There are few explicit arguments here about the state of the US, but one can imagine endless such arguments being projected upon it." ***** IRISH TIMES "I’m not sure if it’s Anderson’s masterpiece, and though Penn is funny in the role of the crazed colonel, he frequently veers towards cartoonish and almost ruins his scenes. Still, it’s an easy best picture Oscar nomination in the bag." **** TIMES "The film never flags, bounding from moments of high tension to ones that are sublime. The comedy, meanwhile, always feels integral." SPECTATOR "Anderson, at his best, represents a cinema of big swings and bold statements. Perhaps not everything lands, but there’s enough that does to make this glorious mess of a movie one of the most thrilling cinema events of the year." OBSERVER "For Anderson’s sixth film in a row, Jonny Greenwood’s score is a key modernising ingredient, shaping sequence after sequence with new timbres, tilted beats and bold attacks. It’s a terrific ride." SIGHT & SOUND "A film serious about racial politics... There’s almost none of this primal subject in Pynchon’s novel, yet it’s Anderson’s main theme. He’s a director whose films always come at you from a different angle. Don’t miss this one." NEW STATESMAN
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