One Battle After Another Review, Wicked For Good Trailer, & More<\/p>\n
This week in Screen Time<\/a>, I hype up why One Battle After Another is worth a trip to the movies, and why it\u2019s the early frontrunner for Best Picture. I also share what\u2019s all over my FYP, like hilarious reactions to the final trailer for Wicked: For Good. There\u2019s also what we\u2019ve got going on over on BuzzFeed Celeb\u2019s YouTube channel<\/a>, and I share what I think is the BEST episode of Gilmore Girls of all time, and I want to know what you would pick, too. Let\u2019s go!<\/p>\n Directed and written by Paul Thomas Anderson, One Battle After Another follows a group of ex-revolutionaries who reunite after 16 years when an enemy resurfaces and kidnaps the daughter of one of their own. Even before the film\u2019s release, it\u2019s been getting so much Oscar buzz<\/a> and is an early frontrunner for Best Picture as well as several other categories, like Best Actor for Leonardo DiCaprio. And as of this week, it\u2019s also No. 1 on Letterboxd\u2019s Top 50 movies of 2025<\/a>. One Battle After Another marks Anderson and DiCaprio\u2019s first collaboration, and it\u2019s outstanding from beginning to end.<\/p>\n The cast is also stacked, with standout performances from DiCaprio, Sean Penn, Benicio del Toro, Regina Hall, Teyana Taylor, and Chase Infiniti, with this movie marking Infiniti\u2019s film debut after starring in Presumed Innocent. I genuinely think it\u2019s DiCaprio\u2019s best (and funniest) performance since The Wolf of Wall Street. The New York Times calls the movie<\/a> a \u201cstartling, present-day American epic,\u201d and I think there\u2019s no better way to describe it. It\u2019s mesmerizing, funny, heartfelt, and I think it\u2019s THE movie to beat for this year\u2019s awards season right now.<\/p>\n From Steven Knight, the creator of Peaky Blinders, comes another drama about a dysfunctional family. This time, Knight trades 1900s Birmingham for 19th-century Dublin to tell the story of the Guinness family, one of Europe’s most famous and enduring dynasties. House of Guinness<\/a> begins in the aftermath of Sir Benjamin Guinness’s death. Credited with the success of the Guinness brewery, his death has a huge impact on his four adult children, Arthur (Anthony Boyle), Edward (Louis Partridge), Anne (Emily Fairn), and Ben (Fionn O’Shea), as well as the people who work and interact with the phenomenon that is Guinness.<\/p>\n While the show isn\u2019t as explosive as Peaky Blinders, it\u2019s still a solid family drama, especially if you\u2019re like me and you love an upstairs-downstairs dynamic, like Downton Abbey. While the show follows the Guinness family, namely Arthur and Edward, who inherit the massive fortune, property, and more, it also has great storylines featuring the people who work there, like a standout performance from James Norton as brewery foreman Sean Rafferty. The cast really carries this show, which gets a little repetitive in the middle, but is still a great watch.<\/p>\n Gen V<\/a> \u2014 watch for: Perfectly expanding The Boys universe once again<\/p>\n Class is back in session at Godolkin University as Gen V returns with Season 2. When a mysterious new dean (Hamish Linklater) promises a curriculum that will make the students stronger, it’s hard not to feel Homelander’s influence on the school (and world). While Cate (Maddie Phillips) and Sam (Asa Germann) are seen as heroes, Marie (Jaz Sinclair), Jordan (London Thor and Derek Luh), and Emma (Lizze Broadway) return to college and try to somehow get back to some semblance of normal.<\/p>\n While Season 2 doesn\u2019t necessarily pack the same jaw-dropping punch as Season 1 did, it\u2019s still a solid continuation in The Boys universe. The show also reworked storylines to honor Chance Perdomo<\/a>, who died in 2024, and it kicks off the season with outstanding performances from the cast, who brilliantly honor Perdomo and his character. Also, I am a shipper at heart, and I am swooning over Marie and Jordan<\/a> so much this season already, and we\u2019re only a few episodes in.<\/p>\n This week, over on BuzzFeed Celeb<\/a>, we had the iconic and legendary Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon<\/a> play with puppies while answering questions. To celebrate the return of The Morning Show for Season 4 \u2014 a season that\u2019s already so wild<\/a> and we\u2019re only two episodes in \u2014 Jen and Reese talked about working with so many amazing guest stars on the show, and much more. Plus, they shared the items they\u2019ve stolen from set over the years (spoiler: Jen stole something from Courteney Cox on Friends), what TV shows they\u2019d love to guest star on, what\u2019s on their FYPs, and more. Click below to watch all of the adorable chaos:<\/p>\n The big movie news this week was Wicked: For Good, the second and final installment in director Jon M. Chu\u2019s adaptation of the hit Broadway musical, dropped its final trailer<\/a>. I\u2019m going to be honest, it got me so hyped to sit in a theater and watch it when it comes out in November.<\/p>\n Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande are already bringing it in the trailer \u2014 the \u201cJust look at me. Not with your eyes\u2026with theirs\u201d moment as Elphie and Glinda cry hurt me, thank you very much \u2014 and we catch a glimpse of Tin Man and Scarecrow. There are also snippets of songs like \u201cFor Good\u201d and \u201cNo Good Deed,\u201d which I will now be listening to on repeat. So, as you can imagine, fans had some very spot-on reactions<\/a> to the trailer, so here are some of the best ones:<\/p>\n What’s the best episode of Gilmore Girls?<\/p>\n While there are several of my favorite Gilmore Girls<\/a> episodes that could claim the top spot, for me it\u2019s \u201cThey Shoot Gilmores, Don\u2019t They?\u201d in Season 3. I love the 24-hour dance marathon because, let\u2019s be honest, I always love a Stars Hollow town event, and having it as a backdrop for the Rory, Dean, and Jess love triangle just makes it extra high stakes and juicy. I also adore Lorelai being so competitive with Kirk, but then dropping it all once she realizes how hurt Rory is. Plus, who doesn\u2019t love Dave Rygalski and Lane?! It\u2019s such a good episode. An honorable mention for me is probably \u201cRaincoats and Recipes,\u201d aka the Season 4 finale.<\/p>\n Well, that’s all I’ve got for this week’s edition of Screen Time. Come back every week to get more TV and movie recommendations, find out which celebs we’re working with, and so much more!<\/p>\n Do you love all things TV and movies? Subscribe to the Screen Time<\/a> newsletter to get your weekly dose of what to watch next and what everyone is flailing over from someone who watches everything!<\/p>\n Have a question for me, or want to tell me what you\u2019re watching right now, or have a suggestion of what I should watch next? Send it to me now at screentime@buzzfeed.com, in this Google form<\/a>, or in the comments below!<\/p>\n