Remember that fourth-grade Mission project? The educational torture device that transformed your dining room into a hot-glue crime scene for three straight weeks? The midnight popsicle-stick panic sessions? Hoards of ants attacking the sugar cubes that stood in for adobe blocks? Your parents in the doorway, silently reconsidering every life decision that led to that moment?

Well, dust off those traumatic memories, because La Purisima Mission just got its Hollywood glow-up, and it's considerably more glamorous than whatever architectural disaster we cobbled together at age nine.

Paul Thomas Anderson's latest cinematic fever dream, "One Battle After Another," has transformed our beloved Central Coast landmark into a revolutionary hideout.

Who could have predicted that the same historic si

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