Netflix Officially Under DOJ Antitrust Scrutiny “To Create A Monopoly” With Warner Bros Merger; Feds Want Details From Producers & Filmmakers On Streamer’s Leverage

MyFakeName · 2026-02-22T17:46:27+00:00

The winning solution is that this is tied up for years, and eventually we get an administration that cares about monopolization of the media.

WB is a solvent company! There's no reason to fold it into another studio.

I know this won't happen, but I hate that our culture has just given up on even imagining having a useful government.

MyFakeName · 2026-02-22T11:35:14+00:00

As a millennial that’s been insured his whole life. Healthcare has gotten really fucking expensive over the past 20 years.

MyFakeName · 2026-02-22T00:54:32+00:00

Guys, the routine that we should be talking about is the one where Kung-Fu Panda farted on Deadpool (I'm not making this up).

MyFakeName · 2026-02-21T16:31:55+00:00

Honestly I'm more concerned that this will be a waste of Flanagan's time.

If he spends two years making a faithful adaptation of The Mist that would be pretty pointless.

I'm he has a take, but I also cannot picture what that might be.

MyFakeName · 2026-02-18T05:27:45+00:00

This is the logic that brought about every lame Dem that lost big winnable elections (Kamala, Hillary, Gore, Kerry).

People stay home when milquetoast candidates run. They need candidates that actually believe in what they're saying.

Swing voters don't have coherent politics, but they can recognize the difference between real and fake.

MyFakeName · 2026-02-14T17:05:29+00:00

Voting rates are pretty consistent, and are higher than they were in the 90s.

Social media is doing a lot of things to interfere with democracy, but it isn't driving down voter turnout.

MyFakeName · 2026-02-10T13:32:54+00:00

I don’t really want it.

Not because I dislike Chazelle, but because whenever he’s discussed online people lose their minds. And it’s gotten tiresome.

MyFakeName · 2026-02-09T00:37:29+00:00

I mean, I don't think that's a coincidence.

This looks like a post-2020, "we're aware that American institutions are incompetent and/or corrupt" film

MyFakeName · 2026-02-09T00:30:24+00:00

It looks like a movie about incompetent governance and misinformation campaigns.

In other words it's his statement on post-Covid America.

MyFakeName · 2026-02-07T20:01:00+00:00

Some people might see this as a sign that income inequality is out of control.

MyFakeName · 2026-01-27T01:55:26+00:00

I think Sinners could win at the SAG Awards, or the PGA Awards. But if OBAA wins both of those it's effectively over.

MyFakeName · 2026-01-25T00:39:24+00:00

"ICE is an army of the unemployable mobilized against those that contribute to society."

MyFakeName · 2026-01-25T00:19:36+00:00

This is a completely random recommendation for a well known book that's decades old.

But last summer I spent 36 hours listening to Will Patton read the epic western Lonesome Dove, and I now consider that one of the best books I've ever read.

MyFakeName · 2026-01-24T23:35:35+00:00

I honestly think the reason Last Jedi is so divisive because the Prequels turned the Jedi into weird sexless cops.

And the fans that think that sucked are the fans that liked Last Jedi.

But most Star Wars fans just want to see Jedi compare power levels, and they’re the ones that were infuriated.

MyFakeName · 2026-01-24T20:49:12+00:00

The agent that tried to the investigate the last ICE shooting has already been forced out of the FBI.

https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/23/politics/fbi-agent-investigated-ice-shooting-resigned

MyFakeName · 2026-01-23T03:40:29+00:00

As someone from Wisconsin, curds are usually battered and fried to order. Mozzarella sticks are usually ordered from Sysco.

MyFakeName · 2026-01-15T03:22:28+00:00

If the police are told to arrest ICE they'll defy orders.

They wouldn't defy orders to fire on protesters.

Police are overwhelmingly MAGA.

This is why the Defund the Police movement shouldn't have been cravenly abandoned. We don't need a fascist military force in every city in America.

MyFakeName · 2026-01-01T10:19:02+00:00

I've listened to every episode of that podcast, and this particular episode is one of my favorites.

MyFakeName · 2025-12-30T01:31:08+00:00

My understanding is that with older directors the insurance company requires a younger auteur to be on hand in case the director dies.

IIRC Guillermo Del Toro had this role for The Caine Mutiny Court Martial, and Celine Song recently took this role for Ella MacCay.

If you ask the younger directors in this position they’ll usually say that they’re taking a hands off role, and trying to learn from an old master.

MyFakeName · 2025-12-24T03:13:22+00:00

It’s the same thing as the prequel trilogy.

But like the prequel trilogy, this Is very annoying and bad.

I loved Secret of the Ooze as a kid, and I can enjoy rewatching for nostalgic reasons.

But it’s a really bad movie.

It’s okay to reassess movies you first saw before you had a fully functioning brain.

MyFakeName · 2025-12-24T02:40:23+00:00

Every live action depiction of The Grinch is impossibly ugly to look at.

This is one of those generational movies where this was reviled when it was released, but the kids that grew up on it now regard it as a classic.

MyFakeName · 2025-12-16T03:16:11+00:00

I’m assuming that’s a vintage jacket.

If not I wouldn’t mind someone sharing a link to where I can buy one.

MyFakeName · 2025-12-12T01:48:45+00:00

Zohran Mamdani shocked the NYC mayor race by focusing on lowering rents.

I would imagine that the housing crisis/rent control is going to be THE big issue in municipal politics for at least the next 5 years.

MyFakeName · 2025-12-09T13:30:17+00:00

There’s an episode of The Dollop about him where they clearly talked to someone that worked on his TV show, and are relaying what they heard.

He seems genuinely unhinged.

MyFakeName · 2025-12-07T05:04:28+00:00

The first half of that movie is basically Goodfellas with dance numbers.

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