This was a lot of fun and hopefully informative for viewers!

Paramount Wins Warner Bros. What’s Next? Plus: A shocking assignment!

Paramount may be a better or worse owner of WB than Netflix. One thing that's certain: the process by which Paramount gained control of WB is grotesque and un-American. www.thebulwark.com/p/paramount-...

Netflix is probably marginally less bad but only if you believe they’ll continue releasing movies in theaters. If I’m a regulator I’m extracting a guarantee of some sort that they’ll continue to do so.

I was kind of worried @timmiller.bsky.social was going to have to do this alone, bad for his mental health. Thankfully @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social is here to share the load. open.substack.com/live-stream/...

I’ll get to that right after Heated Rivalry.

From the politics community on Reddit: I’m Joe Perticone, The Bulwark's Capitol Hill reporter covering Congress. I’ll be inside the chamber for tonight’s State of the Union. AMA. Explore this post and more from the politics community

Reddit AMA is LIVE. I'll start answering questions when I'm inside the House chamber and the speech begins, around 9pm. www.reddit.com/r/politics/c...

Special Saturday Triad: What I Saw at the Battle of Minneapolis The national media has moved on. Minnesota is still under siege.

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These are the images I couldn’t get out of my mind:

YouTube video by The Bulwark Trump Has Total Tantrum After Supreme Court Loss

funny convo with @sonnybunch.bsky.social and @timmiller.bsky.social about dumbass's speech.

i would offer two extra notes to the lads:

—the backlight is high and centred—trump saw dante spinotti do that constantly on the "melania" set.

—weekend watch: "strip law" on netflix.

youtu.be/ZzhYa4DyBb8

My goodness…I highly recommend this episode, whether you watch it or listen to it.

it's so ridiculous and yet so real

How a Canadian Cult Hit Can Help Us Think About Creativity Plus: An interview with the directors of a harrowing Oscar-nominated documentary.

Hey you know what I really enjoyed? NIRVANNA THE BAND THE SHOW THE MOVIE. The thing I enjoyed the most about it? It manages to be both pastiche and referential and completely unique and deeply heartfelt. Good movie! www.thebulwark.com/p/how-a-cana...

same tbh

the children crave weekly installments of high-quality procedurals!

YouTube video by The Bulwark "The Alabama Solution" May Change How You See Prisons (w/ Andrew Jarecki & Charlotte Kaufman)

If you prefer to watch your documentaries, you can do that here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nw9d...

Oscar-Nominated Doc Exposes Alabama's Brutal Prisons 'The Alabama Solution' directors Andrew Jarecki and Charlotte Kaufman on scandalous prison conditions.

The Oscar-nominated THE ALABAMA SOLUTION is a harrowing doc. You don't have to be an ardent prison reformer—I'm not—to be horrified by what it shows. I talked to directors Andrew Jarecki and Charlotte Kaufman about how they got their incredible footage. www.thebulwark.com/p/oscar-nomi...

Kicking off Lent by revisiting NOSFERATU.

Tom Noonan, 1951 - 2026 So long to one of the greats

For A Rip in the Picture, a few brief (and free!) thoughts about Tom Noonan.

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"I think it's really hard to Imagine my own cinematic life without him in it."

@sonnybunch.bsky.social pays tribute to the late Robert Duvall.

Robert Duvall, R.I.P. From ‘True Grit’ to ‘The Godfather’ to ‘Apocalypse Now,’ a mainstay of American cinema.

"It’s impossible to single out a lone defining performance by Robert Duvall. He was in so many of the greatest films of all time that one loses track trying to count them. Where do you start?" Well, we can try.

@sonnybunch.bsky.social on one of the greats: lnk.thebulwark.com/3MJpGCt

@sonnybunch.bsky.social pays tribute to Robert Duvall: "Robert Duvall has been a part of the American cinematic landscape—an imposing mesa, cragged and hard to look away from—since before I was born and starred in more great movies than any one man has a right to. May he rest in peace."

Robert Duvall, R.I.P. From ‘True Grit’ to ‘The Godfather’ to ‘Apocalypse Now,’ a mainstay of American cinema.

Robert Duvall starred in more legendary movies than any one man had a right to. RIP to one of the all-time greats. www.thebulwark.com/p/robert-duv...

A Day, and a Nation, at the Kennedy Center From Tchaikovsky to redneck humor: the arts in Trump’s America.

"America is a land of contrasts, and those contrasts were on full display this Friday. One thing both audiences shared, however, was an appreciation for the Kennedy Center itself." There was no reason we had to lose that. ICYMI @sonnybunch.bsky.social: lnk.thebulwark.com/3Ob3i5h

‘Crime 101’ Review Trying a little too hard to be ‘Heat.’

"It’s such a nice shot, Burt Layton uses it again an hour or so later. And then a third time, with a different character." ICYMI @sonnybunch.bsky.social reviews "Crime 101": lnk.thebulwark.com/4tAMJQu

‘Crime 101’ Review Trying a little too hard to be ‘Heat.’

"'Crime 101' is one of those oddly paced movies that either needed to be twenty minutes shorter and lean into the high-concept, elevator-pitch nature of the idea or be twenty minutes longer." Good enough; but it could have been more.

@sonnybunch.bsky.social reviews:

I'm working my way through the series now, which I enjoy even as it falls into some of the traps of TV shows of this nature. (There are a LOT of serial killers in the DMV/West Virginia area, apparently!)

Read All About 'The Late, Great Hannibal Lecter' Brian Raftery on his new book 'Hannibal Lecter: A Life'

Brian Raftery's new book, "Hannibal Lecter: A Life" is really interesting because it is, at least in part, a backdoor biography of author Thomas Harris. I talked to him about discovering the man behind the monster. www.thebulwark.com/p/read-all-a...

‘Crime 101’ Review Trying a little too hard to be ‘Heat.’

CRIME 101 is one of those weirdly paced films that’s either 20 minutes too long or 20 minutes too short. It’s not quite zippy enough for a high-concept thriller but it’s too truncated to be a proper HEAT-style epic. Some great car chases though! www.thebulwark.com/p/crime-101-...

same tbh

thank you, it was a ... well, "fun" isn't the right word, but it was an interesting one to write/report out