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Paramount Calls WBD Sale Process “Tilted And Unfair” In Letter To CEO David Zaslav Paramount is calling foul on Warner Bros. Discovery sale process, accusing the company of running an unfair process that it thinks favors Netflix.

This letter is a clear attempt to get Trump angry enough to intervene, and is thus a pretty clear signal to the entertainment community of what kind of company Paramount plans to run. I know people dread a Netflix acquisition of Warner Bros.; this would be worse. deadline.com/2025/12/para...

Wait WHAT

I had a major revelation in the old version of the museum. It was basically just glass cases with artifacts hanging from pegboards, but realizing how many songs I already loved were produced by the same core group of artists in the same room just blew my mind

what kind of softheaded nonsense is it to reflexively apologize for your best movies not being the year's biggest? Are there Minecraft Movie fans who will be up in arms because Jafar Panahi took their slot?

Not all of these are necessarily the biggest films of 2025, but all are worthy of special elevation. Read on to find the Vanity Fair staff’s alphabetical accounting of the best movies of 2025—a year strong enough that we couldn’t stop counting at just 10.

Vanity Fair's Top Movies is a good list compiled by good people, but the last graf of the intro makes me want to throw things, especially from a publication that had to do its list piecemeal because they just fired a great film critic www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/st...

feels like the wrong year to make white supreme

Review: ‘Long Story Short’ Does Time Travel, Family Style

Fine, one more thing: I said in that thread that most years I have one #1 favorite and beyond that it gets fuzzy/arbitrary. This year that show was "Long Story Short." Watch it if you haven't! (giftie) www.nytimes.com/2025/08/22/a...

I’m fascinated by how many of these schmucks seem determined to return not just to the 50s, but to an imaginary form of the 50s derived from sitcoms. I demand a national screening of the movie Pleasantville!

It is by all accounts a very personal story for Anderson, and it’s a weird quirk of auteurism that directors’ most nakedly personal movies are often among their worst

If there’s one thing The Chair Company taught me it’s to be suspicious about Control

Pee-wee as Himself and The Rehearsal Season 2

these are both great choices and a great pairing, since each show is about a man with a big secret

There are two shows on this list I have not watched, including one I have never heard of. Hooray! More good TV to watch.

(Where is The Chair Company tho)

I have been mulling a third category for people like Regina Hall and James Raterman (Lockjaw’s lieutenant) who don’t have enough screen time to make a dent in supporting but bring something absolutely essential to the film. For me, that’s at least what the casting Oscar should be for.

Supporting, which would make sense if the movie resembled the novel, but … it doesn’t

now do Paul Mescal

right, the worst potential knock on Del Toro in One Battle is it’s just kind of Benicio doing his thing, but the Phoenician performance at least shows he’s capable of more

it won’t have much bearing on Del Toro’s Oscar chances, but he also played a kind of character I’d never seen him play in The Phoenician Scheme, not the kind of left-field surprise you expect from a 58-year-old character actor

yeah, the fact that people just love Sergio, as a guy, is part of it. He’s the guy in the hangout movie you want to hang out with.

I think it helps that they put out how much Del Toro contributed to the film beyond just his performance too; the whole “Latino Harriet Tubman” aspect, for example, was his idea

this was back when I was surprised anyone loved “a few small beers” as much as I did

a thing I am happy to have been wrong about is saying in late September that Benicio Del Toro’s performance in One Battle After Another was probably too small in multiple senses to get much traction in awards season

I think Penn is still the presumptive Oscar fave so I’m not worried about Del Toro getting too much attention in the early stretch, but Delroy Lindo in particular should be near the top of everyone’s lists

I am beyond feeling judged for my taste in music but definitely vulnerable to feeling I don’t devote enough time to listening to it

Apple Music replay, telling me “You didn’t listen enough this month” in January

I find this concerning

people, you have the chance to put my book ahead of Olivia Nuzzi’s on the bestseller list. put aside all other considerations and think how objectively funny this would be. #1, that Mountain Goats guy. #2, Antivax Man Has My Heart. funniest list of the century. We can do this if we try

I feel like all these little circles would be a pretty great party

Honestly, fair

just like the past tense of “freak” is “fraught”

otoh it’s a shame that supporting actor is so packed this year there’s not more room for Delroy Lindo to get the recognition he deserves

It’s getting screenplay awards as a kind of runner-up thing, but I think that’s really the wrong thing to recognize it for