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Netflix Backs Out of Bid for Warner Bros., Paving Way for an Ellison Takeover

The richest man owns X.

The second and third richest men control Google.

The fourth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.

The fifth richest man owns The Washington Post.

And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros.

See the problem here?

The Daily Telegraph currently owned by a private equity vehicle RedBird IMI - based in the UAE and led by Italian American Gerry Cardinale and Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan.

Patriotic news. For patriotic people. Who don't want to pay taxes.

A hardcover copy of There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America by Brian Goldstone. The black cover features a vertical strip with the title and a photo of Atlanta’s skyline.

After many years of reporting and writing, the day is finally here: THERE IS NO PLACE FOR US is out today.

I poured everything into this book, and I hope it ignites outrage at the fact that so many people in the richest nation on earth have been deprived of one of the most basic human necessities.

3/3 Oscar-nominated for Best International Film. I am still trying to figure out why I loved Sirat! The setting, the story and the score play a part in it. The tonal shift also. It's all about what is lost and somewhat found.

It's one that you just have to see.

Brilliant.

#film #cinéma

2/3 Oscar-nominated for Best International Film.
Hope is fading, but they push through and follow a group of ravers heading to one last party in the desert. As they venture deeper into the burning wilderness, the journey forces them to confront their own limits.

#film #cinéma

1/3 A father and his son arrive at a rave deep in the mountains of southern Morocco. Searching their daughter/sister - who vanished months ago at one of these endless, sleepless parties. Surrounded by electronic music and a raw, unfamiliar sense of freedom, they hand out her photo again and again.

Winner of Best Director and Best Actor in Cannes. Annnnddd, it's not difficult to understand why!

This nourish thriller is absolutely exquisite. The story, the styling, the directing, the acting...it just oozes class.

Just see it.

#film #cinéma

Back to the Oscar nominated entries for Best International Film.

Brazil, 1977. Marcelo, a technology expert in his early 40s, is on the run. Hoping to reunite with his son, he travels to Recife during Carnival but soon realizes that the city is not the safe haven he was expecting.

#film #cinéma

How have I never heard of this? From your comments I need to read it. Now.

3/3 The film beautifully captures the fear of being disposable in a system that doesn't care about loyalty or effort and how that fear can push someone toward choices they never would have made otherwise.

As utterly brilliant as it is said to be.

2/3 A dark, brilliantly funny, melodrama from the undisputed master of such things - Park Chan-wook. A visual masterpiece, perfectly executed. No Other Choice is an absolute feast for the eyes, ears and mind.

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1/3 Man-su has been a loyal employee for 25 years, until an abrupt layoff upends his life. Desperate to find work and provide for his family, he concludes the only way to get ahead in such an impossible job market is to take out the competition - literally.

#film #cinema

Suella makes the ultimate sacrifice as she ditches Tories for Reform | John Crace Most of those at Monday’s event had to remind themselves that Braverman hadn’t defected long ago

Lovely hatchet job on the monstrosity that is Suella Braverman. Crace covers it all;
her dishonesty, disloyalty, nastiness, incompetence, her wild vanity… and her deep stupidity.
How dare these utter arses think we’d be persuaded by their swaggering nonsense.
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symbolic compliance
#WordOfTheWeek

Elon Musk @elonmusk Hitler was a far left socialist. His party was called the national socialists. HotSotin @HotSotin North Korea is a democracy. Its name is Democratic People's Republic. B.Roll.Benny @brollbenny urinal cakes are for eating, it has cake in the name

You can’t tell me we have a functioning economic system when the richest man in human history is one of the most profoundly stupid people in human history

No Other Choice review: Downsizing The Korean director’s follow up to the carefully plotted Decision to Leave takes a more chaotic path with the story of an unemployed family man who tries to game the ailing job market by offing his co...

“Park Chan-wook’s comedic yet grisly version of the perennially familiar unemployment spiral adapts the 1997 novel The Ax by American crime writer Donald Westlake for another generation”

@nicolasrapold.bsky.social reviews No Other Choice, out now. www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...

2/2
All Her Fault explores the chasm of what some parents will go through to keep their family intact. Uncover the dark and twisted secrets of one seemingly perfect family.

A brilliantly paced and executed TV thriller. Sarah Snook is sublime in what is one of 2025's best.

1/2 When Marissa Irvine goes to pick up her young son Milo from his first playdate with a boy, Jacob, at his new school, the woman who answers the door has never seen or heard of either Marissa or her son - beginning every parent's worst nightmare.

#TV #thriller #drama

2/2 A disturbing snapshot of the effects of reality TV - on its audiences, participants and its victims.

Compelling stuff.

#film #cinema #documentary

1/2 A documentary exploring the rise and fall of the reality television programme 'To Catch a Predator', which aired on NBC from 2004 to 2007 featuring interviews with some of the former decoys, clips and unseen raw footage from the series

#film #cinema #documentary

2/2 Things get interesting and twisted once customers realise they have been cheated.

A psychological thriller that comments on our increasing penchant for online consumerism and the perceived distance/anonymity that brings. Or does it?

#film #cinema #kurosawa

1/2 A stylish, subversive thriller from suspense-maverick Kiyoshi Kurosawa (1997's Cure and 2001's Pulse).

Cloud concerns Yoshii, an ambitious, yet directionless, young factory worker from Tokyo who side hustles in the murky realm of black market reselling, cheating buyers and sellers alike.

2/2 The film explores its rich history of journalism, culture, and cartoons, while looking at challenges facing long-form, fact-based reporting in the digital age, highlighting the dedicated 'obsessives' behind its craft.

This is absolute gold, especially if you are a lover of the magazine.

1/2 The New Yorker at 100 - a Netflix documentary by Marshall Curry, narrated by Julianne Moore - offers us unprecedented behind-the-scenes access magazine's newsroom as it navigates its centennial in 2025.

#thenewyorker #film #documentary

There is no strategy
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How Neo-Nazis Posing as 'Ordinary Parents' Embedded Themselves in Anti-Immigrant Protests A year long investigation by Katherine Denkinson exposes the Neo-Nazi and far-right extremists operating openly inside anti-immigration protests

🔴How Neo-Nazis Posing as ‘Ordinary Parents’ Embedded Themselves in Anti-Immigrant Protests

A year long investigation by Katherine Denkinson exposes the Neo-Nazi and far-right extremists operating openly inside anti-immigration protests

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This. This is wonderful. Ai/mB - The Oracle Tree. The fruits of a collaboration between Anders Ilar and Martin ßøulton.

Out on Touched Revolutions.

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#electronica #electronicmusic

I adored it, but felt it lost it's way/momentum occasionally.

Watching GB News or reading the Telegraph you realise there is a slice of right-wing opinion that would happily betray this country.