If you love movies, the merger of Netflix and Warner Bros. is about as bad as the news can get. We’ll start with…

THE DEATH OF QUALITY MOVIES

About 15 years ago, I started giving up on modern movies. Sure, we’d get a handful of great movies each year. What’s dived in quality are those everyday movies, the ones that hit theaters most every weekend. Today, those movies almost all range from forgettable to outright garbage.

Here’s how I back that up…

Movies I enjoy, I own. There’s no agenda in my purchasing decision. If I like it, I buy it — almost always the hard copy, Blu-ray edition.

So far, with only three weeks left of 2025, I only have three titles on my 2025 purchase list: F1: The Movie; Weapons ; and Sinners . That’s it, and I’ve pretty much seen everything this year. Maybe

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