TV/Movies Megathread

[HVC]

Reversing it is dumb if it is indeed a loophole. Just raise the cutoff.

It's probably my bias, but when I lived in farm country farmers would cry poor while driving into town to cash their grants in fancy new cars itching to get back home to their newly built McMansions

[HVC]

Yes. It's good. He does a nice job in showing the importance of very left wing things to his core right wing audience.

Though I am skeptical of this series. He has been part of the silly reaction to asking wealthy farmers to pay a little inheritance tax.

Around here, we try to foster in family inheritance of farms. Why are you guys looking to have them sold to Chinese interests?

While Canada doesn't have an inheritance tax, it kind of does since the estate pays it before the person inherits it. There are a few exemptions. I know about primary residence and spousal deferals. I just looked up farms and got this:

"Lifetime Capital Gains Exemption (LCGE): For eligible assets like Qualified Small Business Corporation Shares (QSBCS) or Qualified Farm and Fishing Property (QFFP), the CRA allows a major capital gains exemption of up to $1.25 million"

And that's on the capital gains, so 50% of actual gains. With the crazy increase in property values the next generation of farmers might be screwed.

So basically Canada has what the UK was trying to do.

Double caveat this time. Standard google warning plus adding that I'm not a tax expert so bare that in mind

[Grey Fox]

Yes. It's good. He does a nice job in showing the importance of very left wing things to his core right wing audience.

Though I am skeptical of this series. He has been part of the silly reaction to asking wealthy farmers to pay a little inheritance tax.

Around here, we try to foster in family inheritance of farms. Why are you guys looking to have them sold to Chinese interests?

Eh?
We aren't. Where are you getting this?

Sheilbh provided more information about the UK government uturn on this but if farmers kids can't inherit their parents farms, the farms get sold. China is spying all over you guys so I was making a play on that.

As to where I get this : This thread & I finished episode 2 of Clarkson's farm season 5.

[garbon]

Following in Syt's footsteps, I've been watching Cheers. While there are of course some aspects that could certainly not be permitted today, it is surprising how well it stands up with a lot of current sensibilities/humour.

One thing that does not hold up well is what would definitely now be called sexual harassment on the part of Sam. Particularly once Kirstie Alley joined the cast. Repeatedly letting your uninterested boss that you want to have sex or laughing with your colleagues and customers about her being Backseat Becky is pretty low.

[crazy canuck]

Yes. It's good. He does a nice job in showing the importance of very left wing things to his core right wing audience.

Though I am skeptical of this series. He has been part of the silly reaction to asking wealthy farmers to pay a little inheritance tax.

Around here, we try to foster in family inheritance of farms. Why are you guys looking to have them sold to Chinese interests?

While Canada doesn't have an inheritance tax, it kind of does since the estate pays it before the person inherits it. There are a few exemptions. I know about primary residence and spousal deferals. I just looked up farms and got this:

"Lifetime Capital Gains Exemption (LCGE): For eligible assets like Qualified Small Business Corporation Shares (QSBCS) or Qualified Farm and Fishing Property (QFFP), the CRA allows a major capital gains exemption of up to $1.25 million"

And that's on the capital gains, so 50% of actual gains. With the crazy increase in property values the next generation of farmers might be screwed.

So basically Canada has what the UK was trying to do.

Double caveat this time. Standard google warning plus adding that I'm not a tax expert so bare that in mind

Yeah, it's a big problem in this country. There is a deemed disposition of the land triggering the capital gain tax, which as you point out will be large.  I have heard mutterings about addressing this in the tax code. If it is not addressed, then all the small acreage farmers will be wiped out because the next generation will need to sell just to pay the tax bill.

To avoid fire sale circumstances, some are selling proactively.

The corporate interests who acquire the land don't have this problem because of course the owner never dies...

[HVC]

Not tied to farm specifically, but I do know that people are using life insurance to offset these taxes. Works for middle and not overly wealthy upper class, but after a certain threshold you don't get enough from insurance. So if used small farms might be ok. Medium sized and large farms not so much.

[crazy canuck]

But it's also a significant risk. If the whole of the life insurance proceeds are used to pay the tax burden?then the family is betting everything on the productivity and profitability of the farm. And in an age of global warming, that may not be a good long-term bet.  Or even short-term bet.

It'd be much better if the tax policy was rationalized to put less burden on the continuation of family farms.  Say for example, in increasing the tax on corporate farms to offset the revenue, that will be lost by giving the family farms a break. Right now the system is heavily weighted in favour of large scale, corporate farming.

[HVC]

Fair point. I'd favour a forced deemed disposition for corporate farms every 40 years (or whatever the average numbers of years for a regular farm is). That puts both at more even footing, could perhaps even give pause to ever expanding land acquisitions.

[Josquius]

So... Spider Noir.
I had no idea this was a thing being made.
Nicholas Cage as detective Noir spiderman....
Anyone seen?

[Crazy_Ivan80]

Heard about it, could be interesting because of what they're trying to do

[Sheilbh]

So... Spider Noir.
I had no idea this was a thing being made.
Nicholas Cage as detective Noir spiderman....
Anyone seen?

No - but someone I know said it's the bes thing they've seen from Marvel (not really a Marvel fan) which is positive.

[garbon]

I saw and liked the first episode. Picked to watch it in b/w. I will go back for more.

[mongers]

'Ides of March' perfectly serviceable US political drama with Ryan Gosling and George Clooney as a Kennedy-like candidate.

[Savonarola]

Michael (2026)

The Jackson 5 didn't audition for Motown in Los Angeles      what sort of crap is this?

 

(The Motown Building in Detroit, where the Jacksons did actually audition, is long gone, so that's probably the reason for the venue change.)

Jaafar Jackson's impression of his uncle is dead on, it's almost creepy at points.  Unfortunately there's barely a story, no character development and the movie simply moves from one highlight of Jackson's life to another.  They had to excise all the child molestation allegations for legal reasons, so there's not even that.

They didn't have a Diana Ross in it, which surprised me (I later read that the scenes featuring her were cut.) 

[Duque de Bragança]

De Gaulle –  Tilting Iron (2026)

The First part.
Where to start? The actor playing de Gaulle was good, at least good enough for me. Benoît Magimel as Général Koenig, may be a lookalike of Stacy Keach, Mike Hammer era, for the Anglos. 
As for the CGI, it looked better than in the trailer, but it's egregious at time for my taste. Your kilometrage may vary.
Some gore is there, surprisingly enough
As for historicity, some short cuts were taken.
Mild spoilers

The Bir Hakeim battle, yes also a Parisian métro station, was fictionalised and simplified up to a simplistic level at times. I didn't check the full accuracy of the matériel depicted on screen. 
The treatment of the Darlan question (an interesting Matthieu Kassovitz)  would have caused a polemic 20 or 10 years ago.

Regarding the troubled relationships between de Gaulle, Churchill and the US, the film delves into it a lot and felt more accurate to me, at least.

It's an ambitious movie, part of a new trend launched by Pathé of big-budgeted productions of classics (Count of Monte Cristo) and "mainstream" topics.
Waiting for the second part, screening on July 7th over here.