“This is a business where the buyer gets nothing for his money but a memory,” MGM founder Louis B. Mayer (Arliss Howard) says in Mank. “What he bought still belongs to the man who sold it ...

1997: Netflix is founded by Reed Hastings and Marc Randolph. 1998: Netflix launches a DVD-by-mail rental service. That same year, Amazon founder and former CEO Jeff Bezos offers to buy the company.

Maybe part of that is because it came out around the holidays 30 years ago or that its DVD cover leans into it. But then you remember Beth’s piano, the girls stomping through the snow with their ...

Hastings co-founded the video streaming platform in 1995 as a DVD subscription service. It started streaming films and television series in 2007 and later began creating its own content.