Well Jesus there’s different techniques for dealing with different types of bears? That feels like too much work, think I’ll just get eaten.

Sounds like these children were lucky enough to be around adults who enforced appropriate boundaries, glad to hear this story has a happy ending. 

It is no longer original for a spunky under-30 hot girl to be the po-faced chosen one.  

Brilliant, deserves more stars.

No, you don’t need that designer shirt.  Yes, you have dyslexia.  

It goes against Hollywood logic where beauty is a baseline requirement, but ironically, their respective looks and social positions are quite plausible in real life.

The SNL Lifetime game show sketch distilled that nicely.

Agreed—I’ve never seen the movie and never will, but the title has a special place in my heart.

Amen.

Zahn should get some percentage of the roles that are automatically offered to Woody Harrelson. 

Agreed. The author is bashing something fairly harmless just because a lot of white women like it.

Amy Poehler was perfectly cast in Inside Out but I will never understand why people love Leslie Knope so much. I could never enjoy that show consistently because it felt like longform hagiography and she didn’t feel like a real person to me (not even a “real person” in sitcom land).

This poor man, it looks like someone has painted a target on his chest.

No way! I’d heard of that movie, but I didn’t pay much attention and had no idea it was so parkour-heavy. I’m on it. Thanks!!!

Imho, people with that “X acting well!” quality fall into two categories: bad actors, and movie stars.  

The two leads were believable as brothers, that’s one thing I remember from seeing it when it first came out.  And in retrospect, the actors had a lot in common, both self-important egomaniacs, with some justification in the quality of their work.  All of which is to say, great casting.

Tom Cruise is a weirdo with some bad opinions, and the article was spot-on about him having morphed into Jackie Chan, but he really is a powerful actor, and the article rightly credits him with brilliant, star-making choices. He should have gotten an Oscar somewhere along the way.

Funnily enough, staying small and focusing is exactly what I think worked so well about the first Deadpool movie. Action sequences notwithstanding, it was a really simple story with relatively low stakes and a small number of reasonably fleshed-out characters.

Probably you’re right. Also “nick” is British slang for “steal.”

I can’t post pictures seemingly. The point is he’s a weatherbeaten sheriff type.