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Carl Weathers and the professional athletes who became actorsActing and sports have a lot in common. It takes a ton of body control to do either, both are consumed by millions, and the biggest stars usually have a ton of charisma. These are the athletes who broke out of their sports and became big stars in Hollywood. ...

We've found Jake (or Logan) Paul's next opponent

<i>X-Men: Apocalypse</i>'s Biggest Disappointment Is The Villainous PruneAs we’ve noted before, the pleasure of a superhero blockbuster lies in watching familiar, inevitable tropes refashioned in mildly refreshing ways. The people making these films are tasked not with outright originality but with clever recombination. How do we make the good guys defeat the bad guys—be...

"Killed by my eyes! My cursed, mutant, energy-blasting eyes!"

Bought a pile of Classic X-Men for 50 cents apiece and came across this gem in context....

Time Is Not A Flat Circle: <em>X-Men: Days Of Future Past</em>, Reviewed

1. X-Men: Days of Future Past feels like one of those special-edition comic books that takes all the characters we know and love, drops them in some sort of parallel universe (so the storyline's ramifications don't affect the current canon timeline), and shakes up both the plot and those characters ...

Declawed. <em>The Wolverine</em>, Reviewed.

The Wolverine feels less like a blockbuster than a well-turned piece of brand management. Everything in the film has been made with care, a certain amount of taste and intelligence, and such bland competence that what's most striking about it is how safe it is. The filmmakers have taken one of the m...

The Anti-KStew: In Praise Of Jennifer Lawrence

There are many ways to tell if you've become a popular actress. Your name appears above the title on the poster. You're on the covers of magazines. You get an Oscar nomination. Those are all pretty great things. Then, there are those other ways of finding out that you're popular. These are a lot les...

The Ragin' Cajuns Beat Western Kentucky In Overtime By Playing 6-On-5

We're not surprised the Sun Belt officials escaped the court quickly after this blunder, where they allowed Louisiana-Lafayette to enjoy the rare basketball power play, in which they clearly put six men on the floor for their final possession of overtime—allowing them to score the winning basket ...