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This made me giggle

Asked my wife, who's only seen two films in the MCU (Captain America 1 and Thor 2), to name #InfinityWar characters. It went about as well as we expected. pic.twitter.com/ICK8n8geFC

— Gabrielle Regan-Waters (@gabregan) May 7, 2018

...and this is the truest of the true!

By age 35 you should have reached that stage of time confusion where you're convinced the 90s was only 10 years ago.

— Jen Williams (@sennydreadful) May 21, 2018

More after the jump including going viral, famous parents, hot takes on Solo and Book Club, and one haunting Cannes leftover...

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Deadpool 2 Opens Big, Book Club Counterprograms.

Weekend Box Office (May 18th-20th)
W I D E 800+ screens	L I M I T E D excluding prev. wide
Deadpool 2	Disobedience
1.🔺Deadpool 2 $125 *NEW*	1.🔺 RBG $1.2 on 375 screens (cum. $3.8)  REVIEW
2. Avengers Infinity War $28.6 (cum. $595) REVIEW	2.🔺 Disobedience $498k on 247 screens (cum. $1.8) REVIEW
3.🔺Book Club $12.5 *NEW* REVIEW	3.🔺 Pope Francis - A Man of His Word $480k on 346 screens *NEW*
4. Life of the Party  $7.7 (cum. $31)	4.🔺  2001: A Space Odyssey $200k on 4 screens RE-RELEASE
5. Breaking In $6.4 (cum. $28.7) REVIEW	5.The Rider $169 on 90 screens (cum. $1.1) REVIEW

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Review: "Book Club"

by Chris Feil

2018 summer superhero movie season has peaked, now with the arrival of its definitive chapter: Book Club, where Diane Keaton, Jane Fonda, Candice Bergen, and Mary Steenburgen read Fifty Shades of Grey and reclaim the romance in their lives. Think they can’t handle not one but a slew of Thanoses? Well, consider that they are also teaming up with four Oscars, six Emmys, twelve Golden Globes, and several cases of pinot grigio.

Steenburgen is the entrepreneurial straight shooter Carol, the one most in tuned to her own needs but perhaps not to others’. As Sharon, Candice Bergen battles her timid seriousness against the need for a new beginning. Fonda’s Vivian is the group individualist, drinking rosé when the rest prefer white, hating everyone else’s favorite book selections. And Diane Keaton as... Diane (it’s really something to see Diane Keaton do Diane Keaton drag) is the guarded one, initially seeming to be the least distinct character but ultimately reveals a woman burying much of what she thinks and feels.

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Yes No Maybe So: "Book Club"

by Nathaniel R

First things first: how utterly fabulous does Jane Fonda look in the trailer for Book Club? She's 80 (!!!) Don Johnson isn't even 70 year but he should be so lucky. She looks great as a ginger. 

Now that the mandatory Jane worship is out of the way (I just saw Klute again -which is a renewal of breathless fandom for her gifts every time), let's break down the trailer for this romantic comedy of sorts about four golden girls who aren't willing to stop living and are dating again. Whilst they read books? We're really not sure how the books fit into it to be honest. Neither is the trailer...

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