Colin's quite fond of : Tom Cruise was five years older during the production of Mission: Impossible -- Fallout than Wilford Brimley was during the filming of Cocoon. And it seems we're all okay with Tom Cruise as a 56-year-old action star. Fallout's opening weekend was the biggest and the second-biggest .
Fallout is too. If you had to pick the five best blockbusters of this decade, you could put together a totally reasonable list made just of Tom Cruise movies. (Here, look: Edge of Tomorrow, Jack Reacher, and the last three Mission: Impossibles. See?) In fact, at this point, if you like high-concept summer popcorn movies, but you don't like comic books/Star Wars/Star Trek/Harry Potter/etc.... what else even is there besides Tom Cruise movies anymore? Not much.
Other stuff that happened this week, give or take:
Until last week, the world of science was unaware of the scutoid.- (PDF link)
This [real, actually published, scientific] paper explores the physics of the what-if question "what if the entire Earth was instantaneously replaced with an equal volume of closely packed, but uncompressed blueberries?"
Some disordered and lost souls keep saying hot dogs are sandwiches. They are wrong, and here's why.
Everything swells when it's hot out.
A Virginia Republican who has been linked to white supremacists now faces accusations of liking Bigfoot erotica.
Also: Carrie Fisher died going on two years ago.
Stan Lee just turned up in the last place longtime fans of his many Marvel film cameos would expect -- an animated movie from DC Entertainment.
Jerome Jacobson and his network of mobsters, psychics, strip-club owners, and drug traffickers won almost every prize for 12 years, until the FBI launched Operation 'Final Answer.'
A graphic novel has made the longlist of the Man Booker Prize, Britain's most prestigious literary award. The nomination marks a major breakthrough for the format.
Surprise level: zero. Interest level: also zero.- The Ringer's
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