In a moment of bone-chilling honesty, Chris Jones admits thinking, “I can’t believe I was shooting farmers in Afghanistan while these fu**ers are still breathing back home.” For Jones, January 6 was not a wakeup call -- rather, it served as a confirmation of a successful coup d’état of American armed services indoctrinated into a far-right ideology akin to fascism.

When Costner gambles, he rarely loses. Maybe it is divine intervention; maybe it is a long run of dumb, prolonged luck, but reality proves that Costner’s “My Way or the Highway” approach to Hollywood stardom resonates with audiences. Whether it's his love of sports, his gift for playing stubbornly, or his wry smile that signals to audiences he may be rough around the edges, but he is a good guy.

What really holds the movie up is that the writing is the sharpest of all three Deadpool movies and it does a great job of poking fun at Disney’s recent fumbles with Marvel movies. It also acts as a sendoff for many of the Fox-produced Marvel movie characters, and I’d be lying if I said all those cameos weren’t fun to watch.

The Punishment does a lot with a simple premise, a small cast, and no real sets. It shows that you can make a good movie out of the simplest premise with the right combination of fine writing, cinematography, and acting.

Is the third season of The Bear good? Absolutely. It may seem like a filler season that is meant to set up a bunch of events for the future, which results in an underwhelming finale. But It also builds much higher expectations for the fourth season, which I hope that can live up to the show’s high standards.

It’s important to remember that the reduction of stories to singular talking points is a blunder committed by all sides of the political spectrum and ultimately makes us lose out on the beauty of storytelling, the way in which we reflect upon not only on the argument made by the medium in question, but the dialogue we have with it.