The New Normal

...And so, two more school shootings this week.  Someone commented that one of the attendees at one of these high schools was asked by a reporter a rather standard question along the lines of "Did you think that this would happen here?"  Now, the standard answer they used to give was, of course, a no.  Instead, she said yes this time... okay!  Let's move on to something else.  We got footage of any cute puppies?  How about that squirrel on a teeny tiny jetski?  Something, anything, for God's sake!
Anyway, back to the box office, the usual purpose for these little blog droppings of mine.  As expected, Deadpool 2 was the big winner this weekend.  Hard to say what impact this will have on star Ryan Reynolds' career.  He's got another big hit on his hands, and another opportunity to star in five bad movies until Deadpool 3 comes out.  So Marvel's got plenty of representation this week... sorry, not so fast.  Black Panther dropped out of the Top 10.  It's just Avengers for the PG-13 crowd, and the latest Deadpool for the NC-17 crowd; you know it's true.
But Deadpool wants to be magnanimous, in the one week before the next Star Wars story comes out... I've been watching a few of the commercials for Solo: A Star Wars kinda Story, and I couldn't help but notice that they're trying to show as few clips of the new guy replacing Harrison Ford as possible.  I mean, I loved the guy, Alden Ehrenreich in Hail Caesar! and all that, but... I'm just saying.  In the Movie SATs, what Brandon Routh is to Christopher Reeve, Alden Ehrenreich is NOT to Harrison Ford!! 
Anyway, Deadpool didn't want to suck all the air out of the room, and so we've got a few other debuts this week.  First is something called Book Club.  It was directed by Robert Redford's new Sydney Pollack, Bill Holderman.  Now, we may never know how influential a little something called Boynton Beach Club was in the scheme of things, but wasn't Susan Seidelman ahead of the curve a little bit?  No credit whatsoever?  Anyway, reading from the IMDb Plot Description of Book Club, it's about a bunch of older women in a book club whose lives are changed by "50 Shades of Grey."  Diane Keaton is in this, and I couldn't help but think of a previous effort of hers called Mad Money, which includes a cameo or two from Jim Cramer, the host of a CNBC show of the same name.  Diane likes her cultural references all right!  The more current, the better.