MOVIE TIP

Deadpool & Wolverine

And the award for best comedy of the summer goes to … “Deadpool & Wolverine”! I’m not a big fan of superhero flicks, but the “Deadpool” series is an exception because of its irreverent, often-movie-world-insider one-liners. And Ryan Reynolds is an absolute ace at delivering them. This time around, his Deadpool has a brooding sidekick in Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine; talk about a dream team. Their goal is saving humanity, as far as I can tell. I wish there were less mythology to drag the movie down in the middle (it’s something about Emma Corrin’s villainess, who can invade people’s brains, and she lives in a Mad Max hellscape, and blah blah blah). The fight scenes are gory but also more inventive than most; particularly amusing is one with Deadpool going mano-a-mano with Wolverine, all inside a minivan. Is it too soon to plan for a sequel?

— Kristina Dorsey

FOOD TIP

Bugles Cinnamon Toast Crunch Crispy Corn Snacks

“False Flag ops” is a phrase conspiracy folks love to toss out there to an almost disturbing level. However, I’ve uncovered a conspiracy/false flag operation that puts the Q back in Qook! To wit: The Manhattan Project was supposedly created to make an atomic bomb. And it did. BUT! The REAL reason those scientists were gathered was to use the bomb-work as a cover for their real purpose: to take two separate and already-perfect products — Bugles (the tasty cone-shaped corn munchable!) and Cinnamon Toast Crunch (cinnamon and sugar-dusted breakfast wheat squares!) — and fuse them together into one delicious and addictive product. Success! They pulled it off! Buy now! Snack happily and plentifully! They’re widely distributed and a 30-ounce bag costs about $20.

— Rick Koster

MOVIE TIP

Twisters

I never say this, but I wanted more special effects. There are tornados at various points during “Twisters,” but it’s not till the end that I was wowed by the CGI of it all. Daisy Edgar-Jones plays a meteorologist who gives up storm chasing when she is one of the few survivors of a chase gone wrong. (She was testing a theory about a way to get the moisture out of a tornado, thereby collapsing it and saving the world from high-wind damage.) She is brought out of retirement, as it were, by her pal played by Anthony Ramos. They run into a hollering, livestreaming rebel group led by Tyler. Glen Powell plays Tyler as if it were, well, the Glen Powell role, meaning he’s the strutting, grinning, self-confident alpha male who softens thanks to the attention of a good woman. The 1996 antecedent, “Twister,” is a better flick, but this new one still serves its purpose as a summer blockbuster.

— Kristina Dorsey