America’s entertainment industry trades are splattered with headlines all screaming the same sentiment: ‘Deadpool & Wolverine obliterates R-rated record’.

Which is to say, this gigantic superhero movie, starring Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman, with a rating usually associated with movies patronised by gentlemen in black raincoats, has somehow become the biggest thing in Hollywood.

Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman in Deadpool &........

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