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Jonathan Majors, graduate from the Tom Hardy school of mumble acting
“What feelings do men experience?” There were some stunning replies to this tweet — “homosexuality,” “a yearning for the mines,” “southeast” — and I thought of it frequently while watching Creed III. I was skeptical about this film, as many were: Creed is famously extremely good while Creed II is, comparatively, kind of dogshit. I wasn’t confident in the concept of Michael B. Jordan as a first-time director, for no real reason aside from the fact that I sort of roll my eyes every time a beautiful actor is like, “Time for me to direct.…
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