Your Friday Five For May 30-June 3

Let’s rank stuff!

We are now ranking things, every Friday. We will attempt to stick to rankings of things that have some sort of connection to the news of that week, but we can’t guarantee anything. Want us to rank something? Put it in the responses, or email us at williamfleitch@yahoo.com.

David Cronenberg Movies

1. The Fly (1986)
2. Dead Ringers (1988)
3. A History of Violence (2005)
4. The Dead Zone (1983)
5. Videodrome (1983)
6. Crash (1996)
7. Scanners (1981)
8. Maps to the Stars (2014)
9. Eastern Promises (2007)
10. Naked Lunch (1991)
11. Cosmopolis (2012)
12. A Dangerous Method (2011)
13. Spider (2002)
14. M. Butterfly (1993)
15. eXistenZ (1999)

I’ll confess to not having seen The Brood or either one of the Crimes of the Futures, the second of which opens this week.

NBA Finals MVP Candidates, Ranked by How Happy You Should Be If They Win

1. Stephen Curry
2. Jayson Tatum
3. Klay Thompson
4. Al Horford
5. Jordan Poole
6. Draymond Green
7. Jaylen Brown

This is going to be a fun series. (But root for the Warriors, obviously.)

Deadlier Mass Shootings in the United States Over the Last Six Years Than the Horrific One at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas Last Week

1. Las Vegas, 2017 (61 dead)