Pop Culture Happy Hour: "F1 the Movie"

Damson Idris and Brad Pitt are the hot young prospect and the grizzled old vet in F1. (Warner Bros.)

I was in Las Vegas in September and December of 2023 for U2’s Achtung Baby show at Sphere, and saw the infrastructure going up for the Vegas F1 race that was photographed for what I must evidently refer to at least once as F1® The Movie. In our Pop Culture Happy Hour dissection of it I likened it to Bull Durham, which does a far better version of the same old-dog-clashes-with-young-dog thing. I had a good time discussing this vroom-vroom flick with old friends Linda Holmes and Ronald Young, Jr., and new friend — and F1-the-tradmarked-racing-league expert — Maria Sherman.