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Handicapping The Fate of the Furious on Pop Culture Happy Hour

April 21, 2017Chris Klimek

I'm on Pop Culture Happy Hour today for the first time since our bummed-out post-election Pop Culture Serotonin Spectacular. And it was all the way back in December 2015 that I last shared the studio with the great Gene Demby of the Code Switch blog and podcast, when we handicapped Star Wars: The Force Awakens. I always feel things have gone well when I'm with Gene; he's a calming presence I guess. Most of this week's episode was recorded live on stage in Chicago at last week, and neither Gene not I were present for that, so we're in the first segment only. The topic is The Fate of the Furious, a film I reviewed... unfavorably.

categories movies, podcasts
tags Vin Diesel, Linda Holmes, Gene Demby, Stephen Thompson, F. Gary Gray, Jessica Reedy, Pop Culture Happy Hour, NPR, MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE, MAD MAX: FURY ROAD

Diesel Fumes: The Fate of the Furious, reviewed.

April 13, 2017Chris Klimek

Xander Cage as Dominic Toretto. (Universal)

We all know the inexplicably prolonged Fast & Furious series can't touch Mad Max: Fury Road or even its closer competitor the Mission: Impossible franchise, right? We all know that?

Even by the series' own standards of allegedly intentional badness, the new The Fate of the Furious is a sour lemon. (136 minutes, four good scenes.) Here's my NPR review.

categories movies
tags F. Gary Gray, Vin Diesel, The Fast and the Furious, NPR, film reviews, Jason Statham, Charlize Theron