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Pop Culture Happy Hour: Alien: Covenant and Veep

Chris Klimek

My pal-for-life Glen Weldon is Down Under this week—like Quigley, like Jackman, like Michael J. "Crocodile" Dundee—but I was glad to be part of a reduced Pop Culture Happy Hour panel along with host Linda Holmes and regular Stephen Thompson to dissect the messy but fascinating prequel-sequel Alien: Covenant and to marvel at how the political satire Veep has stayed so strong for six seasons. At the end of the episode, I give a little love to little-loved—by me, anyway—replacement 007 Sir Roger Moore, who passed away this week at the age of 89. You can hear the full episode here or embedded below.

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Yo-Ho, Ho-Hum: Pirates of the Caribbean — Dead Men Tell No Tales, reviewed.

Chris Klimek

Johnny Depp doesn't exactly strain himself in Pirates 5, not that we'd want that. (Disney)

Johnny Depp doesn't exactly strain himself in Pirates 5, not that we'd want that. (Disney)

Sitting down to review the new Pirates of the Caribbean, I knew for a fact that I'd seen all four of the prior movies but I couldn't remember a thing about any of them, except that one had Keith Richards in it for a minute. I expect I'll forget this one, too, though I wouldn't be averse to catching it on a double or triple-bill on a nice summer night at the Bengies Drive-In.

A Split Decision for Chuck

Chris Klimek

Liev Schreiber and Ron Perlman in Philippe Falardeau's Chuck Wepner biopic. (Sarah Shatz/IFC)

Liev Schreiber and Ron Perlman in Philippe Falardeau's Chuck Wepner biopic. (Sarah Shatz/IFC)

Here's my NPR review of Chuck, a biopic about Chuck Wepner, the self-sabotaging New Jersey boxer who inspired Sylvester Stallone to write Rocky.  It ain't bad, but I wanted to love it. Anyway, Rocky already has a wonderful latter-day lega-sequel.

Handicapping The Fate of the Furious on Pop Culture Happy Hour

Chris 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. 

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Diesel Fumes: The Fate of the Furious, reviewed.

Chris Klimek

Xander Cage as Dominic Toretto. (Universal)

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.