Chris Klimek

If you're a fan of Mike Flanagan's <em>The Haunting of Hill House </em>and <em>The Haunting of Bly Manor, </em>check out <em>Midnight Mass, </em>available on Netflix.

What's making us happy: A guide for your weekend watching, listening and reading

Linda Holmes, Glen Weldon, Daisy Rosario, Jourdain Searles, Chris Klimek

Each week, the guests and hosts on Pop Culture Happy Hour share what's bringing them joy. Today it's a new French horror movie, Titane, Netflix's Midnight Mass, and the web series Dimension 20.

In <em>No Time to Die</em>, Daniel Craig shows us a James Bond who's gone fishing.

Daniel Craig is the bookend Bond, giving 007's story a beginning — and an end

Chris Klimek

The last James Bond movie to star Daniel Craig is out today; Chris Klimek argues that Craig is the "bookend Bond," showing us 007 at the beginning and end, but never the prime of his career.

Designer Andrea Pitter is competing on season two of <em>Making the Cut.</em>

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What's Making Us Happy: A Guide For Your Weekend Watching, Listening And Reading

Linda Holmes, Glen Weldon, Chris Klimek, Daisy Rosario, Ronald Young Jr.

Each week, the guests and hosts on Pop Culture Happy Hour share what's bringing them joy. Today it's Making the Cut, The Twilight Saga and RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars.

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What's Making Us Happy: A Guide For Your Weekend Watching, Listening And Reading

Linda Holmes, Glen Weldon, Chris Klimek, Vincent Schilling

A top-secret cache of sperm is stored under the Space Needle in Hot White Heist. Bob Odenkirk stars as a suburban dad with a secret identity in Nobody. And it's Criterion Collection's neonoir month.

Schofield (George MacKay) gets entrenched in Sam Mendes' <em>1917</em>.

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'1917' Is Gripping, Visceral And Strangely Beautiful

Chris Klimek

Sam Mendes' technique — stringing together a series of long takes to seem continuous, as if the story's events unfold in real time — makes for a "wholly absorbing cinematic experience."

In <em>Dolemite Is My Name</em>, Eddie Murphy leads the star-studded biopic about Rudy Ray Moore whose iconic alter ego became a Blaxploitation legend.

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A Breezy Look At The Making Of A Blaxploitation Classic: 'Dolemite Is My Name'

Chris Klimek

In this 'buoyant but slight' Netflix film, Eddie Murphy plays comic Rudy Ray Moore, who found blaxploitation stardom in the persona of the swaggering Dolemite.

More like <em>DAD</em> <em>Astra</em> am I right? Brad Pitt stars as astronaut Roy McBride chasing the ghost of his father across an unforgiving solar system in <em>Ad Astra. </em>

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'Ad Astra' Soars

Chris Klimek

Distance — both interplanetary and emotional — is the subject of James Gray's "stirring sci-fi epic" that stars Brad Pitt and Tommy Lee Jones.