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Pop Culture Happy Hour: "Superman"

Chris Klimek

David Corenswet is your new Last Son of Krypton. (Jessica Miglio)

One of my earliest Pop Culture Happy Hour appearances was to discuss 2013’s Man of Steel, a film I liked more than my pals Linda Holmes and Glen Weldon. My willingness to stick up for a movie that Looper, The Last Jedi and Knives Out writer/director Rian Johnson would later tell me was “the first film [he’d] ever paid to see in the theater,” became a big part of my identity on the show for several years thereafter. So it was only right that I’m back on this week to chop up the new Superman from writer/director James Gunn, which the three of us all liked a lot. But lest any opportunity for fake antagonism between Glen and me go untapped, let me say that my original greeting upon being introduced in this episode was “I like pink very much, Linda.” And so it would have stayed had Glen not ratted me out by pointing out that that line from Richard Donner’s 1978 Superman was in reference to… Lois Lanes underwear. (She invited Superman to look! Check the tape!)

And if that ain’t enough Glen-and-Chris-jaw-about-Kal action for you, FIimspotting just resurfaced our Top Five Batman/Superman Moments segment from nine years ago, tied to the release of 2016’s Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice — the single film Gunn’s bright, buoyant new Superman is most intended to course-correct. My No. 1 was of course that selfsame pink-knickers balcony scene from Superman ‘78.

Pop Culture Happy Hour: "MIssion: Impossible — The Final Reckoning"

Chris Klimek

When you stare into The Abyss, etc., etc. (Paramount)

When you watch 2018’s Mission: Impossible — Fallout, you can see the shot wherein Tom Cruise breaks his ankle leaping across London rooftops.

When you listen to our new Pop Culture Happy Hour on Mission: Impossible — The Final Recknoning, you can hear the moment when I suffer an aneurysm. It’s when my friends Aisha Harris and Linda Holmes once again compare these films to the Fast & Furious movies. And they are like those, in the sense that the 1969 Rolling Stones and circa 2012 Aerosmith are both rock bands.

Pop Culture Happy Hour: "Road House"

Chris Klimek

Look at what you can learn to do from watching Road House. (Laura Radford)

This week, I interviewed Pulitzer Prize winner and MacArthur “Genius” grantee playwright Suzan-Lori Parks and chopped up the new Doug Liman-directed, Gyllenhaal-headlined Road House with pals Linda Holmes and Aisha Harris. Like itinerant philosophy grad Dalton from Road House ‘89 , I contain multitudes. Or at least severalitudes.

Pop Culture Happy Hour: "Ferrari"

Chris Klimek

Two-hander* PCHH episodes are somewhat rare, but I was glad to be able to take part in one with pal Linda Holmes about Michael Mann’s new biopic Ferrari. That it was just the two of us allowed for some discussion of how the movie fits into the 80-year-old auteur’s filmography that we might not have gotten to with a larger panel.

Other critics who on the whole love Mann’s work as much as I do have taken more from this picture than I did. As you’ll hear, I found it to be surprisingly staid and conventional, coming from the guy who’s only other biopic was Ali, 22 years ago, and whose prior feature — almost nine years ago! — was Blackhat, a little-seen thriller that was at least as exciting as it was disjointed. In my City Paper review, I called Ferrari “a sensible sedan of a movie,” which I think fits. Good movie, but I don’t think it’s even as exceptional as Ali, never mind Heat or The Insider or Thief. As always, I’m open to revising my opinion upward upon a second viewing.

*I still don’t get why two-actor plays are called “two-handers” instead of “four-handers.”

Pop Culture Happy Hour: "Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One"

Chris Klimek

IMF lifers Tom Cruise and Christopher McQuarrie always wanted to crash a train together. (Paramount)

it’s an honor and a privilege to dissect the latest entry in my favorite film franchise with Linda Holmes, Wailin Wong, and Roxanna Hadadi on today’s Pop Culture Happy Hour. My estimation of the film grew when I saw it a second time after we recorded this, but it’s an accurate reflection of my somewhat perplexed initial response.

POP CULTURE HAPPY HOUR: "Plane" and What's Making Us Happy

Chris Klimek

Gerry B. and Mikey C. get serious in Plane, a movie.

I heard that if you go to see Plane on Broadway, stars Gerard “Leonidas, King of Sparta” Butler and Mike “Luke Cage, Hero For Hire” Colter trade roles every night.

Pals Linda Holmes, Ronald Young, Jr. and I had a sublimely fun conversation about this somewhat fun passengers-in-trouble flick.

Pop Culture Happy Hour: "The Gray Man"

Chris Klimek

Ryan Gosling did a lot of hahaha training for the not-so-colorful thrillerThe Gray Man. (Paul Abell/Netflix)

Look, I cohost a podcast about The Prisoner. When a new international espionage-themed thriller appears with a lead character named Six, I have to pay attention. The Netflick The Gray Man is one of two new releases this month containing what I believe to be a deliberate Prisoner reference. The other one is Marcel, the Shell with Shoes On.

I loved Captain America: Civil War and The Nice Guys and Blade Runner 2049 and Knives Out. I appreciated No Time to Die. I wanted to love, or at least appreciate, The Gray Man. I tried to.

A Degree Absolute! episode thirty-eight: "A Time to Kill" with Linda Holmes

Chris Klimek

Matty McC meets Patty McG, in the battle you didn’t know you wanted to McSee!

A Time to Kill, the fourth big-studio adaptation of a John Grisham legal thriller to hit theaters in a 37-month period during the first Clinton Administration, is not a great showcase for our man Patty McG. There are just too many high-caliber, high-profile, and high-maintenance players in its stacked cast, and probably too much studio pressure for him to get away with anything weird. (Braveheart, released 14 months earlier, was a long time ago.) Company-man director Joel Schumacher seems to have saved all his creative chits for putting nipples on Batsuits in this era, turning in a serviceable but unshowy piece of work the summer in between Batman Forever and Batman and Robin. He sure does like to spray his actors with baby oil, though.

The good news is that our friend Linda Holmes is back this episode, lending her quadruple-threat expertise as (in increasing order of significance) a Sandra Bullock expert, and Grisham expert, an actual-albeit-no-longer-practicing lawyer, and of course as a world-class critic to our examination of the picture. Join us, won’t you, on this jurisprudent journey back to nineteen-niner-six.

A Time to Kill

Screenplay by Akiva Goldsman, adapted from John Grisham’s novel

Directed by Joel Schumacher

Released July 24, 1996

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Music and Lyrics by Chris Klimek

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