Chris Klimek

Each week, guests and hosts on NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour share what's bringing them joy. This week: the film Hearts of Darkness, the show Interview with the Vampire, and David Mitchell’s audio books.

Each week, guests and hosts on NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour share what's bringing them joy. This week: The show How to Die Alone, the book You Gotta Eat, and Batman on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Each week, guests and hosts on NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour share what's bringing them joy. This week: the show Bel-Air, the video game Thank Goodness You’re Here, and a podcast episode about sweat.

Each week, Pop Culture Happy Hour guests and hosts share what's bringing them joy. This week: the 1980s movie Miami Connection, and the podcasts Blank Check and Depresh Mode.

Each week, guests and hosts on NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour share what's bringing them joy. This week: Lady Audaci-Tea, a summer of good movies and Hair Plugs & Heartache.

Each week, guests and hosts on NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour share what's bringing them joy. This week: Beware the Woman, Dungeons and Drag Queens, and the DVD menu of The Social Network.

Each week, the guests and hosts on NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour share what's bringing them joy. This week: the show Love Life, the podcast The Shrink Next Door and more.

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.

Mariah Carey's "All I Want For Christmas Is You" is back at the top of the chart a quarter century after it was first released. So why haven't there been any lasting Christmas songs to take its place?

A charming cast, some fun twists, and the usual third-act bloat; Avengersmay be over, but this "bright and buoyant" spider-sequel doesn't give you a chance to forget the Marvel formula.

Critic Chris Klimek crunches the numbers to examine how and why blockbuster films like Avengers: Endgame grew to such great, bladder-busting lengths.

"Anyone can wear the mask," the film says, and indeed, multiple characters do — including Miles Morales, the first Afro-Latino Spidey.