Glen Weldon

Glen Weldon appears in the following:

'Raya And The Last Dragon' Soars

Friday, March 05, 2021

A nuanced, flawed hero lends the latest Disney animated feature surprising depth, even if its grab-bag depiction of a world drawn from Southeast Asian cultures feels shallow.

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Animated Series 'Pacific Rim: The Black' Gets Grit In The Gears

Thursday, March 04, 2021

Netflix's new animated series takes the cheesiness out of Guillermo del Toro's giant-robots-vs.-giant-monsters franchise; more's the pity.

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The Intimate, Quietly Moving 'Supernova' Lets Its Stars Shine

Tuesday, February 16, 2021

A gay couple (Colin Firth and Stanley Tucci) take a trip through Great Britain's Lake District as they deal with the knowledge that one of them is dying.

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'Resident Alien': The Truth Is Way, Way Out There

Wednesday, January 27, 2021

The great Alan Tudyk gets a role he can sink his sharp pointy alien teeth into on a darkly funny series boasting an ensemble cast of characters with surprisingly nuanced interpersonal histories.

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Let HBO's 'Painting With John' Gouache Over You

Friday, January 22, 2021

Watching musician/actor John Lurie paint and grumbly pontificate in an unnamed tropical locale is sometimes puzzling, often intriguing and always soothing.

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'WandaVision': The Next Era Of The MCU Will Be Televised

Friday, January 15, 2021

The latest entry in the Marvel Cinematic Universe has been downsized to fit the television screen — and pay loving, sharply observed homage to TV sitcoms of different eras in the process.

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'Wonder Woman 1984' And The One-Villain-Too-Many Problem

Wednesday, December 23, 2020

The sequel to 2017's Wonder Woman is bright, entertaining, frequently funny — and overstuffed with villain backstories that crowd out the action.

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NPR Critics Pick Their Favorite TV From A Strange 2020

Monday, December 14, 2020

If you could watch it at home in 2020, it's here — four NPR critics give their picks for the best in streaming or broadcast TV in a year when current events turned the industry upside down.

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'Wolfwalkers' Is A Rich, Densely Packed Visual Feast

Friday, December 11, 2020

The story is simple, the themes surprisingly complex, and the hand-drawn animation is stunning in this stylish tale of a young girl yearning for freedom.

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In 'Sound Of Metal,' Sudden Hearing Loss Sends A Drummer Reeling

Friday, December 04, 2020

Riz Ahmed gives a quiet, intense and profoundly unsentimental performance as a rock drummer who suddenly loses his hearing and stubbornly refuses to accept it.

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From 'Dash And Lily' To Dolly Parton: These Holiday Specials Will Bring On The Cheer

Friday, November 27, 2020

Linda Holmes and Glen Weldon from NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour talk about their favorite 2020 holiday TV specials.

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'Uncle Frank': A Melodramatic Meal, Undercooked And Over-Seasoned

Wednesday, November 25, 2020

A great cast and good intentions can't overcome Alan Ball's rushed, thin story about a closeted gay man returning to his South Carolina hometown in 1974.

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A Tale Of 2 Star Wars Holiday Specials: 2020 (LEGO) Vs. 1978 (Oh, No)

Tuesday, November 17, 2020

The new LEGO Star Wars Holiday Special gently satirizes the franchise, but the 1978 Star Wars Holiday Special nearly killed it.

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'Moonbase 8' Scrubs The Mission

Sunday, November 08, 2020

The Showtime comedy series about three NASA astronauts-in-training at a mock moonbase in the desert vibrates on its own singular wavelength, but never generates laughs.

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'Truth Seekers': Comedy-Horror Haunted By Ghosts, Gags And Satisfying Reveals

Friday, October 30, 2020

Nothing's as it seems in this Amazon series, which (sort of) re-teams Nick Frost and Simon Pegg for a gently funny and sometimes scary tale about a team of paranormal investigators.

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A Flat 'Rebecca' Remake For Netflix Is Haunted By The Ghost Of Hitchcock

Wednesday, October 21, 2020

Netflix's adaptation of Daphne du Maurier's swooning gothic novel strips it of subtext — and sex — and tacks on a ending that misunderstands the "romance" at its center.

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Damned If You Do: Hulu's Less-Than-Marvelous 'Helstrom'

Friday, October 16, 2020

A surfeit of subplots and secondary characters — and a complicated production history — take a minor Marvel occult hero on a journey that turns out to be a dead end.

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Creepy Kids, A Dark Mansion And '80s Fashion: 'The Haunting Of Bly Manor'

Friday, October 09, 2020

The follow-up to Netflix's The Haunting of Hill House series may not be as spooky, but it does manage to wrap up its story in a more satisfying manner.

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FOX's 'NeXt' Is Pretty Chill For A Techno-Thriller

Tuesday, October 06, 2020

A tech CEO (John Slattery) blows the whistle on his own in A.I., which has gained sentience and set out to destroy the human race in FOX's agreeably cheesy techno-thriller.

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'The Boys In The Band': Raging Gracefully

Wednesday, September 30, 2020

Netflix's adaptation of Mart Crowley's 1968 play about a gay birthday party that goes off the rails features hard liquor, sharp tongues and broad types.

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