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Get in kids, we're headed back to Spice World. Doom Part 2 is here and it's the year's first big movie. Denyville Nove's sweeping, soaring, space epic stars Timothy Chalamay and Zandaya,

and it delivers plenty of spaceships and big explosions

like any good sci-fi blockbuster should, but the film also tackles themes of

rebellion, religion, and the use and abuse of political power. I'm Glenn Weldon and today we're talking about Dune Part 2 on Pop Culture Happy Hour from NPR.

Joining me today is Wailin Wong.

She's the co-host of NPR's Daily Economics Podcast, The Indicator from Planet Money, Hey Wayland.

Hello.

Hello, welcome back.

Also with this is NPR Senior Editor Bilal Kerezhi Hey Bilal.

Hey, great to have you.

Rounding out the panel is filmmaker pop culture critic and I heart radio producer

Joelle Monique welcome back Joelle. Hey Glenn glad to be back it's always good to

have you so Dune part two is the follow-up of course 2021's dune. Timothy Shalame returns as Paul

Etrades. When last we left Paul, he was stranded in the desert of the planet

Arrakis. He's being protected by the Fremen, Arrakis's native

population. A group called the Harkinans have seized control of the planet.

It's the only source in the universe of the spice which makes interstellar travel possible.

Javier Bardem plays a Fremen tribal leader. he seizes upon one planted prophecy that suggests

someone who acts a lot like Paul might be the Savior who will lead them all in an

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