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What's making us happy: A guide to your weekend reading, listening and viewing

Each week, the guests and hosts on NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour share what's bringing them joy. This week: Devil in a Blue Dress, Evil, and more.
Aasif Mandvi as Ben Shakir, Mike Colter as David Acosta, and Katja Herbers as Kristen Bouchard in <em>Evil</em>
Updated August 5, 2022 at 5:44 PM ET

This week, we learned more about what color dinosaurs were, Batgirl got the axe, and Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson was honored with her own bobblehead.

Here's what the NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour crew was paying attention to — and what you should check out this weekend.

Devil in a Blue Dress, Criterion Edition

I'm always complaining that the wrong movies in the last generation got turned into franchises, and I think the people at the Criterion Collection agree with me because they have finally brought out Carl Franklin's wonderful in a 4K edition.

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