Pop Culture Happy Hour
Get obsessed with us. Five days a week, Pop Culture Happy Hour serves you recommendations and commentary on the buzziest movies, TV, music, books, videogames and more. Join arts journalists Linda Holmes, Glen Weldon, Stephen Thompson, and Aisha Harris - plus a rotating cast of guest pop culture aficionados. The Happy Hour team leaves room at the table for exploring a range of reactions and opinions on every bit of the pop universe. From lowbrow to highbrow to the stuff in between, they take it all with a shot of cheer.
The Monkey And What's Making Us Happy
In the new horror-comedy The Monkey, Theo James plays a pair of identical twin brothers who get saddled...
EscucharBridget Jones: Mad About The Boy
For more than 20 years on screen, Bridget Jones has been making her way through dating, working, having...
EscucharWe Fantasy Cast The Traitors
The Peacock reality show The Traitors continues to be a delightful mix of treachery, foolishness, and...
EscucharPaddington In Peru
In the new movie Paddington In Peru, Paddington Bear and the Brown family fly across the globe, into...
EscucharCaptain America: Brave New World And What's Making Us Happy
In the Marvel Cinematic Universe, there's a new Captain America, played by Anthony Mackie. And with...
EscucharThe Substance
The Substance is a bloody, campy, fiercely feminist body horror film. Demi Moore plays a TV aerobics...
EscucharGuide To Great Shows On Network TV
In the age of streaming content and "Prestige TV" it's easy to forget that old school TV networks are...
Escuchar2025 Super Bowl
At this year's Super Bowl, the Philadelphia Eagles beat the Kansas City Chiefs 40-22. During the halftime...
EscucharLove Hurts And What's Making Us Happy
In the new action movie Love Hurts, Oscar-winner Ke Huy Quan stars as a real estate agent who has remade...
EscucharYou're Cordially Invited
In the raunchy movie You're Cordially Invited, Will Ferrell and Reese Witherspoon face a mortifying...
Escuchar2025 Sundance Film Festival: Best Movies
We watched many films at this year's Sundance Film Festival. Today, we're recommending some of the best...
Escuchar2025 Grammys Recap
This year's Grammys was a huge night for Beyoncé, who finally won album of the year for Cowboy Carter....
EscucharCompanion And What's Making Us Happy
In the smart, twisty thriller-comedy Companion, three young couples gather at a swanky lake house for...
EscucharThe Night Agent
An FBI agent working in a lonely, secret office in the White House basement gets a phone call. A woman...
Escuchar2025 Oscar Nominations
This year's Oscar nominations are out, and if you liked Emilia Pérez, Anora, Wicked, The Brutalist,...
EscucharOne Of Them Days
Keke Palmer is one of Hollywood's most charismatic leads, and SZA is one of the world's biggest pop...
EscucharThe Brutalist
The new movie The Brutalist is earning a lot of Oscar buzz. Adrien Brody plays a fictional Hungarian...
EscucharWolf Man And What's Making Us Happy
Everything old is new again, it seems, and there's no reason that wouldn't apply to werewolves. We now...
EscucharAmerican Primeval
In Netflix's gritty, brutal Western series American Primeval, Betty Gilpin plays a woman determined...
EscucharThe Best One-Hit Wonders
Some bands are The Beatles and some singers are Beyoncé: Smash after smash, their legend grows. And...
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