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.
One Of Them Days
Keke Palmer is one of Hollywood's most charismatic leads, and SZA is one of the world's biggest pop...
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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...
EscucharThe Last Showgirl And What's Making Us Happy
In the new movie The Last Showgirl, a woman finds herself with few options as she approaches the end...
EscucharHot Moms In Film
In the past year, there have been a lot of movies that feature older women falling in love with much...
EscucharWallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl
Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl is the latest film in the beloved stop-motion animation series....
EscucharGreat Movies We Missed
We covered dozens of new movies in 2024, some we loved, some we didn't, and everything in between. And...
EscucharNickel Boys
Adapted from the Pulitzer prize-winner novel from Colson Whitehead, Nickel Boys tells the story of two...
EscucharSquid Game
The Korean drama Squid Game became the most popular offering in Netflix's history by combining pitch-black...
Escuchar2025 Pop Culture Resolutions And What's Making Us Happy
As a new year arrives, it's only natural to have some goals in mind: What you want to achieve, what...
Escuchar2025 Pop Culture Predictions
Nobody can predict what the future holds, but that doesn't stop us from trying. Trying, that is, to...
EscucharA Complete Unknown and What's Making Us Happy
A Complete Unknown isn't a traditional biopic. Instead of covering Bob Dylan's life story from birth...
EscucharMufasa: The Lion King And What's Making Us Happy
It's been five years since Disney remade its animated classic The Lion King as a photorealistic blockbuster....
EscucharBest Movies To Watch On An Airplane
Watching a movie on a plane can be a great way to pass the time if you're traveling for the holidays...
EscucharBad Sisters
We first met the Garvey sisters two years ago when the Apple TV+ series Bad Sisters made its debut....
EscucharNo Good Deed
Nobody ever said the housing market was easy. In the new Netflix ensemble dark comedy No Good Deed,...
EscucharQueer and What's Making Us Happy
The movie Queer stars Daniel Craig as you've never seen him: as a junkie prowling the streets, hooking...
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