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.
F1 And What's Making Us Happy
If you like cars that go fast, you'll be glad to know they go very fast in F1 The Movie. The film stars...
EscucharBest Pixar Movies, Ranked
It's been nearly 30 years since Toy Story kicked off a historic run of animated films. So now seemed...
Escuchar28 Years Later And What's Making Us Happy
The new apocalyptic horror film 28 Years Later takes place in the same world as 28 Days Later, where...
EscucharWatch This: Pee-Wee As Himself
The new HBO documentary Pee-Wee As Himself isn't the boilerplate Hollywood profile you think it is....
EscucharThe Life of Chuck
Stephen King's work has often contemplated the inevitability of death. But his latest adaptation, The...
EscucharMaterialists
Should you date for love or financial security? That's the central premise of the new movie Materialists....
EscucharHow to Train Your Dragon
Disney has been remaking its animated classics for years to great financial success– Lilo & Stitch...
EscucharAlmost Famous
In Almost Famous, writer and director Cameron Crowe looks at the ecosystem surrounding a rising rock...
EscucharSummer Blockbusters
Fifty years ago Steven Spielberg's Jaws was released in theaters, kicking off the summer blockbuster...
EscucharThe Phoenician Scheme
Wes Anderson's new film The Phoenician Scheme is classic Wes Anderson, complete with a great cast delivering...
EscucharFrom The World Of John Wick: Ballerina And What's Making Us Happy
John Wick's back in a spinoff new film, Ballerina, starring Ana de Armas. She plays a ballerina-turned-assassin...
EscucharWatch This: Mountainhead
Succession creator Jesse Armstrong is back with Mountainhead, a new movie with characters who are just...
EscucharBring Her Back
The hit Australian horror movie Talk To Me was both very good and deeply unsettling. Now its directors...
EscucharKarate Kid: Legends And What's Making Us Happy
The Karate Kid has been sequelized, serialized, spun off and rebooted, and now it's back, as Karate...
EscucharAre We In A Media Literacy Crisis?
Online discourse has become a fun part of enjoying and dissecting big pop culture events. But after...
EscucharLilo & Stitch
The new Lilo & Stitch is mostly live-action and retells the original Disney animated film's story of...
EscucharThe Last Of Us
Season two of The Last of Us just ended, and to say the story has gone in some new directions is an...
EscucharMission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning And What's Making Us Happy
In Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning, Tom Cruise has to save the world (again). But this time,...
EscucharPost-Credits Scenes
The movie ends, and the credits roll. That used to be your cue to start heading to the parking lot to...
EscucharWatch This: Murderbot
Murderbot is a very smart, very funny new sci-fi comedy series on Apple TV+. It stars Alexander Skarsgård...
Escuchar