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.
Mufasa: 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...
EscucharIt's A Wonderful Life
For a lot of people, It's A Wonderful Life is the Christmas movie. George Bailey's story of learning...
Escuchar2024 Pop Culture Favorites
We check out a lot of things in a given year: Lots of movies, TV shows, and music. Today, we are highlighting...
EscucharBlack Doves
The new Netflix series Black Doves is a pulpy and stylish British spy show starring Keira Knightly and...
EscucharNightbitch And What's Making Us Happy
The new movie Nightbitch stars Amy Adams as an exhausted stay-at-home mom to a toddler. Missing her...
Escuchar2024 Holiday Movie Guide
It's holiday movie season, and there are so many new movies to choose from. So where do you start? We've...
EscucharGreat Movies Under 90 Minutes
What do you do when you need a good movie, but you don't have much time? The answer is that you find...
EscucharThe Madness
In the Netflix series The Madness, Colman Domingo plays a CNN pundit who witnesses a brutal murder,...
EscucharInterior Chinatown
The super-meta Hulu series Interior Chinatown mashes up a whole bunch of genres — including kung fu...
EscucharMoana 2 And What's Making Us Happy
In the hit Disney film Moana, a girl (Auli'i Cravalho) finally gets her chance to see more of the world....
EscucharThe Piano Lesson
You may not see Denzel Washington in the new Netflix film adaptation of the August Wilson play The Piano...
EscucharA Man On The Inside
The charming Netflix sitcom A Man on the Inside stars Ted Danson as a lonely widower who's hired by...
EscucharWicked And What's Making Us Happy
The musical Wicked is a bold, revisionist take on The Wizard of Oz. It imagines that back in college,...
EscucharGladiator II
The new film Gladiator II is a sequel to Gladiator, Oscar-winning swords-and-sandals blockbuster that...
EscucharA Real Pain
The moving dramedy A Real Pain stars Jesse Eisenberg and Kieran Culkin as two very different cousins...
EscucharThe Best Musical Movie Numbers
If you've ever loved a movie musical, then you've probably got a favorite movie musical number — a...
EscucharRed One And What's Making Us Happy
In the deeply goofy Christmas action comedy Red One, the holiday season comes to an emergency halt when...
EscucharSay Nothing
One night in Belfast in 1972, a mother of ten was abducted from her home in front of her children and...
EscucharEmilia Pérez
Emilia Pérez is Netflix's new divisive musical about a Mexican cartel boss who disappears from the...
EscucharCan't Sleep? Catch Some ZZZs With These Songs
There are songs you want to groove to, and songs you want to pump up to. But sometimes, you just want...
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