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What's making us happy: A guide for your weekend watching and listening
Friday, November 19, 2021
Each week, the guests and hosts on NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour share what's bringing them joy. This week: the new season of Locke & Key, The Untamed and more.
What's Making Us Happy: A Guide For Your Weekend Watching, Listening And Reading
Saturday, November 06, 2021
Each week, the guests and hosts on NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour share what's bringing them joy. This week: the new season of We're Here, the anime Parasyte, the 2020 horror film Host and more.
'Eternals': A Marvel movie for everyone who complains about Marvel movies
Saturday, October 30, 2021
Indie director Chloe Zhao's influence is all over the new Marvel outing, a marked departure from the familiar MCU formula.
In 'Last Night In Soho,' Edgar Wright Goes Wrong
Thursday, October 28, 2021
Edgar Wright delivers a technically proficient but punishingly contrived genre mashup involving romance, time travel, murder, sex work and nostalgia.
Movie review: 'The French Dispatch'
Friday, October 22, 2021
Watching The French Dispatch is like seeing an issue of The New Yorker come to life. Wes Anderson's new film is based on articles of a fictional magazine published in a fictional city in France.
New LGBTQ+ Storylines in Classic Superhero Franchises
Thursday, October 21, 2021
Glen Weldon joins to discuss comic culture, and the recent trend of writing LGBT storylines into classic superhero franchises.
'The French Dispatch' is a love letter to 'The New Yorker' — and to love itself
Wednesday, October 20, 2021
Wes Anderson's meticulously-constructed tenth feature adopts the format of a New Yorker-like Sunday magazine supplement to tell three very different, but equally idiosyncratic, love stories.
'Dune': A sweeping, spectacular spice-opera — half of one, anyway
Saturday, October 16, 2021
Denis Villeneuve's take on Frank Herbert's novel of galactic intrigue and revolution manages to be both epic and introspective, though it doles out its story with gravid deliberateness.
Superman's son comes out as bisexual in a new comic. It's a big deal — sort of
Monday, October 11, 2021
DC Comics announced that Superman's teenage son will be romantically involved with a male friend in a comic to be published in November. It's a growing trend.
What's making us happy: A guide for your weekend watching, listening and reading
Friday, October 08, 2021
Each week, the guests and hosts on Pop Culture Happy Hour share what's bringing them joy. Today it's a new French horror movie, Titane, Netflix's Midnight Mass, and the web series Dimension 20.
5 things to know about the MCU's first openly gay super-powered character
Monday, October 04, 2021
A new trailer confirmed that Eternals will feature Phastos, a gay character played by Brian Tyree Henry, who's married with a kid. Never heard of him? You're not alone.
What's making us happy: A guide for your weekend watching, listening and reading
Friday, October 01, 2021
Each week, the guests and hosts on Pop Culture Happy Hour share what's bringing them joy. Today it's a profile of Will Smith in GQ, cooking videos from Sohla El-Waylly and The Turnout by Megan Abbott.
What's Making Us Happy: A Guide For Your Weekend Watching, Listening And Reading
Friday, September 24, 2021
Each week, the guests and hosts on Pop Culture Happy Hour share what's bringing them joy. Today it's The Great British Baking Show, The L Word and a couple of essays.
Anime Anthology 'Star Wars: Visions' Expands The Galaxy Far, Far Away
Wednesday, September 22, 2021
The uneven Disney+ series views the Star Wars universe through an anime lens. The result points up the visual potential — and narrative limitations — of the franchise.
What's Making Us Happy: A Guide For Your Weekend Watching, Listening And Reading
Friday, September 17, 2021
Each week, the guests and hosts on Pop Culture Happy Hour share what's bringing them joy. Today it's Run the World, the card game Taco Cat Goat Cheese Pizza and coverage of the Theranos trial.
New Movies And TV Shows To Watch At Home This Fall
Wednesday, September 15, 2021
Our critics collected the most anticipated TV shows and movies coming to your screens over the next few months, and with our new tool you can search by release date, genre and where you can watch it.
What's Making Us Happy: A Guide For Your Weekend Watching, Listening And Reading
Friday, September 10, 2021
Each week, the guests and hosts on Pop Culture Happy Hour share what's bringing them joy. Today it's The Other Two, LuLaRich and a collection of movies starring Josephine Baker.
'Q-Force' Trafficks In Queer Stereotypes — Then Drives Through Them
Thursday, September 02, 2021
Netflix's animated series about a queer spy-team is full of in-jokes and knowing references (and stereotypes) but it does surprisingly nuanced work developing the group's interpersonal relationships.
In Twisty 'Only Murders In The Building,' True Crime Makes Good Neighbors
Tuesday, August 31, 2021
A trio of Upper West Side neighbors and true-crime devotees stumbles upon an actual murder and proceeds to make a podcast about it in this shrewdly funny Hulu series.
What's Making Us Happy: A Guide For Your Weekend Watching, Listening And Reading
Friday, August 27, 2021
Each week, the guests and hosts on Pop Culture Happy Hour share what's bringing them joy. Today it's Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated, Enlightened, "Vax That Thang Up."
