Linda Holmes

Each week, the guests and hosts on NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour share what's bringing them joy. This week: game shows and album recommendations.

The Lost City is mostly a chance to watch Sandra Bullock and Channing Tatum be charming and silly together. That turns out to be a pretty good deal.

Pop Culture Happy Hour listeners voted on the top movies of all time to win best picture at the Oscars.

The movie's conceit is right up director Adrian Lyne's alley: a story about the mixing of sex and violence. But the film, starring Ana De Armas and Ben Affleck, is more competent than anything else.

The Netflix movie, directed by Charlie McDowell, follows three unnamed characters played by Jason Segel, Jesse Plemons and Lily Collins. What unfolds is unsettling, suspenseful and very, very tense.

The Apple series 'Severance' is about a group of office workers who have undergone brain surgery that completely separates their memories of work from their memories of their regular lives.

Russia's growing isolation in the cultural world is poignant for those who remember optimistic outreach of the 80s and 90s.

Each week, the guests and hosts on NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour share what's bringing them joy. This week: BTS, Sandra Oh and meditations on humor.

The executive producer of HBO's new series Winning Time is known for his fourth-wall breaking, look-at-the-camera-and-explain style. That approach comes up in Super Pumped, a show he didn't make.

Each week, the guests and hosts on NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour share what's bringing them joy. This week: new music from Drug Church, learning to knit and Judy Greer.

The Screen Actors Guild Awards happened on Sunday night, and a couple of big wins might have implications for the rest of the awards year.

There's a lot that unites these projects: high-profile stars playing people who fell from grace. Specifically, people who shared the trait of having been being ambitious when it came to money.

Each week, the guests and hosts on NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour share what's bringing them joy. This week: True Story With Ed & Randall, a web-based game that isn't Wordle, and more.

The Apple TV+ show might not be as riotous as its roster of comedy stars would suggest, but it's an entertaining murder mystery.

It did not take long for me to conclude that Wordle is a metaphor for life, meaning that you can learn a lot about different ways to see the world from different ways to play Wordle.

Netflix's popular crime series is about to drop the first half of its last season. We look at five questions that hang over these seven episodes, and the seven more that will follow.

The new series The Gilded Age, from the creator of Downton Abbey, takes a big, talented cast to 1882 New York for a story about money and class.

Years after the How I Met Your Mother finale left us with bad feelings, How I Met Your Father is premiering on Hulu. The concept is similar, but the chemistry and quirkiness may be hard to duplicate.

In the season finale of Showtime's Yellowjackets, some of the mysteries of what really happened to the team in 1996 got some resolution. Some didn't. We're here to sort it out.

Twice in the same year, the song "Be My Baby" — featuring the voice of Ronnie Spector, who died this week — became the sound that signaled something memorably, indelibly sexy.