Pop Culture Happy Hour
Get obsessed with us. Four 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.
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- Update frequency
- every day
- Average duration
- 20 minutes
- Episodes
- 348
- Years Active
- 2024 - 2025
Wolf 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 have a chance to enjoy a new Wolf Man starring Christopher Abbott and Julia Garner. Directed by …
00:27:13 |
Fri 17 Jan 2025
XO, Kitty
The Netflix series XO, Kitty is a spinoff of the hit YA book and movie franchise, To All the Boys I've Loved Before. The show follows the messy adventures of teenage matchmaker Kitty Song Covey (Anna…
00:16:28 |
Thu 16 Jan 2025
American Primeval
In Netflix's gritty, brutal Western series American Primeval, Betty Gilpin plays a woman determined to get herself and her son across the frontier. But along the way, they find themselves caught up i…
00:18:53 |
Wed 15 Jan 2025
The Best One-Hit Wonders
Some bands are The Beatles and some singers are Beyoncé: Smash after smash, their legend grows. And some artists aren't. For any one of a bunch of reasons — commercial, artistic and mysterious — some…
00:19:34 |
Tue 14 Jan 2025
The 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 of her long career as a dancer in Las Vegas. The film marks a new chapter in the star-crossed acti…
00:25:22 |
Fri 10 Jan 2025
Hot Moms In Film
In the past year, there have been a lot of movies that feature older women falling in love with much younger men. There's The Idea Of You, A Family Affair, Lonely Planet, and Babygirl, just to name a…
00:16:35 |
Thu 09 Jan 2025
Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl
Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl is the latest film in the beloved stop-motion animation series. This time, clueless inventor Wallace and his long-suffering pooch Gromit are dealing with Wallace…
00:16:07 |
Wed 08 Jan 2025
Great Movies We Missed
We covered dozens of new movies in 2024, some we loved, some we didn't, and everything in between. And there are always a few favorites that we don't get a chance to talk about. Today, we're making r…
00:18:07 |
Mon 06 Jan 2025
Nickel Boys
Adapted from the Pulitzer prize-winner novel from Colson Whitehead, Nickel Boys tells the story of two Black boys who form an unshakeable bond at a segregated reform school in the Jim Crow South. It'…
00:28:45 |
Fri 03 Jan 2025
Squid Game
The Korean drama Squid Game became the most popular offering in Netflix's history by combining pitch-black satire of late-stage capitalism with bloody violence. In Season 2, Gi-hun (Lee Jung-jae) win…
00:24:32 |
Wed 01 Jan 2025
2025 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 heights you want to hit. Today, we make pop culture resolutions for 2025, and look back on last yea…
00:30:07 |
Tue 31 Dec 2024
2025 Pop Culture Predictions
Nobody can predict what the future holds, but that doesn't stop us from trying. Trying, that is, to predict what will happen in the world of pop culture in 2025. We do it every year, so we'll look ba…
00:28:40 |
Mon 30 Dec 2024
A 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 to old age, it covers the period shortly after his arrival in New York City, as he first begins to…
00:23:33 |
Fri 27 Dec 2024
Babygirl
In the new movie Babygirl, Nicole Kidman plays a high-powered CEO who has an affair her mysterious intern (Harris Dickinson). Their affair gets complicated by the many power dynamics involved — not j…
00:21:18 |
Thu 26 Dec 2024
Nosferatu
Nosferatu is a Dracula story with a twist. It stars Lily Rose-Depp as a new bride stalked by an evil bloodsucking creature of the night who brings death and terror in its wake. A handful of stalwart …
00:20:32 |
Wed 25 Dec 2024
Juror #2
Some people hate jury duty, but in Clint Eastwood's new film Juror #2, one guy's experience is worse than most. Nicholas Hoult plays a man assigned to serve on a jury who gradually realizes that the …
00:16:23 |
Tue 24 Dec 2024
Laid
The new Peacock series Laid is a very dark rom-com. Stephanie Hsu plays a young woman who discovers that all of her exes have started to die under mysterious, sometimes freakish, circumstances. This …
00:16:20 |
Mon 23 Dec 2024
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. This leads us to Mufasa: The Lion King, a new prequel telling the story of Mufasa's rise —…
00:30:21 |
Fri 20 Dec 2024
Best 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 – particularly if you're going a long way. But picking the right movie can be very tricky. Today, …
00:21:28 |
Thu 19 Dec 2024
Bad Sisters
We first met the Garvey sisters two years ago when the Apple TV+ series Bad Sisters made its debut. The show follows four sisters in Ireland who are hell bent on murdering the husband of the fifth si…
00:09:59 |
Wed 18 Dec 2024
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