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Pop Culture Happy Hour

by NPR

Great Movies We Missed

16.12.2025 • 00:19:04

Every year, we like to take a moment to look back and spotlight a few favorite films we didn’t have time to talk about. Today, we're making recommenda...

Mailbag: The Movies We Walked Out Of

14.12.2025 • 00:14:55

Aisha and Stephen answer a mailbag question! Send in your own questions at [email protected], and we may answer it in a future bonus episode. This usually...

Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery and What’s Making Us Happy

12.12.2025 • 00:27:53

Netflix’s Wake Up Dead Man is the third installment in the Knives Out franchise. Daniel Craig returns as detective Benoit Blanc -- with a cast of susp...

Jay Kelly

10.12.2025 • 00:21:56

In Netflix’s Jay Kelly, George Clooney plays the aging movie star Jay Kelly. His longtime manager (Adam Sander) and publicist (Laura Dern) struggle to...

The Worst Christmas Movies

09.12.2025 • 00:24:18

‘Tis the season you’ll find plenty of good holiday movies – films that can be counted upon to deliver warmth and cheer. And bad holiday movies? They c...

The Abandons

08.12.2025 • 00:12:30

In Netflix’s The Abandons, Gillian Anderson and Lena Headey play two steely matriarchs that face off on the American frontier. But don’t let the spurs...

Five Nights at Freddy’s 2 and What’s Making Us Happy

05.12.2025 • 00:17:37

In the new film Five Nights at Freddy’s 2, Josh Hutcherson returns as the protagonist trying to survive in a haunted children’s restaurant called Fred...

2025 Pop Culture Favorites

04.12.2025 • 00:43:28

It’s been a great year for TV, movies, and music. And we are highlighting some of the best, including KPop Demon Hunters, Sinners, and Severance. We’l...

Rereading Pride & Prejudice

02.12.2025 • 00:27:56

This year, readers around the world are celebrating Jane Austen’s 250th birthday. Today we’ve got an episode of NPR’s Books We’ve Loved where Linda Ho...

Hamnet

01.12.2025 • 00:16:56

Hamnet tells the fictionalized account of the lives of William Shakespeare and his wife, played by Paul Mescal and Jessie Buckley. They fall in love, ...