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News Articles: Series: Pop Culture Happy Hour

In Netflix's <em>Our Little Secret</em>, Lindsay Lohan plays Avery, a woman spending Christmas with her boyfriend's family — including her ex, who happens to be dating her boyfriend's sister.

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  • Movies

Our 2024 holiday movie guide has you covered, from Hanukkah to 'Hot Frosty'

Grab your blanket, your cocoa, your snuggler of choice – holiday movie season has arrived. Here's a rundown of the standard and not-so-standard offerings you'll find on TV this year.

November 27, 2024
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By:
  • Linda Holmes
Not all movies work at cruising altitude. If you're traveling for the holidays, here's what NPR's pop culture critics suggest to make the time fly by.

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  • Movies

What makes a good airplane movie? Less sex, more clear dialogue

Not all movies work at cruising altitude. If you're traveling for the holidays, here's what NPR's pop culture critics suggest to make the time fly by.

November 23, 2024
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By:
  • Glen Weldon,
  • Linda Holmes,
  • and 2 more
South Korean singer and rapper G-Dragon performs in New York in 2017.

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  • Pop Culture

What's Making Us Happy: A guide to your weekend scrolling, listening and gaming

Each week, guests and hosts on NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour share what's bringing them joy. This week: TikTok Pride and Prejudice, K-pop star G-Dragon, a Disney cover album, and Astro Bot on the PS5.

November 22, 2024
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By:
  • Wailin Wong,
  • Mallory Yu,
  • and 3 more
Galinda (Ariana Grande) and Elphaba (Cynthia Erivo) are opposites in every way, forced to room together at Shiz University.

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  • Movie Reviews

'Wicked' defies gravity, if not time

The movie adaptation of Wicked brings a pop superstar and Tony winner together for career-high performances.

November 20, 2024
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By:
  • Aisha Harris
Lacey Chabert stars as Kathy Barrett in <em>Hot Frosty</em> on Netflix.

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  • Pop Culture

What's Making Us Happy: A guide to your weekend viewing and listening

Each week, guests and hosts on NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour share what's bringing them joy. This week: It's Florida, Man on Max, Young Adult audiobooks and Hot Frosty on Netflix.

November 18, 2024
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By:
  • J.C. Howard,
  • Margaret H. Willison,
  • and 1 more
The first season of <em>Bad Sisters </em>was adapted from a 2012 Belgian series called <em>Clan. </em>But Season 2 is all-new, Apple TV+ territory. Above,<em> </em>Eva Birthistle, left, Sharon Horgan, Sarah Greene and Eve Hewson as the Garvey sisters.

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  • TV Reviews

Good news for 'Bad Sisters': They're just as fearless in Season 2

In the first season of this Apple TV+ black comedy, the Garveys plotted to kill their sister's abusive husband. And, yes, he ended up dead. But in the second season, things get even more complicated.

November 16, 2024
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By:
  • Linda Holmes
Lola Petticrew as Dolours Price.

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  • TV Reviews

The 'Say Nothing' TV adaptation isn't a history lesson – but it's haunting nonetheless

Patrick Radden Keefe's 2018 bestseller, Say Nothing, looked back on The Troubles in Northern Ireland — including the lives of IRA members and a decades-old unsolved murder. It has been adapted as a nine-episode FX series.

November 14, 2024
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By:
  • Linda Holmes
<em>Daughters </em>is a documentary about a Daddy Daughter Dance for incarcerated men and their kids.

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  • Pop Culture

What's Making Us Happy: A guide to your weekend viewing and listening

Each week, guests and hosts on NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour share what's bringing them joy. This week: The documentary Daughters, the show Dexter, and Doechii's album Alligator Bites Never Heal.

November 08, 2024
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By:
  • Monica Castillo,
  • Kristen Meinzer,
  • and 2 more
Tom Hanks and Robin Wright star in <em>Here, </em>a film adapted from the millennia-spanning graphic novel by Richard McGuire. It's a technically and narratively difficult story to tell on-screen and the result is crowded and confusing.

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  • Movie Reviews

Here's why we're disappointed with 'Here': It's more complicated than it is good

Here, starring Tom Hanks and Robin Wright, was adapted from a millennia-spanning graphic novel. But it's a technically and narratively difficult story on-screen and the result is crowded and confusing.

November 02, 2024
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By:
  • Linda Holmes
It's raking season! Above, a man tends to fallen leaves in Sieversdorf, Germany in 2017.

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  • Pop Culture

What's Making Us Happy: A guide to your weekend raking, listening and gaming

Each week, guests and hosts on NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour share what's bringing them joy. This week: The Cure's Songs of a Lost World, a lawn mowing simulator video game, and fall yard work.

November 01, 2024
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By:
  • Bob Mondello,
  • Stephen Thompson,
  • and 1 more
A PlayStation 5 console at the Tokyo Game Show in September.

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  • Video Game Reviews

3 video games to take your mind off the election

If you've spent the day canvassing and just need to take a breather, here are three games that have hit the spot recently for our pop culture critic.

October 26, 2024
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By:
  • Linda Holmes
Aurora Ribero in <em>The Shadow Strays</em>.

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  • Pop Culture

What's Making Us Happy: A guide to your weekend viewing and reading

Each week, guests and hosts on NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour share what's bringing them joy. This week: The film The Shadow Strays, the memoir Ephemera, and Rachel Bloom’s Death, Let Me Do My Special.

October 25, 2024
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By:
  • Jordan Crucchiola,
  • Jordan Morris,
  • and 2 more
In <em>Anora</em>, Ani (Mikey Madison) and Ivan (Mark Eydelshteyn) meet in a Manhattan club and end up in a whirlwind romance.

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  • Movie Reviews

The real nightmare in Sean Baker’s 'Anora' isn’t what you expect

In Anora, Mikey Madison plays a sex worker who dances at a strip club and meets — and marries — the son of a Russian oligarch. Filmmaker Sean Baker seems to anticipate and avoid conventions about on-screen violence.

October 24, 2024
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By:
  • Aisha Harris
<em>Woman of the Hour</em> is Anna Kendrick's feature directorial debut. She also stars as Sheryl.

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  • Movie Reviews

For once — a true crime story that isn't focused on the killer

Woman of the Hour was inspired by a real-life serial killer who appeared on The Dating Game in the 1970s. Anna Kendrick directed and stars in the new Netflix film.

October 21, 2024
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By:
  • Linda Holmes
Ariana Grande hosted <em>SNL </em>on October 12. She's shown above at the 96th Annual Academy Awards in March.

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  • Pop Culture

What's Making Us Happy: A guide to your weekend viewing and listening

Each week, guests and hosts on NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour share what's bringing them joy. This week: Ariana Grande hosting SNL, Jimmy Buffett’s album A1A and the movie Wicked Little Letters.

October 18, 2024
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By:
  • Jordan Crucchiola,
  • Reanna Cruz,
  • and 2 more
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