Pop Culture Happy Hour
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In excellent new film Club Kid, Jordan Firstman stars as a hard-partying manchild whose life is forever altered after learning he’s the dad to a 10-year-old kid (Reggie Absolom). Firstman also wrote and directed the…
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The new fun CBS show Cupertino is reminiscent of old-school legal dramas, and that’s a good thing. From the creators of The Good Wife, it follows two lawyers in Silicon Valley (Mike Colter and Rachel Keller) whose new…
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The film Possible Love recently hit Netflix, and it’s worth your time. It’s the latest from director Lee Chang-dong, whose previous film Burning was a critical hit. In the Korean film, two couples living very different…
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Godzilla Minus Zero is the sequel to Godzilla Minus One, the global word-of-mouth hit that just happened to be the first Godzilla movie ever to win an Oscar. In the movie, our heroes battle Godzilla and…a new nemesis.…
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Wild Horse Nine is a terrific new movie that stars John Malkovich and Sam Rockwell as two CIA agents who head to Easter Island for an unusual and mysterious mission in the early 1970s. They bicker and banter constantly,…
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Fall is in the air and you need stuff to watch and listen to and read as you curl up under the blanket and settle in. We’ve got you covered with some under the radar picks that are, as the kids say, giving autumn. We…
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The comedy series The Fall and Rise of Reggie Dinkins stars Tracy Morgan as a disgraced former football star and Daniel Radcliffe as a documentary filmmaker who team up to make a movie. The NBC/Peacock mockumentary…
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The new Disney+ show VisionQuest is the latest Marvel television series, and it’s one of the good ones. It’s the conclusion of the trilogy that began with WandaVision and continued through Agatha All Along, reuniting…
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Nothing’s fair in love and war — and it's especially true in the very watchable HBO series War. Dominic West and Sienna Miller play a high-profile British couple duking it out in a high-stakes divorce. And the cutthroat…
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Do you like scary movies? It's spooky season, so what better way to get into the Halloween spirit than plopping down in front of a film engineered to scare your pants off. Today, in this encore episode, we’re revisiting…
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- Oldest episode in feed
- 06/2025 · over a year
- Typical length
- 21 min
- Format
- Episodic Newest first, episodes stand alone
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