The Naked Gun And What's Making Us Happy
01 Aug 2025
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The Naked Gun franchise has always been a rapid-fire delivery system for gags, delivered straight-fa...
The Hunting Wives
31 Jul 2025
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The Netflix series The Hunting Wives is a soapy murder mystery full of nudity and intrigue, about a ...
Happy Gilmore 2
30 Jul 2025
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It's been almost 30 years since Happy Gilmore gave Adam Sandler one of his best-loved movie roles. T...
Song Of The Summer
28 Jul 2025
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Last year was Brat summer and saw the rise of Chappell Roan, Shaboozey, and Sabrina Carpenter. But i...
The Fantastic Four: First Steps And What's Making Us Happy
25 Jul 2025
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The Fantastic Four are back again in a new movie--and it's an eye-popping good time. The Fantastic F...
Our Favorite YouTube Channels
24 Jul 2025
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Today we're recommending a few of our favorite YouTube channels. These are the ones we find ourselve...
I Know What You Did Last Summer
22 Jul 2025
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In the original I Know What You Did Last Summer, some very '90s teenagers are targeted by a killer c...
Watch This: Sorry, Baby
21 Jul 2025
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Sorry, Baby is a refreshingly disarming movie. The film was written and directed by Eva Victor, who ...
Congress has voted to eliminate government funding for public media
20 Jul 2025
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Act now to ensure public media remains free and accessible to all. Your donation will help this esse...
Eddington And What's Making Us Happy
18 Jul 2025
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Eddington plunges us back into that familiarly distressing time of the early days of the pandemic. D...
KPop Demon Hunters
17 Jul 2025
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The Netflix animated movie KPop Demon Hunters is a phenomenon, with a soundtrack that's climbing the...
2025 Emmy Nominations
16 Jul 2025
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This year's Emmy nominations are out, and it was a good year for familiar favorites like Hacks, The ...
Too Much
14 Jul 2025
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When your long-term boyfriend leaves you for an Instagram influencer, what can you do? In the new Ne...
Superman And What's Making Us Happy
11 Jul 2025
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After much anticipation, there is a pretty great new Superman movie. And he's bringing exactly what ...
We Rewatch The Movies We Loved As Teens
10 Jul 2025
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This summer marks Pop Culture Happy Hour's 15th birthday. We decided to re-watch the movies we loved...
Love Island
08 Jul 2025
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Love Island USA is pure chaos, and admittedly: we love it. It's one of many spinoffs of the long-run...
Great Songs For Your Next Road Trip
07 Jul 2025
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If you're thinking about taking a road trip, you're going to need some road trip music. You might ne...
Jurassic World Rebirth And What's Making Us Happy
03 Jul 2025
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Jurassic World Rebirth is the latest reboot of the beloved franchise. This time around Scarlett Joha...
Squid Game
02 Jul 2025
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Netflix's Korean drama Squid Game became a worldwide phenomenon, winning six Emmys and inspiring cou...
The Bear
01 Jul 2025
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The Bear is back for a new season. The FX on Hulu series sees Carmy and Sydney (Jeremy Allen White a...
M3GAN 2.0
30 Jun 2025
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The horror comedy M3GAN spawned memes, made a fortune, and even taught us a lesson about the dangers...
F1 And What's Making Us Happy
27 Jun 2025
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If you like cars that go fast, you'll be glad to know they go very fast in F1 The Movie. The film st...
Ironheart
26 Jun 2025
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Ironheart is a fun new Marvel series following Riri Williams (Dominique Thorne), a brilliant young w...
Best Pixar Movies, Ranked
24 Jun 2025
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It's been nearly 30 years since Toy Story kicked off a historic run of animated films. So now seemed...
Elio
23 Jun 2025
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In the new Pixar film Elio, a lonely kid dreams of being abducted by aliens. And then one day, it ha...
28 Years Later And What's Making Us Happy
20 Jun 2025
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The new apocalyptic horror film 28 Years Later takes place in the same world as 28 Days Later, where...
Watch This: Pee-Wee As Himself
18 Jun 2025
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The new HBO documentary Pee-Wee As Himself isn't the boilerplate Hollywood profile you think it is. ...
The Life of Chuck
17 Jun 2025
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Stephen King's work has often contemplated the inevitability of death. But his latest adaptation, Th...
Materialists
16 Jun 2025
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Should you date for love or financial security? That's the central premise of the new movie Material...
How to Train Your Dragon And What's Making Us Happy
13 Jun 2025
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Disney has been remaking its animated classics for years to great financial success – Lilo & Stitc...
Almost Famous
12 Jun 2025
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In Almost Famous, writer and director Cameron Crowe looks at the ecosystem surrounding a rising rock...
Summer Blockbusters
10 Jun 2025
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Fifty years ago Steven Spielberg's Jaws was released in theaters, kicking off the summer blockbuster...
The Phoenician Scheme
09 Jun 2025
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Wes Anderson's new film The Phoenician Scheme is classic Wes Anderson, complete with a great cast de...
Ballerina And What's Making Us Happy
06 Jun 2025
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John Wick's back in a spinoff new film, Ballerina, starring Ana de Armas. She plays a ballerina-turn...
Adults
04 Jun 2025
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Every generation gets its versions of a "20-somethings hang out and make mistakes" sitcom, such as L...
Watch This: Mountainhead
03 Jun 2025
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Succession creator Jesse Armstrong is back with Mountainhead, a new movie with characters who are ju...
Bring Her Back
02 Jun 2025
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The hit Australian horror movie Talk To Me was both very good and deeply unsettling. Now its directo...
Karate Kid: Legends And What's Making Us Happy
30 May 2025
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The Karate Kid has been sequelized, serialized, spun off and rebooted, and now it's back, as Karate ...
Are We In A Media Literacy Crisis?
29 May 2025
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Online discourse has become a fun part of enjoying and dissecting big pop culture events. But after ...
Lilo & Stitch
27 May 2025
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The new Lilo & Stitch is mostly live-action and retells the original Disney animated film's story of...
The Last Of Us
26 May 2025
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Season two of The Last of Us just ended, and to say the story has gone in some new directions is an ...
Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning And What's Making Us Happy
23 May 2025
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In Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning, Tom Cruise has to save the world (again). But this t...
Post-Credits Scenes
21 May 2025
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The movie ends, and the credits roll. That used to be your cue to start heading to the parking lot t...
Watch This: Murderbot
20 May 2025
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Murderbot is a very smart, very funny new sci-fi comedy series on Apple TV+. The show stars Alexande...
Friendship
19 May 2025
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In the cringe comedy Friendship, a deeply strange and intense guy forges a troubled friendship with ...
Final Destination Bloodlines
16 May 2025
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You can't beat death. That's the message of the Final Destination film franchise. Almost 15 years af...
The Star Wars Prequels
15 May 2025
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When the Star Wars prequels came out, they were polarizing for fans of George Lucas' beloved space o...
Forever
14 May 2025
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It's not easy being a teenager in love. The hormones are raging, the parents are parenting, and the ...
The Jennifer Hudson Show Spirit Tunnel
12 May 2025
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If you're a celeb visiting The Jennifer Hudson Show, it's almost guaranteed you're going to make you...
Fight Or Flight
09 May 2025
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The new action movie Fight or Flight finds Josh Hartnett playing a onetime Secret Service agent who ...
Another Simple Favor
07 May 2025
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Another Simple Favor reunites Blake Lively and Anna Kendrick in a new movie full of murder, deceit, ...
The Met Gala
06 May 2025
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Monday was fashion's biggest night: the Met Gala. And our pal Brittany Luse was paying attention to ...
The Four Seasons
05 May 2025
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Tina Fey returns to TV on the charming Netflix comedy The Four Seasons. It's about a group of couple...
Thunderbolts*
02 May 2025
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Thunderbolts* is the latest Marvel movie and this one's a bit more fun than they've been lately. It ...
The TV Show I'd Like To Live In
01 May 2025
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If you wanted to escape reality and move to a fictional TV world, where would you live? Many are dys...
Why We Love TV Weddings
29 Apr 2025
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Weddings make great fodder for TV writers. It's wedding season, so today we're breaking down the dif...
Étoile
28 Apr 2025
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Étoile is the latest series from Amy Sherman-Palladino, the creator of Gilmore Girls and The Marvel...
Summer Guide
25 Apr 2025
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There was Barbenheimer Summer, then Brat Summer, what will this year bring? Maybe it's the season of...
Conclave
23 Apr 2025
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Pope Francis' death not only led to an outpouring of remembrances. It also unleashed a new wave of m...
The Wedding Banquet
22 Apr 2025
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The lovely rom-com The Wedding Banquet has a stellar all-star cast, including Kelly Marie Tran, Lily...
New TV Comedies You Don't Want To Miss
21 Apr 2025
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We cover a lot of TV on this show, but we don't get to everything. Today we're recommending some of ...
Sinners And What's Making Us Happy
18 Apr 2025
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The very scary movie Sinners finds Michael B. Jordan playing twin brothers who open a 1930s juke joi...
Your Friends And Neighbors
16 Apr 2025
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In the Apple TV+ series Your Friends and Neighbors, a very rich guy reacts to becoming a bit less ri...
Doctor Who
15 Apr 2025
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The last season of the venerable British science fiction series Doctor Who brought a lot of change. ...
Warfare
14 Apr 2025
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The new film Warfare dispenses with a lot of things you've come to expect from Hollywood war movies....
Drop And What's Making Us Happy
11 Apr 2025
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In the bonkers thriller Drop, Meghann Fahy plays a woman whose first date goes off the rails when sh...
Pop Culture That Changed Our Minds
10 Apr 2025
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At a certain point, most of us settle into a groove with our pop culture consumption. We know what w...
Dying For Sex
09 Apr 2025
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The premise might be a tough sell: a young woman attempts to finally own her sexuality following a t...
The White Lotus
07 Apr 2025
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Season three of The White Lotus just wrapped up, but not before serving up a tropical buffet of sex,...
A Minecraft Movie And What's Making Us Happy
04 Apr 2025
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Based on the best-selling game, A Minecraft Movie stars Jack Black and Jason Momoa in a goofy and sp...
Daredevil: Born Again
02 Apr 2025
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In Daredevil: Born Again, Charlie Cox returns as everyone's favorite blind-but-with-heightened-sense...
Survival Of The Thickest
01 Apr 2025
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The delightful Netflix series Survival of the Thickest is about an up-and-coming stylist whose profe...
The Studio
31 Mar 2025
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In the very funny new satire The Studio, Seth Rogen plays a Hollywood studio head desperately trying...
Death Of A Unicorn And What's Making Us Happy
28 Mar 2025
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In Death of a Unicorn, Paul Rudd and Jenna Ortega star as dad and daughter facing off against some a...
The Residence
26 Mar 2025
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In the new Netflix series The Residence, a dead body shows up in an awkward location: the White Hous...
Dope Thief
25 Mar 2025
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The Apple TV+ series Dope Thief is a great high-stakes crime thriller to stream now. It stars Brian ...
Severance
24 Mar 2025
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In season two of Severance (streaming on Apple TV+), we got a blowout finale with answers to mysteri...
Snow White And What's Making Us Happy
21 Mar 2025
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Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs was Disney's first fully animated feature film back in 1937. Now, it...
Novocaine
19 Mar 2025
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In the gleefully grisly action movie Novocaine, Jack Quaid plays a sweet, nerdy guy who does not exp...
Oscar-Winner Anora Is Now Streaming
18 Mar 2025
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Anora recently cleaned up at this year's Oscars, winning five awards, including best picture. Direct...
Ayo Edebiri's New Movie Opus
17 Mar 2025
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In the new movie Opus, Ayo Edebiri plays a journalist who attends a press event at the compound of a...
Black Bag And What's Making Us Happy
14 Mar 2025
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The cool, stylish new Steven Soderbergh film Black Bag is about a group of British spies who discove...
On Becoming a Guinea Fowl
13 Mar 2025
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You should watch the surreal new movie On Becoming a Guinea Fowl. It opens with a Zambian woman find...
Lady Gaga's Mayhem
12 Mar 2025
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Lady Gaga has kept busy as a singer and actor, but it's been five years since she's released a full-...
Best Moments In Live TV
10 Mar 2025
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Live television is all about high risk, high reward. Whether it's musical performances, awards cerem...
Mickey 17 And What's Making Us Happy
07 Mar 2025
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Mickey 17 is writer-director Bong Joon Ho's follow-up to the Oscar-winning film Parasite. In the sha...
Terrible But Bingeable TV shows
06 Mar 2025
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What is it about a show that turns you into a bitter-ender, that keeps you dutifully watching every ...
Favorite SNL Musical Moments
05 Mar 2025
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Perhaps you've heard that Saturday Night Live is celebrating its 50th anniversary — they've mentio...
Our 2025 Oscars Recap
03 Mar 2025
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This year's Oscars was a big night for Sean Baker's Anora, including wins for best picture and direc...
2025 Oscars Guide And What's Making Us Happy
28 Feb 2025
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This year's Oscar nominees include Wicked, The Substance, Emilia Perez, and Conclave. And we watched...
Paradise
27 Feb 2025
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In Hulu's twisty drama series Paradise, Sterling K. Brown plays a Secret Service agent caught up in ...
Zero Day
25 Feb 2025
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The Netflix series Zero Day begins with a terrifying moment in which everything in the United States...
Actors Who've Never Been Nominated For An Oscar, But Should Win
24 Feb 2025
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The standard line for awards season goes: "It's an honor just to be nominated." But when it comes to...
The Monkey And What's Making Us Happy
21 Feb 2025
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In the new horror-comedy The Monkey, Theo James plays a pair of identical twin brothers who get sadd...
Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy
19 Feb 2025
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For more than 20 years on screen, Bridget Jones has been making her way through dating, working, hav...
We Fantasy Cast The Traitors
18 Feb 2025
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The Peacock reality show The Traitors continues to be a delightful mix of treachery, foolishness, an...
Paddington In Peru
17 Feb 2025
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In the new movie Paddington In Peru, Paddington Bear and the Brown family fly across the globe, into...
Captain America: Brave New World And What's Making Us Happy
14 Feb 2025
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Anthony Mackie is the new Captain America, and he's finally got his own movie. In Captain America: B...
The Substance
13 Feb 2025
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The Substance is a bloody, campy, fiercely feminist body horror film. Demi Moore plays a TV aerobics...
Guide To Great Shows On Network TV
11 Feb 2025
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In the age of streaming content and "Prestige TV" it's easy to forget that old school TV networks ar...