Black Phone 2 And What’s Making Us Happy
17 Oct 2025
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Grabbers gonna grab, even from beyond the grave. In Black Phone 2, Ethan Hawke returns from the dead...
Roofman
15 Oct 2025
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In the new movie Roofman, Channing Tatum and Kirsten Dunst ooze with their signature charm and chemi...
After the Hunt
14 Oct 2025
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In the new movie After The Hunt, Julia Roberts plays a Yale professor who finds herself in a hard pl...
Kiss of the Spider Woman
13 Oct 2025
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Jennifer Lopez stars in the new film adaptation of Kiss of the Spider Woman. Set in an Argentine pri...
TRON: Ares And What's Making Us Happy
10 Oct 2025
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TRON: Ares is the third film in the franchise, and this time flips the script: Instead of humans ent...
Most Overused Songs In Movies
09 Oct 2025
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Some great songs are so overused in movies, they’ve become cliches. Everyone’s mileage is bound ...
The Lost Bus
07 Oct 2025
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In the new movie The Lost Bus, Matthew McConaughey and America Ferrera play a bus driver and a teach...
Taylor Swift The Life Of A Showgirl
06 Oct 2025
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Taylor Swift just dropped her new album The Life Of A Showgirl. It touches on her relationship with ...
The Smashing Machine And What's Making Us Happy
03 Oct 2025
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Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson and Emily Blunt star in the new sports biopic The Smashing Machine. Johnso...
Brokeback Mountain
02 Oct 2025
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This year marks 20 years since Brokeback Mountain hit theaters. The film starred Heath Ledger and Ja...
The Lowdown
30 Sep 2025
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The Lowdown is a great new FX series starring Ethan Hawke as a freelance investigative reporter with...
Wayward
29 Sep 2025
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In the new Netflix series Wayward, Toni Collette plays a deeply creepy woman who runs a facility tha...
One Battle After Another And What's Making Us Happy
26 Sep 2025
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One Battle After Another is an action-thriller starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Teyana Taylor and Sean Pe...
Showgirls
25 Sep 2025
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Showgirls stars Elizabeth Berkley as a Vegas dancer trying to move up from a seedy club to a glamoro...
Task
24 Sep 2025
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The new HBO series Task stars Mark Ruffalo and Tom Pelphrey in a grim, but stealthily hopeful drama....
Haunted Hotel
22 Sep 2025
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From one of the minds behind Rick and Morty, Netflix’s new animated comedy Haunted Hotel is the pe...
Him And What’s Making Us Happy
19 Sep 2025
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In the new horror film HIM, Tyriq Withers stars as a young football player who has a chance to be tr...
Fall Guide
18 Sep 2025
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The fall of 2025 is shaping up to have something for everyone with a fresh Knives Out mystery, Guill...
The Summer I Turned Pretty
16 Sep 2025
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The TV series The Summer I Turned Pretty features a messy love triangle, plenty of drama, and a LOT ...
2025 Emmys Recap
15 Sep 2025
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This year’s Emmy Awards saw big wins for Adolescence, The Studio, and The Pitt. The telecast was a...
The Long Walk And What's Making Us Happy
12 Sep 2025
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The new film The Long Walk is Stephen King meets The Hunger Games. It takes place in a dystopian Ame...
Great Movies With Silly Plots
11 Sep 2025
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Have you ever found yourself completely caught up in a film only to find, after the lights come up, ...
Watch This: Twinless
09 Sep 2025
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Dylan O’Brien and James Sweeney star as unlikely friends in the new movie Twinless. They meet in a...
The Paper
08 Sep 2025
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The Paper is a spinoff of The Office, and like its predecessor, it’s a mockumentary about a workpl...
The Conjuring: Last Rites And What's Making Us Happy
05 Sep 2025
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The Conjuring: Last Rites winds down the story of the demon-hunting couple loosely based on Ed and L...
Sabrina Carpenter Man’s Best Friend
04 Sep 2025
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Sabrina Carpenter is following her breakout album Short n’ Sweet with a new collection of cheeky e...
The Thursday Murder Club
03 Sep 2025
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Netflix’s The Thursday Murder Club is a cozy British mystery set at a posh retirement community. T...
Caught Stealing
02 Sep 2025
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Austin Butler, Zoë Kravitz and Bad Bunny star in Caught Stealing, the new grungy, throwback film fr...
The Roses And What's Making Us Happy
29 Aug 2025
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First a novel and a 1989 hit film, the story of The Roses has been told before. This time around, Be...
Jaws
28 Aug 2025
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Steven Spielberg's Jaws turns 50 this year. It’s been called the perfect movie, the first blockbus...
Songs For When Your Flight Is Delayed
27 Aug 2025
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If you travel by plane with any regularity, you've been there: stuck in an airport because your flig...
Watch This: Long Story Short
26 Aug 2025
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Long Story Short is a very funny and surprisingly moving new Netflix animated comedy series from the...
Lurker And What's Making Us Happy
22 Aug 2025
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Fame does strange things to people. In the new film Lurker, Théodore Pellerin plays a young retail ...
Best John Grisham Adaptations, Ranked
21 Aug 2025
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There’s a new TV version of The Rainmaker out, so today, we’re ranking the five best John Grisha...
Our 15th Anniversary Time Capsule
19 Aug 2025
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We launched Pop Culture Happy Hour 15 years ago this summer, and we had a lot of pent-up hot takes. ...
Highest 2 Lowest
18 Aug 2025
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Spike Lee's new crime thriller Highest 2 Lowest reunites him with his favorite leading man, Denzel W...
Alien: Earth And What's Making Us Happy
15 Aug 2025
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Alien: Earth is a new TV spinoff of the Alien movie franchise, and as one might expect, it has plent...
Bring It On
14 Aug 2025
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The cheerleading film Bring It On spawned direct-to-video sequels and a Broadway musical. And with a...
Platonic
12 Aug 2025
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In the breezy comedy series Platonic, Seth Rogen and Rose Byrne play former best friends who reconne...
Weapons
11 Aug 2025
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The intriguing and seriously creepy new film Weapons follows what happens after 17 third-graders get...
Freakier Friday And What's Making Us Happy
08 Aug 2025
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Lindsay Lohan and Jamie Lee Curtis first switched bodies over 20 years ago in the beloved Disney bod...
Y2K Pop Culture
07 Aug 2025
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We are 25 years into the 2000s, so we wanted to debate: what’s the most definitive piece of Y2K po...
Together
06 Aug 2025
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Every couple goes through certain rites of passage. You date, maybe you move in together, maybe you ...
Wednesday
05 Aug 2025
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Wednesday is one of the most popular Netflix shows of all time, and it helped make Jenna Ortega a st...
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...