Summer Guide
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What should I watch and listen to this summer?
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It's getting warm outside, the sun is shining, and that means it's time for the three Ps, pollen, popsicles, and the Pop Culture Happy Hour guide to what you should be watching and listening to this summer. Sure, we've got a superhero for you, but we've also got blockbuster directors, interesting auteurs, and one film we truly, honestly believed we might never get to see. I'm Linda Holmes, and today we've got a guide to what we're looking forward to this summer on Pop Culture Happy Hour from NPR. Joining me today are my co-hosts, Stephen Thompson. Hello, Stephen.
Hey, buddy.
And Glenn Weldon. Hello, Glenn.
Hey, it's summertime. The living is easy. The pizza is cheesy. My favorite Jefferson is wheezy. Hey, Linda.
Very good. Very good. And Aisha Harris. Hello, Aisha. I'm sorry that you have to follow that.
Oh, it's okay, Linda. I'm just happy to be here and not happy about the pollen because I do apologize if I sound a little... Making you wheezy.
I think I felt that I needed to involve the pollen just because it's so omnipresent in everyone's lives.
When I first moved to the East Coast, a friend asked, do you have allergies? And I said, no. And they said, oh, you do now.
Very reasonable. All right. Before we get started, please keep in mind that these are just some highlights. So don't worry if we don't get to everything you're excited about. Some of the best stuff of the summer may well turn out to be things that aren't even announced yet. Yeah. Just take it as a rough sketch of some of the things we're looking forward to. Stephen, I'm going to start with you. You've got a new film from one of the creators, I would argue, of the summer blockbuster.
Yeah, my first pick is Steven Spielberg's Disclosure Day coming out June 12th. You know, I gotta say, gang, I just went back to the movie theater and re-watched the movie Project Hail Mary because I enjoyed it so much. I realized in re-watching it just how hungry I had been for new kind of blockbuster fare that is not just regurgitating old intellectual property. And watching the trailer for Disclosure Day before that screening, Made me excited about this. It looks like it's a paranoid thriller. It's Steven Spielberg. There appear to be aliens involved. You got Emily Blunt, Josh O'Connor, who has kind of graduated to the tier of actors where I want to see anything they're in, even if it's potentially bad, which this does not look like it's going to be bad.
It looks, I mean, it's a Spielberg-y thriller. Who has surer directorial hands than Steven Spielberg? Mm-hmm. at least if you're stretching out over the course of careers lasting 50 years. So I'm excited about this film and kind of feel, having watched the trailer, like the less I know about it, the better. I just know suspense, intrigue, aliens, and I'm like, all right, Spielberg, I'm in.
Yep. I mean, yeah, you're right. He's been making films for 50 years. He is 79 years old now. Just from the trailer, it feels like this is more in the Minority Report, War of the Worlds, Spielberg, less about wonder and awe, more about dread and uncertainty because he is wrestling with mortality and legacy. I don't think you get to this movie without going through the Fablemans, which creatively was kind of a look back for him, a kind of a taking of stock. I think he's wrestling with stuff he didn't wrestle with as a young director. So I'm in.
I completely agree. And I also just like, I say the same thing about these films. filmmakers of a certain age, whether it's him or Spike Lee or even Francis Ford Coppola. Look, Megalopolis, that was a mess. But the fact that they are still making these movies and able to bring them to theaters and get people into theaters, I think is what excites me the most about this. It kind of feels like we're back in the 90s and the 80s. It's like we have a new Spielberg movie. Yay.
That's exciting. My butt will be in that seat at the very first opportunity.
I agree with Glenn that it looks like it is low wonder and high dread, which to me is Spielberg.
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