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...
2025 Super Bowl
10 Feb 2025
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At this year's Super Bowl, the Philadelphia Eagles beat the Kansas City Chiefs 40-22. During the hal...
Love Hurts And What's Making Us Happy
07 Feb 2025
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In the new action movie Love Hurts, Oscar-winner Ke Huy Quan stars as a real estate agent who has re...
You're Cordially Invited
05 Feb 2025
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In the raunchy movie You're Cordially Invited, Will Ferrell and Reese Witherspoon face a mortifying ...
2025 Sundance Film Festival: Best Movies
04 Feb 2025
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We watched many films at this year's Sundance Film Festival. Today, we're recommending some of the b...
2025 Grammys Recap
03 Feb 2025
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This year's Grammys was a huge night for Beyoncé, who finally won album of the year for Cowboy Cart...
Companion And What's Making Us Happy
31 Jan 2025
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In the smart, twisty thriller-comedy Companion, three young couples gather at a swanky lake house fo...
Mo
30 Jan 2025
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The excellent Netflix series Mo is about a man who figures out how to get by: how to find work as so...
Presence
28 Jan 2025
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In the new Steven Soderbergh film Presence, a family moves into an old house, and weird stuff starts...
The Pitt
27 Jan 2025
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The Max hospital drama The Pitt stars ER veteran Noah Wyle. It takes some elements that are common t...
The Night Agent
24 Jan 2025
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An FBI agent working in a lonely, secret office in the White House basement gets a phone call. A wom...
2025 Oscar Nominations
23 Jan 2025
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This year's Oscar nominations are out, and if you liked Emilia Pérez, Anora, Wicked, The Brutalist,...
One Of Them Days
22 Jan 2025
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Keke Palmer is one of Hollywood's most charismatic leads, and SZA is one of the world's biggest pop ...
The Brutalist And What's Making Us Happy
21 Jan 2025
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The new movie The Brutalist is earning a lot of Oscar buzz. Adrien Brody plays a fictional Hungarian...
Wolf Man And What's Making Us Happy
17 Jan 2025
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Everything old is new again, it seems, and there's no reason that wouldn't apply to werewolves. We n...
XO, Kitty
16 Jan 2025
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The Netflix series XO, Kitty is a spinoff of the hit YA book and movie franchise, To All the Boys I'...
American Primeval
15 Jan 2025
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In Netflix's gritty, brutal Western series American Primeval, Betty Gilpin plays a woman determined ...
The Best One-Hit Wonders
14 Jan 2025
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Some bands are The Beatles and some singers are Beyoncé: Smash after smash, their legend grows. And...
The Last Showgirl And What's Making Us Happy
10 Jan 2025
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In the new movie The Last Showgirl, a woman finds herself with few options as she approaches the end...
Hot Moms In Film
09 Jan 2025
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In the past year, there have been a lot of movies that feature older women falling in love with much...
Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl
08 Jan 2025
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Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl is the latest film in the beloved stop-motion animation series...
Great Movies We Missed
06 Jan 2025
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We covered dozens of new movies in 2024, some we loved, some we didn't, and everything in between. A...
Nickel Boys
03 Jan 2025
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Adapted from the Pulitzer prize-winner novel from Colson Whitehead, Nickel Boys tells the story of t...
Squid Game
01 Jan 2025
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The Korean drama Squid Game became the most popular offering in Netflix's history by combining pitch...
2025 Pop Culture Resolutions And What's Making Us Happy
31 Dec 2024
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As a new year arrives, it's only natural to have some goals in mind: What you want to achieve, what ...
2025 Pop Culture Predictions
30 Dec 2024
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Nobody can predict what the future holds, but that doesn't stop us from trying. Trying, that is, to ...
A Complete Unknown and What's Making Us Happy
27 Dec 2024
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A Complete Unknown isn't a traditional biopic. Instead of covering Bob Dylan's life story from birth...
Babygirl
26 Dec 2024
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In the new movie Babygirl, Nicole Kidman plays a high-powered CEO who has an affair her mysterious i...
Nosferatu
25 Dec 2024
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Nosferatu is a Dracula story with a twist. It stars Lily Rose-Depp as a new bride stalked by an evil...
Juror #2
24 Dec 2024
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Some people hate jury duty, but in Clint Eastwood's new film Juror #2, one guy's experience is worse...
Laid
23 Dec 2024
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The new Peacock series Laid is a very dark rom-com. Stephanie Hsu plays a young woman who discovers ...
Mufasa: The Lion King And What's Making Us Happy
20 Dec 2024
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It's been five years since Disney remade its animated classic The Lion King as a photorealistic bloc...
Best Movies To Watch On An Airplane
19 Dec 2024
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Watching a movie on a plane can be a great way to pass the time if you're traveling for the holidays...
Bad Sisters
18 Dec 2024
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We first met the Garvey sisters two years ago when the Apple TV+ series Bad Sisters made its debut. ...
No Good Deed
16 Dec 2024
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Nobody ever said the housing market was easy. In the new Netflix ensemble dark comedy No Good Deed, ...
Queer and What's Making Us Happy
13 Dec 2024
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The movie Queer stars Daniel Craig as you've never seen him: as a junkie prowling the streets, hooki...
It's A Wonderful Life
12 Dec 2024
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For a lot of people, It's A Wonderful Life is the Christmas movie. George Bailey's story of learning...
2024 Pop Culture Favorites
11 Dec 2024
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We check out a lot of things in a given year: Lots of movies, TV shows, and music. Today, we are hig...
Black Doves
09 Dec 2024
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The new Netflix series Black Doves is a pulpy and stylish British spy show starring Keira Knightly a...
Nightbitch And What's Making Us Happy
06 Dec 2024
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The new movie Nightbitch stars Amy Adams as an exhausted stay-at-home mom to a toddler. Missing her ...
2024 Holiday Movie Guide
05 Dec 2024
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It's holiday movie season, and there are so many new movies to choose from. So where do you start? W...
Great Movies Under 90 Minutes
03 Dec 2024
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What do you do when you need a good movie, but you don't have much time? The answer is that you find...
The Madness
02 Dec 2024
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In the Netflix series The Madness, Colman Domingo plays a CNN pundit who witnesses a brutal murder, ...
Interior Chinatown
29 Nov 2024
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The super-meta Hulu series Interior Chinatown mashes up a whole bunch of genres — including kung f...
Moana 2 And What's Making Us Happy
27 Nov 2024
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In the hit Disney film Moana, a girl (Auli'i Cravalho) finally gets her chance to see more of the wo...
The Piano Lesson
26 Nov 2024
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You may not see Denzel Washington in the new Netflix film adaptation of the August Wilson play The P...
A Man On The Inside
25 Nov 2024
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The charming Netflix sitcom A Man on the Inside stars Ted Danson as a lonely widower who's hired by ...
Wicked And What's Making Us Happy
22 Nov 2024
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The musical Wicked is a bold, revisionist take on The Wizard of Oz. It imagines that back in college...
Gladiator II
21 Nov 2024
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The new film Gladiator II is a sequel to Gladiator, Oscar-winning swords-and-sandals blockbuster tha...
A Real Pain
20 Nov 2024
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The moving dramedy A Real Pain stars Jesse Eisenberg and Kieran Culkin as two very different cousins...
The Best Movie Musical Numbers
19 Nov 2024
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If you've ever loved a movie musical, then you've probably got a favorite movie musical number — a...
Red One And What's Making Us Happy
15 Nov 2024
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In the deeply goofy Christmas action comedy Red One, the holiday season comes to an emergency halt w...
Say Nothing
14 Nov 2024
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One night in Belfast in 1972, a mother of ten was abducted from her home in front of her children an...
Emilia Pérez
13 Nov 2024
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Emilia Pérez is Netflix's new divisive musical about a Mexican cartel boss who disappears from the ...
Can't Sleep? Catch Some ZZZs With These Songs
11 Nov 2024
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There are songs you want to groove to, and songs you want to pump up to. But sometimes, you just wan...
Heretic And What's Making Us Happy
08 Nov 2024
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In the claustrophobic thriller Heretic, two young Mormon missionaries (Sophie Thatcher and Chloe E...
Tom Hanks Explains How To Deal With Attention
06 Nov 2024
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Today, we're bringing you an episode of How To Do Everything, a new NPR podcast from the team behind...