That's a question that the new film A Beautiful Day In The Neighborhood tries to answer with a performance from Tom Hanks as the beloved TV host. The UK series is now streaming on HBO Max. And we really, really like it. Join arts journalists Linda Holmes, Glen Weldon, Stephen Thompson, and Aisha Harris - plus a rotating cast of guest pop culture aficionados. — both for his steady demeanor and for moments when he couldn't bring himself to suffer fools gladly. For six seasons, the NBC comedy Superstore has told the story of a fictional big-box store in St. Louis. They race a mechanically enhanced super soldier played by Idris Elba to recover a deadly virus before it can melt the entire population of the planet into a series of small puddles. (Donate to a local station at donate.npr.org/happy). It's also haunted by the memory of his first wife. Over the course of her long, varied and distinguished career, actor Frances McDormand has won two Oscars - and her performance in Nomadland this year could win her a third. It's about a young Parisian man named Assane, played by Omar Sy, who molds his life on classic French tales about a fictional gentleman thief and master of disguise named Arsène Lupin. Led by the fictional siblings Yakko, Wakko and Dot, the super-meta cartoon featured slapstick humor and cultural references that appealed to both kids and adults alike. We thought this one deserved a second look before we bid this chapter of the Marvel Universe farewell. Nothing fascinates the world like a meteoric rise. ), Jeopardy! In this interview from Bullseye, Esposito talks about the complexity of his characters, his time on The Electric Company and his work on Do the Right Thing. Predictions Of How COVID-19 Will Impact Pop Culture. And if you haven't seen the series, now is a good time to catch up. It follows heartless media mega-mogul Logan Roy and his ruthless children as they try to outmaneuver each other. Believe it or not, it's the Metropolitan Opera's production of Rigoletto, which we recently checked out in New York. And across what's now a three-film series, he's been having a heck of a week ever since. Last Friday on Disney+, Beyoncé released a movie-length video that's meant to serve as a companion to the album. In 1995, while Will Smith was on The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air and Martin Lawrence was on Martin, the two teamed up for the cop buddy movie Bad Boys. Starring Merritt Wever and Domhnall Gleeson, Run is part romantic comedy, part thriller, and part road trip. About. Superstore is also a big, broad, goodhearted workplace comedy in the spirit of The Office, full of wacky oddballs and slow-burning romantic intrigue. She still brings listeners daily conversations about news and books, film and science. hide caption. Plus, what's making us happy this week. Bling Empire shifts the focus a little bit, to a group of Asian-Americans in and around Los Angeles. Apple spent a massive amount of money on it and landed a cast that includes Jennifer Aniston, Reese Witherspoon and Steve Carell. Five days a week, Pop Culture Happy Hour serves you recommendations and commentary on the buzziest movies, TV, music, books, videogames and more. The Oscar nominations are out, and in the lead is Mank. There are plenty of binge recommendations out there if you find yourself with a lot of free time in isolation. In Disney and Pixar's Soul, a jazz musician voiced by Jamie Foxx falls down a manhole and finds himself teetering between life and the afterlife. As awards season kicks off, Pop Culture Happy Hour revisits great performers and a few of their essential performances. Join us for a conversation with the hosts as we welcome Aisha Harris to the team! And we've got some ideas about how to fill those voids. Fred Hampton, the charismatic chairman of the Black Panther Party's Illinois chapter, was just 21 years old when he was killed during a police raid in 1969. We'll also make some predictions for the new year, and we'll undertake the often painful job of seeing whether we got anything right 12 months ago when we did the same thing. July 9, 2018 • Amy Adams plays a journalist investigating violence in her hometown in HBO's adaptation of Gillian Flynn's 2006 debut novel. Despite its preponderance of bustles and bonnets, the Apple TV+ series Dickinson is not some fusty old biopic. It's time again for our summer movie preview. In this series they insist on calling an experiment, couples sit in separate cells that they call pods, where they can hear each other but not see each other. And we have a few to recommend. And now, inevitably, she's the subject of a podcast. Before you check that one out, we wanted to revisit our conversation about the first film. What is it about Mimi that's made her one of our most enduring pop stars? Portrait Of A Lady On Fire begins with a woman named Marianne assigned to paint a woman named Heloise. Today we're talking about some of the love stories that show up in this year's guide. Pop Culture Happy Hour: 50 Wonderful Things From 2019 From J. We saw big speeches, a few surprises, and lifetime achievement prizes for Ellen DeGeneres and Tom Hanks. That's one of the reasons the new HBO series Lovecraft Country works. Before that, Boseman played historical figures including Thurgood Marshall, Jackie Robinson and James Brown. The new Rebecca stars Lily James as a woman who becomes the second wife of Maxim de Winter, played by Hammer. And which Muppet do we most identify with? hide caption. On Friday, Dec. 11, just four and a half months after she released the heavily Grammy-nominated Folklore, Taylor Swift released her ninth album, Evermore. And we're bringing in a couple of our favorite book lovers to help us out. Getty Images Chris Pine is back as Steve Trevor, and new cast members include Kristen Wiig and Pedro Pascal. Director Guillermo del Toro's The Shape of Water won best director and best picture at the 90th Academy Awards. Neglected by the world and beaten down everywhere he turns, Fleck does what any discouraged clown would do: he becomes a menace. In The Father, Anthony Hopkins plays a character whose fierce independence is complicated by his worsening dementia. Acting awards went to Brad Pitt, Laura Dern, Joaquin Phoenix, and Renee Zellweger. T. The Watch. Jonny Cournoyer/Paramount Pictures The Mandalorian is the highest profile and most expensive original series to debut on the Disney+ streaming service. Terry Gross has hosted Fresh Air since 1975. The Old Guard stars Charlize Theron and KiKi Layne as members of a squad of fighters who have been in the battle game for much, much too long. An Emmy Award-winning actor (with another nomination under his belt this year). Why You Should Stream Booksmart, Plus What's Making Us Happy, Last year we talked about the movie Booksmart, and we really, really liked it. In that book Danny Torrance is all grown up, but still haunted — literally and figuratively — by the ghosts of his past. has been in the news a lot this year, both for James Holzhauer's historic championship run and for Alex Trebek's recent cancer diagnosis. Emma., Clueless, And What's Making Us Happy. We do too, and that's what we're talking about today: some recent films we missed that are well worth your time. song of the same name. And only then do they meet. Wells novel, Elisabeth Moss plays Cecilia, a woman who finally escapes an abusive partner. After production of HBO's Euphoria was shut down in March 2020, creator Sam Levinson turned to the show's star Zendaya and filmed Malcolm & Marie. Florence Pugh plays a young woman who tags along with her awful boyfriend and his pals to a remote Swedish village as they enact their bloody rituals. It's New Year's Day, so it's time to make some resolutions for 2020. None of them will get through it unchanged, and some of them won't get through it at all. We are deep into the Halloween season, and many of us are cooped up at home with our streaming services, scrolling through movie after movie full of monsters, murderers, jump scares, and rivers of blood. 'Yesterday' Imagines A World Without The Beatles. Pop Culture Happy Hour is a fun and freewheeling chat about the latest movies, television, books, and music. On Sunday night, the Kansas City Chiefs came from behind to beat the San Francisco 49ers 31-20 in Super Bowl LIV. Now, The Goldfinch has been adapted into a movie starring Ansel Elgort, Oakes Fegley, Nicole Kidman, Luke Wilson, Jeffrey Wright, Finn Wolfhard and Sarah Paulsen. Five days a week, Pop Culture Happy Hour serves you recommendations and commentary on the buzziest movies, TV, music, books, videogames and more. Started out eating rats, and now they're here. The biggest movie so far to be bumped from theaters to home viewing during the pandemic is Disney's Mulan. Is it brilliant blockbuster filmmaking or an emotionally empty miss? In the third film, John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum, Wick, played by Keanu Reeves, is on the run from foes and former friends alike. That's one of the takeaways from the new documentary Boys State, about a week-long program sponsored by the American Legion. Now, he's written and directed The Trial of the Chicago 7. A Tony Award-winning Broadway performer. Disney Plus has big plans for the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and the first show to arrive from its slate of Phase Four projects is WandaVision. And now, in its latest iteration, there's big money involved. On Wednesday, Beyoncé released two major projects. So we want to offer you some ideas for things you can use purely to manage Election Day itself. Directed by Lorene Scafaria, the film is already generating awards buzz for Jennifer Lopez. When The Karate Kid ended with a crane kick in 1984, it seemed like it was all over. The result is a collection of poignant stories buoyed by excellent performances from stars like John Boyega and Letitia Wright; as well as searing imagery, and a scene that could arguably be called the best movie moment of the year. Sometimes, all it takes to change your life is a cow. As the Marvel Cinematic Universe continues its march across Disney Plus, it needs a buddy show, specifically The Falcon And The Winter Soldier. Her song with Cardi B, "WAP," topped the Billboard Hot 100 — as did, of course, her remix of "Savage" with Beyoncé. You can support NPR by donating to your local member station at donate.npr.org/happy. As awards season kicks off, Pop Culture Happy Hour revisits great performers and a few of their essential performances, and there isn't a better place to start than with Regina King. Might be an app, might be a toy, might be a belt that can hold a beer can. But is the film itself any good? The Last Dance follows the Bulls' final championship season, and it dips back into history to look at how the dynasty was made. Pop Culture Happy Hour is NPR's pop-culture roundtable podcast. The film takes them on an adventure that might not have been possible in normal circumstances, answering the question: What do bored and frustrated people do during a pandemic? For the last four seasons, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend has followed Rebecca Bunch as she pursued love, dreaded her mother, and tried to address her mental health. This time, Woody has to protect a homemade toy named Forky, voiced by Tony Hale. The Forty-Year-Old Version And What's Making Us Happy. (This episode originally aired on January 19, 2018. We'll get into what surprised us and what disappointed us. And there's a lot to unpack. When you're staying in, it can be hard to keep everybody happy. Sales are surging for books like Ibram X. Kendi's 'How To Be Anti-Racist,' Robin DiAngelo's 'White Fragility,' and Michelle Alexander's 'The New Jim Crow.' Adam Sandler stars as compulsive gambler Howard Ratner, and the film is so tense that calling it tense seems completely inadequate. The Guy (Ben Sinclair) on High Maintenance. In Maria Semple's novel Where'd You Go, Bernadette, Bernadette Fox is a wife and mother who mysteriously vanishes from her ordinary life in the middle of a personal crisis. Subscribe to the Newsletter. The group called itself a self-help organization while a lot of other people called it a cult. ), The panel discusses Netflix's new wrestling comedy GLOW with NPR's Code Switch Kat Chow. To prepare for South by Southwest each year, we listen to countless hours of music in search of discoveries to share, from this year's Austin 100. Great British Baking Show And What's Making Us Happy. It also stars Don Johnson and Tim Blake Nelson, alongside Jean Smart and a very odd Jeremy Irons, who are both playing characters from the comic. The Starz drama P-Valley is set in a Black strip club in the Mississippi delta. Related Pages. And we need it too. Billy Porter On Pose, Kinky Boots And More. RuPaul's Drag Race began in 2009 as a raggedy spoof of reality competition shows, with hilariously low-rent production values on Logo. Kevin Winter/Getty Images This fall, it's been revived for a fourth iteration — this time in primetime on ABC. The next presidential election is still just over a year away, but it feels like the last one never ended. Latinx Songs That Helped Shape The Decade. We miss the roar of a blissed-out crowd and experiencing art at the moment of its creation. Reality television has long had a fascination with some factions of the extremely rich. This is the question at the center of the marvelous new comedy Knives Out. Natalie Portman plays Lena in Alex Garland's new film Annihilation. First Cow is a western, a friendship story, a caper movie, and even a meditation on nature. The show follows Ted's first season of play, which begins as a doomed campaign masterminded by an embittered team owner who's trying to tank her own team. We'll talk about what holds up, what looks really different, and what we miss the most. We revisit some of the TV, film and music that helped us make it through. Whodunit? 14m ago 14m ago. Mackenzie Davis as Tully and Charlize Theron as Marlo in Tully. The King Of Staten Island And What's Making Us Happy. But what is an anti-racist reading list for? Like its successful predecessor, 2017's Wonder Woman, it's directed by Patty Jenkins and stars Gal Gadot as our heroine. We're here to help. But then came sequels. It uses unconventional techniques to place the journalist's story within Rogers' land of make believe. Though true to the Coen Brother's sensibilities, creator Noah Hawley injects it with darkly oddball humor and characters. We call this segment People We're Pulling For. So that's why we are talking about Die Hard. The Watch. Steven Yeun's filmography reveals a remarkably varied career. In it, the fictional Radha, frustrated by a stall in her theater career, finds a new passion: she becomes a rapper. We will never get tired of Hans Gruber versus John McClane — Alan Rickman versus Bruce Willis — the real clash of the titans. He gave one of last year's most critically acclaimed onscreen performances as a troubled Vietnam war vet in Spike Lee's Da Five Bloods. This year's show brought lots of Taylor Swift, and Missy Elliott, not to mention Lizzo, Normani, Lil Nas X, Rosalía and more. 1. In 2016, Phoebe Waller-Bridge presented the world with Fleabag. Everyone needs inspiration. 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