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Poured Things. Maestromboli. The Calzone of Interest. If you’ve got a crowd coming over for the Academy Awards, let us help you feed them.
Pop Culture Happy Hour listeners voted on the top movies of all time to win best picture at the Oscars.
The final film in a stealth trilogy that began with Unbreakable, Glass is heavy on portentous explanations of comic-book tropes that require no explanation. It’s also just plain heavy. And slooow.
They’re the major MacGuffins of the Marvel Cinematic Universe — but there’s a lot of them, and you need a scorecard to keep track of which does what. We’re here for you.
The culture of comedy is one in which women have had little recourse to address sexual misconduct. The now-public allegations facing Louis C.K. suggest this may be changing.
The broadcast, cable and streaming networks have a lot on tap for the remainder of 2017. The Pop Culture Happy Hour team, joined by NPR TV critic Eric Deggans, has a roundup.
In the Game of Thrones episode “The Spoils of War,” someone goes home, someone goes spelunking and many, many, many someones go to an impromptu barbecue.
The third episode of Game of Thrones’ seventh season, “The Queen’s Justice,” featured a long-awaited meeting, a long-awaited reunion, and a long-dreaded goodbye to the show’s best character.
Foray voiced a wide variety of animated characters, and she brought the same genial humor and warmth to them all — except one.
In “Stormborn,” lots of long-hoarded information was finally shared, and in a massive sea battle, buckles got gruesomely swashed.
Several game shows from the ‘70s and ‘80s have been revamped for summer TV, including Battle of the Network Stars, The Gong Show and Match Game. NPR’s Pop Culture Happy Hour podcast talks about whether these shows are diversionary fluff or filling a summertime need.
‘Dragonstone’ saw the disparate plot threads of HBO’s hit series pulling together as Daenerys Targaryan returned to Westeros to claim the Iron Throne.
The first Harry Potter book came out 20 years ago today. One year later, in 1998, was the first time we mentioned the book, on All Things Considered. Here’s Margot Adler’s piece in its entirety.
The technology around us has made its way into all kinds of movies — sci-fi, thrillers, horror. But there’s one movie genre it hasn’t been able to infiltrate — the romantic comedy.
The creator of The Dating Game, The Newlywed Game and The Gong Show, which he also hosted, died Tuesday at 87. His shows were cheap to produce — and he made sure they looked it.
Netflix announced it will bring back the wildly-popular-until-it-wasn’t Queer Eye for the Straight Guy for eight episodes. Production will start in the spring. We have notes. (Note #1: Don’t.)
The 2017 Academy Award nominations were announced this morning. La La Land, as widely predicted, racked up the most, while Moonlight made a strong showing, as did Hell or High Water.
Need some podcasts to listen to on your way home for the holidays? We recommend 19 specific episodes of (non-NPR) shows that dropped in 2016.