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Mailbag: The Movies We Walked Out Of
Aisha and Stephen answer a mailbag question! Send in your own questions at pcch@npr.org, and we may answer it in a future bonus episode.
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4 months, 2 weeks ago
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery And What’s Making Us Happy
Netflix’s Wake Up Dead Man is the third installment in the Knives Out franchise. Daniel Craig returns as detective Benoit Blanc -- with a cast of sus…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
Jay Kelly
In Netflix’s Jay Kelly, George Clooney plays the aging movie star Jay Kelly. His longtime manager (Adam Sander) and publicist (Laura Dern) struggle t…
4 months, 3 weeks ago
The Worst Christmas Movies
‘Tis the season you’ll find plenty of good holiday movies – films that can be counted upon to deliver warmth and cheer. And bad holiday movies? They …
4 months, 3 weeks ago
The Abandons
In Netflix’s The Abandons, Gillian Anderson and Lena Headey play two steely matriarchs that face off on the American frontier. But don’t let the spur…
4 months, 3 weeks ago
Five Nights at Freddy’s 2 and What’s Making Us Happy
In the new film Five Nights at Freddy’s 2, Josh Hutcherson returns as the protagonist trying to survive in a haunted children’s restaurant called Fre…
4 months, 3 weeks ago
2025 Pop Culture Favorites
It’s been a great year for TV, movies, and music. And we are highlighting some of the best, including KPop Demon Hunters, Sinners, and Severance. We’…
4 months, 3 weeks ago
Rereading Pride & Prejudice
This year, readers around the world are celebrating Jane Austen’s 250th birthday. Today we’ve got an episode of NPR’s Books We’ve Loved where Linda H…
4 months, 4 weeks ago
Hamnet
Hamnet tells the fictionalized account of the lives of William Shakespeare and his wife, played by Paul Mescal and Jessie Buckley. They fall in love,…
5 months ago
All’s Fair And What’s Making Us Happy
Ryan Murphy’s latest show All’s Fair centers on an all-female law firm led by Kim Kardashian, Naomi Watts, and Niecy Nash-Betts. The high-powered law…
5 months ago