FANCY BLACK LADY is the witty, sometimes gritty, all-the-way grown lifestyle and culture podcast. Co-hosts Jamila and Landria talk current events, parenting and the workplace through the lens of two experienced, multifaceted Black women. Their lively, intimate rapport invites listeners in on conversations that are honest, authentic and informed.
…
continue reading
Get obsessed with us. Five days a week, Pop Culture Happy Hour serves you recommendations and commentary on the buzziest movies, TV, music, books, videogames and more. Join arts journalists Linda Holmes, Glen Weldon, Stephen Thompson, and Aisha Harris - plus a rotating cast of guest pop culture aficionados. The Happy Hour team leaves room at the table for exploring a range of reactions and opinions on every bit of the pop universe. From lowbrow to highbrow to the stuff in between, they take ...
…
continue reading
Sports aren't just games. They're intertwined with epic stories about struggle, human behavior, historic greatness and grand emotions. In other words, sports make for great documentaries. And if you're looking for some good ones, we've got recommendations: Winning Time: Reggie Miller vs. The New York Knicks, The Armstrong Lie, and Athlete A. Learn …
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
Despicable Me 4 serves up 90 minutes of bankable mayhem
16:43
16:43
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
16:43
Despicable Me 4 is the latest film in an animation franchise that made household names of reformed supervillain Gru (Steve Carrell) and his army of nattering Minions. The franchise has grossed billions of dollars, and the latest movie topped the weekend box office. But are these films growing up with their audience, or continuing to cater to young …
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
How we entertain and amuse ourselves on a road trip
11:54
11:54
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
11:54
It's summer, so we're talking all about road trips. Should you blast music that's familiar or unfamiliar? What makes for a good road trip audiobook? What are some road trip games we hate? Pop Culture Happy Hour talked all about how to entertain and amuse ourselves in the car way back in 2012. Today, in this encore episode, we're revisiting that con…
…
continue reading
The new movie MaXXXine stars Mia Goth as an adult-film actress who gets her big break in Hollywood, only to be revisited by horrors from her past. Set in 1985 Los Angeles, it's the final film in director Ti West's beloved horror trilogy that began with the movie X. MaXXXine also features performances from Kevin Bacon, Elizabeth Debicki, and Giancar…
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
Bowen Yang thinks being present is overrated
28:04
28:04
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
28:04
The Pop Culture Happy Hour team is off today, so we're bringing you an episode of the NPR podcast Wild Card with Rachel Martin. This episode is an interview with Bowen Yang. He is the first Chinese American cast member on SNL, the co-host the podcast Las Culturistas, and he starred in the rom-com Fire Island. He talks to Rachel about living too muc…
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
Megan Thee Stallion sheds her skin on Megan
19:59
19:59
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
19:59
A lot has happened to rapper Megan Thee Stallion over the last couple of years including a highly publicized trial after being shot by a former friend, a messy breakup, and a feud with artist Nicki Minaj. She confronts all of that and more on her boastful and vulnerable new album Megan. But she also has fun on playful tracks like 'Down Stairs DJ' a…
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
Yes, chef: The Bear has a lot going on in its third season
24:48
24:48
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
24:48
The Bear just returned for its third season and it's still one of the most stressful and most interesting shows on TV. Carmy (Jeremy Allen White) and Sydney (Ayo Edebiri) are launching their new fine dining restaurant, but he's estranged from some of the people who are closest to him just as he sneaks up on a new level of success. The series is str…
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
In A Quiet Place: Day One, Lupita Nyong'o makes silence golden
16:49
16:49
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
16:49
In the post-apocalyptic world of A Quiet Place, aliens kill anyone who makes a sound, forcing humans into a near-silent existence. The new movie A Quiet Place: Day One takes us back to the beginning, but this time through the eyes of a terminally ill cancer patient played by the excellent Lupita Nyong'o. Learn more about sponsor message choices: po…
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
Kinds of Kindness and what's making us happy
23:25
23:25
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
23:25
Kinds of Kindness is a weird, dark, and bleak film. It's directed by Yorgos Lanthimos (Poor Things) and it re-teams him with Emma Stone and Willem Dafoe, along with Jesse Plemons. Each actor plays different characters in three different stories — which all involve someone going to extreme measures to regain something they've lost. Learn more about …
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
Lily Gladstone's Fancy Dance is a road trip worth taking
17:18
17:18
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
17:18
The new film Fancy Dance offers something all-too-rare on screen: contemporary Indigenous perspectives, front and center. Lily Gladstone plays a woman trying to keep it together under stressful circumstances. Her sister's gone missing, and she steps in to look after her young niece (Isabel Deroy-Olson). The pair take what turns out to be a rocky ro…
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
Will they or won't they? Unpacking TV's eternal question
23:08
23:08
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
23:08
Jim and Pam. Mulder and Scully. Janine and Gregory. Carmy and Sydney. Meredith and McDreamy. You know how it goes: two television characters with obvious chemistry who fight or look at each other longingly. You know that there's only one question: will they, or won't they? Today, we break down the different types of will-they-won't-they couples and…
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
Is Star Wars' The Acolyte a force to be reckoned with?
23:18
23:18
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
23:18
The new Disney+ Star Wars series The Acolyte is a murder mystery. Someone is killing great Jedi masters, and while we learn the killer's identity early on, the real mystery driving the series is why they're doing it. It stars Amandla Stenberg as Force-sensitive twins Osha and Mae, and Squid Game's Lee Jung-jae as Osha's former Jedi master. By the t…
…
continue reading
Financial scams are an unfortunate phenomenon, but what happens when a fraudster messes with the wrong grandma? The very fun action-comedy Thelma imagines exactly this scenario. The movie stars June Squibb as a woman scammed by someone pretending to be her grandson. She then enlists her old friend (the late Richard Roundtree) to help get her money …
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
HBO's Fantasmas is new and different and uniquely itself
17:58
17:58
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
17:58
The brilliant and idiosyncratic new HBO series Fantasmas has a simple plot. Creator and star Julio Torres searches New York City for an earring he lost at a club. In the execution, that quest gets transformed into something epic and surreal and queer in every sense of the word. He keeps bumping into random New Yorkers whose stories play out in a se…
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
Bridgerton closes out a crowded third season
18:48
18:48
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
18:48
The second half of Bridgerton's latest season just dropped on Netflix, and naturally the course of true love continues to not run smoothly. Colin Bridgerton (Luke Newton) and Penelope Featherington (Nicola Coughlan) may have finally declared their feelings for each other, but there's still a lot left to figure out. We previously talked about the fi…
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
It's getting hot. So what's sweatiest movie ever made?
22:10
22:10
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
22:10
Whether they're lightly perspiring, gently glowing, or soaked through from sweltering, people in the movies sweat a lot. But what movie has had people sweat the very most? With summer underway, we are debating what is the sweatiest movie of all time — including Do the Right Thing, Dog Day Afternoon, Y tu mamá también, and Body Heat. Learn more abou…
…
continue reading
Pixar's Inside Out introduced us to the core emotions inside an 11-year-old girl named Riley. We met Joy (Amy Poehler), Sadness (Phyllis Smith), and Anger (Lewis Black). In Inside Out 2, Riley is experiencing puberty and a whole new crop of emotions have popped up. Most notably Anxiety (Maya Hawke) who has literally bottled up Riley's original core…
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
Jake Gyllenhaal's Presumed Innocent updates a legal thriller
23:03
23:03
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
23:03
Presumed Innocent was a blockbuster legal thriller as a novel, and then a hit movie starring Harrison Ford. Now, Apple TV+ brings back the story of the accuser turned defendant as a limited series. Jake Gyllenhaal plays the lead this time, as a prosecutor who is accused of the murder of the colleague he'd had an affair with. David E. Kelley (Big Li…
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
Our favorite graduation moments in pop culture
23:58
23:58
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
23:58
This is the time of year when so many students graduate. Whether it's graduation episodes of our favorite TV series, high school songs, or movies about the last wild night of high school, we're revisiting our episode about the best moments about graduation in pop culture. Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Pr…
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
Am I OK? is a coming-out movie for adults
14:36
14:36
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
14:36
Am I OK? is a about what happens when you finally come to accept your sexuality much later in life than many do. It stars Dakota Johnson and Sonoya Mizuno as two women in their 30s who have been best friends a long time. But Johnson's character is grappling with the possibility that she's queer – and with the fact that her most treasured friendship…
…
continue reading
Netflix's entertaining dark comedy Hit Man is not about a hired killer. It's about a guy who pretends to be a hired killer. Director Richard Linklater co-wrote this film with movie star of the moment, Glen Powell. Based very loosely on a real guy, Powell plays a mild-mannered professor who also works undercover for the police as a fake hitman. We w…
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
Doctor Who is enlivened by its new Black, openly queer star
26:36
26:36
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
26:36
The venerable British science fiction series Doctor Who is back with a new season. Ncuti Gatwa — who is Black and openly queer — brings a vibrant energy to the story of an alien who travels through space and time in a blue box. The series, now streaming on Disney+, also features the return of showrunner Russell T. Davies, who birthed the modern era…
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
Clipped recreates an embarrassing NBA scandal
21:20
21:20
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
21:20
The new FX limited series Clipped tells the story of Donald Sterling, the then-owner of the Los Angeles Clippers, who was outed as a racist. Sterling's girlfriend – who was Black and Mexican – secretly recorded their conversations. When those tapes leaked, he was embroiled in a scandal that upended the NBA – an industry that profits off the star po…
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
Looking back at The Sopranos, the godfather of prestige TV
25:10
25:10
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
25:10
The Sopranos changed television. The HBO series was centered on mobster Tony Soprano (James Gandolfini), a deeply flawed male antihero. That then- innovative approach cast a long shadow on television, but what really set The Sopranos apart was the fact that Tony was in therapy — a genius touch that granted viewers special access to his inner confli…
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
Best Fictional Bands And What's Making Us Happy
27:13
27:13
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
27:13
Sometimes, our favorite musical artists are too good to be true because they're sprung from the imaginations of Hollywood screenwriters. But what makes a fake band great? Today, we are debating the best fictional bands in TV and film — including from Mamma Mia!, Josie and the Pussycats, It's Your Move, and Miami Connection. We want to hear your opi…
…
continue reading