Glen Weldon

Glen Weldon appears in the following:

What's making us happy: A guide to your weekend listening and viewing

Friday, March 17, 2023

Each week, the guests and hosts on NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour share what's bringing them joy. This week: the Willem Dafoe film Inside and the podcast Louder Than A Riot.

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'Shazam! Fury of the Gods' is a near myth

Friday, March 17, 2023

The sequel to the 2019 film that starred Zachary Levi as the adult superhero persona of a lonely teen goes bigger. And goofier. But the fuel mixture's off and Levi's one-note performance grates.

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Michelle Yeoh is the first Asian woman to win best actress Oscar

Sunday, March 12, 2023

The Malaysian-born actor made history by winning the Academy Award for best actress in a leading role for her performance in Everything Everywhere All at Once.

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Creators are weighing whether to provide TV watchers with the "binge" experience

Sunday, March 12, 2023

We look at a debate that is currently something of a fixation for content creators: Should they provide a "binge" experience for a series, or dole out episodes weekly?

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What's making us happy: A guide to your weekend reading, listening and viewing

Friday, March 10, 2023

Each week, the guests and hosts on NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour share what's bringing them joy. This week: Atsuko Okatsuka's The Intruder, Netflix's Physical: 100, the Wingspan board game and more.

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What's making us happy: A guide to your weekend reading, listening and viewing

Friday, February 17, 2023

Each week, the guests and hosts on NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour share what's bringing them joy. This week: Scriptnotes podcast, Elissa Bassist's Hysterical, and more.

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In 'Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania,' the setting is subatomic — as are the stakes

Wednesday, February 15, 2023

The third film in Marvel's Ant-Man trilogy sends the MCU's tinest titans into a subatomic universe, where they — and we the viewers — get stuck.

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What's making us happy: A guide to your weekend reading, listening and viewing

Friday, February 10, 2023

Each week, the guests and hosts on NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour share what's bringing them joy. This week: the Switched on Pop episode about SZA, the movie Sharper, Burt Bacharach's legacy and more.

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What's making us happy: A guide to your weekend viewing

Friday, February 03, 2023

Each week, the guests and hosts on NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour share what's bringing them joy. This week: The Last of Us, The Looney Tunes Show and Ice Merchants.

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How 'The Last Of Us' makes an old plot line feel fresh

Friday, February 03, 2023

Zombie plot lines have been around for decades. So how do you make a dystopian T.V. show sound new? Here's how "The Last Of Us" pulled it off.

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'Extraordinary' is a super-powered comedy that's broad, brash and bingeable

Wednesday, January 25, 2023

In Hulu's sardonically silly comedy, everyone in the human race acquires different powers except for one young woman. And she's not happy about it.

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Here are your Oscar nomination predictions ...

Saturday, January 21, 2023

Nominations for the 95th Academy Awards will be announced on Tuesday. A number of films are up for top awards.

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At the end of humanity, 'The Last of Us' locates what makes us human

Thursday, January 12, 2023

Like the video game it's based on, the HBO series about a mutated fungi that destroys civilization spotlights the connections between its compelling characters, not the monsters they face.

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This Congressman-elect swears by (and on) vintage Superman

Friday, January 06, 2023

Congressman-elect Robert Garcia (D-Calif.) will (eventually) swear himself in on a copy of the Constitution, a photo of his parents, his certificate of U.S. citizenship and ... a copy of Superman #1.

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What's making us happy: A guide to your weekend viewing, listening and reading

Friday, December 30, 2022

Each week, the guests and hosts on NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour share what's bringing them joy. This week: The Menu, dancer Kim Hale, "Girlfriend" by Matthew Sweet, Drink Masters and more.

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'Fleishman Is in Trouble' looks at a failed marriage from multiple perspectives

Monday, December 26, 2022

Hulu's "Fleishman Is in Trouble" adapts a best-selling novel about a successful Upper West Side couple's failed marriage, using multiple perspectives to show what went wrong --- and why.

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The best movies and TV of 2022, picked for you by NPR critics

Tuesday, December 20, 2022

Whether you plan to head out to the theater, or binge from the couch, our critics have gathered together their favorite films and TV shows of the year. Happy watching!

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What's making us happy: A guide to your weekend viewing and reading

Friday, December 09, 2022

Each week, the guests and hosts on NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour share what's bringing them joy. This week: South Side, Treasure Planet, the Sight & Sound film list, Matt Rogers and more.

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'Andor' soared — it was about the force, not The Force, of the Star Wars universe

Wednesday, November 23, 2022

No lightsabers, no Jedi, no $%! Tatooine: Andor ditched familiar Star Wars trappings to document the face of fascism, and — thrillingly — of resistance.

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What's making us happy: A guide to your weekend listening, viewing and reading

Friday, November 11, 2022

Each week, the guests and hosts on NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour share what's bringing them joy. This week: The Carmichael Show, Stephanie Williams' work for Marvel, The English and more.

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