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April 2, 2025 • In Daredevil: Born Again, Charlie Cox returns as everyone's favorite blind-but-with-heightened-senses Marvel superhero. This time out, he hangs up his horns and throws himself ...

Glen Weldon is a host of NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour podcast. He reviews books, movies, comics and more for the NPR Arts Desk. Over the course of his career, he has spent time as a theater critic ...

In the gleefully grisly action movie Novocaine, Jack Quaid plays a sweet, nerdy guy who does not experience physical pain. He falls for a woman (Amber Midthunder) who's determined to get him to leave ...

The Yankees 20-9 win against the Brewers last weekend put the spotlight on torpedo bats. But in baseball, as in life, ...

In the very funny new satire The Studio, Seth Rogen plays a Hollywood studio head desperately trying to do a job he's afraid ...

I'm Stephen Thompson, and today, we are talking about Opus on Pop Culture Happy Hour from NPR. THOMPSON: Joining me today is NPR music reporter, Sidney Madden. Hey, Sidney. SIDNEY MADDEN ...

At the Eastend spa, a ‘saunamaster’ brings a soothing European practice to the city’s tense, exhausted masses.

We debate the best live TV moments in pop culture Live television is all about ... The walkout, which reportedly took place with only about a half-hour advance notice, came before a broader ...

And we lost both a great actor and a beloved singer. Here's what NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour crew was paying attention to — and what you should check out this weekend. Flow is one of the films ...

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Before the Academy Awards earlier this month, NPR’s Pop Culture Happy Hour podcast named performers who have never been ...