Neubauer Artists Happy Hour Show

The comedy series The Fall and Rise of Reggie Dinkins stars Tracy Morgan as a disgraced former football star and Daniel Radcliffe as a documentary filmmaker who team up to make a movie. The NBC/Peacock mockumentary sitcom also stars Erika Alexander and Bobby Moynihan, with creators who come from shows like 30 Rock, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt and Girls5eva – and the joke density bears that out. The show is back for a second season, so today we’re revisiting our conversation about the series.

If you need more great ensemble comedies, check out these episodes: 

‘Widow’s Bay’ is an island in the scream

Lisa Kudrow returns in 'The Comeback,' and we did need to see that

Gen Z awkwardly transitions into 'Adults'

Connect with Pop Culture Happy Hour:
Letterboxd / Facebook
Our weekly newsletter
Support public media with NPR+ and enjoy perks for over 25 podcasts like this one. This show’s perks include bonus episodes and sponsor-free listening. Learn more at plus.npr.org.

See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for sponsorship and to manage your podcast sponsorship preferences.

NPR Privacy Policy

The new Disney+ show VisionQuest is the latest Marvel television series, and it’s one of the good ones. It’s the conclusion of the trilogy that began with WandaVision and continued through Agatha All Along, reuniting actors Paul Bettany, who plays the synthezoid Avenger named Vision, and James Spader, who returns as Ultron. The show is a timely parable about artificial intelligence, and it’s yet another superhero story that grapples with daddy issues, big time.

Looking to dive more into the world of the MCU? Check out these episodes:

Marvel's 'Ironheart' suits up

Marvel’s ‘Wonder Man’ is a low-key, low-stakes buddy comedy

‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’ is a dark night of the spider-soul

Connect with Pop Culture Happy Hour:
Letterboxd / Facebook
Our weekly newsletter
Support public media with NPR+ and enjoy perks for over 25 podcasts like this one. This show’s perks include bonus episodes and sponsor-free listening. Learn more at plus.npr.org.

See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for sponsorship and to manage your podcast sponsorship preferences.

NPR Privacy Policy

Nothing’s fair in love and war — and it's especially true in the very watchable HBO series War. Dominic West and Sienna Miller play a high-profile British couple duking it out in a high-stakes divorce. And the cutthroat litigation between the law firms representing them threatens to rival any of the marriage drama they’ve got going on. War was created by George Kay, who is also behind shows like Lupin and Highjack.

If you enjoy high stakes, bingeable dramas, check out these episodes:

'Nemesis' brings strong 'Heat' vibes, and we're not mad at it

‘The Pitt’ approaches the end of a very long shift

Connect with Pop Culture Happy Hour:
Letterboxd / Facebook
Our weekly newsletter
Support public media with NPR+ and enjoy perks for over 25 podcasts like this one. This show’s perks include bonus episodes and sponsor-free listening. Learn more at plus.npr.org.

See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for sponsorship and to manage your podcast sponsorship preferences.

NPR Privacy Policy

Do you like scary movies? It's spooky season, so what better way to get into the Halloween spirit than plopping down in front of a film engineered to scare your pants off. Today, in this encore episode, we’re revisiting our conversation about the scariest movie we've ever seen – including The Babadook, Event Horizon, The Night of the Hunter, and… Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.

Looking for more spooky season scares? Try these episodes:

In ‘Obsession,’ love hurts. It really, really, really hurts.

'The Conjuring: Last Rites' caps off a big summer for demon hunters

In ‘Weapons’, the kids aren't at all right, not in the slightest, nope

Is '28 Years Later' worth the wait?

Connect with Pop Culture Happy Hour:
Letterboxd / Facebook
Our weekly newsletter
Support public media with NPR+ and enjoy perks for over 25 podcasts like this one. This show’s perks include bonus episodes and sponsor-free listening. Learn more at plus.npr.org.

See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for sponsorship and to manage your podcast sponsorship preferences.

NPR Privacy Policy

Wildwood is one of the best movies of the year. It’s an epic stop-motion animated saga about a young girl trying to rescue her brother, and it’s filled with raging battles, fantastical animals and a voice cast featuring Carey Mulligan, Mahershala Ali, Angela Bassett, and Tom Waits. Wildwood was made by Laika, the studio behind Coraline and Kubo and the Two Strings. 

If you’re looking for other great animated films, check out these episodes:
In 'Toy Story 5,' playtime's over and screentime's in

'Forgotten Island' is a cluttered feast for the senses

Connect with Pop Culture Happy Hour:
Letterboxd / Facebook
Our weekly newsletter
Support public media with NPR+ and enjoy perks for over 25 podcasts like this one. This show’s perks include bonus episodes and sponsor-free listening. Learn more at plus.npr.org.

See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for sponsorship and to manage your podcast sponsorship preferences.

NPR Privacy Policy

Clayface brings R-rated body horror to this origin story of a Batman villain. The film stars Tom Rhys Harries as an actor whose dream life crumbles after an encounter with a mob boss leaves him disfigured. Desperate for a solution, he receives a revolutionary procedure involving nanotechnology powered by AI. What could go wrong? Director James Watkins goes hard on the horror elements, but is the DC Universe big enough to go beyond superhero fare, and take a walk on the creepy, crawly side?

For more Batman villains on screen, check out these episodes:
In 'The Penguin' a C-list villain gets an A-list series

'Joker: Folie à Deux' is much a deux about nothing

Connect with Pop Culture Happy Hour:
Letterboxd / Facebook
Our weekly newsletter
Support public media with NPR+ and enjoy perks for over 25 podcasts like this one. This show’s perks include bonus episodes and sponsor-free listening. Learn more at plus.npr.org.

See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for sponsorship and to manage your podcast sponsorship preferences.

NPR Privacy Policy

Wicker is somehow the coziest and horniest movie of the fall. Olivia Coleman and Alexander Skarsgård star as the unlikely couple: She’s a fisherwoman who commissions a husband literally made of wicker. The newly-kindled romance upends their small medieval town, where the men are the worst and the women are — surprise surprise — bored and unsatisfied with their own husbands.

Are you looking for more Alexander Skarsgård? Check out these episodes:

In ‘Pillion,’ submission is the mission 

'Murderbot' envisions a caustically funny future

Connect with Pop Culture Happy Hour:
Letterboxd / Facebook
Our weekly newsletter
Support public media with NPR+ and enjoy perks for over 25 podcasts like this one. This show’s perks include bonus episodes and sponsor-free listening. Learn more at plus.npr.org.

See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for sponsorship and to manage your podcast sponsorship preferences.

NPR Privacy Policy

We all love actor/writer Sharon Horgan, and she’s got a new show on HBO called Youth. Horgan stars as Alex, a 50-year-old divorcée who finds herself at several simultaneous personal and professional crossroads. But where does this new show fall in the Horgan canon? Is it essential, or is it more of a vestigial Horgan?

Looking for more TV and movies about navigating mid-life?  Check out these episodes:
‘The Invite’ is a marriage comedy with sex and heart
A twisty scam goes haywire in the fun 'Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed'
In Tina Fey’s ‘The Four Seasons,’ marriage is far from a vacation
In ‘Rooster,’ Steve Carell makes some college admissions

Connect with Pop Culture Happy Hour:
Letterboxd / Facebook
Our weekly newsletter
Support public media with NPR+ and enjoy perks for over 25 podcasts like this one. This show’s perks include bonus episodes and sponsor-free listening. Learn more at plus.npr.org.

See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for sponsorship and to manage your podcast sponsorship preferences.

NPR Privacy Policy

A new Jane Austen adaptation is going to give you love, family and honor, repressed emotions and probably financial peril that can only be resolved through marriage. A new film version of Austen's Sense and Sensibility touches on those familiar themes with the Dashwood family, which include the two oldest sisters Elinor (Daisy Edgar-Jones) and Marianne (Esmé Creed-Miles). They are, in true Austen fashion, at the mercy of laws that deny widows and daughters financial security. But is this new film a sensible addition to Austen’s film canon?

Looking for more buzzy adaptations? Check out these episodes:
Truth is elusive in the erotic thriller ‘Verity’
'East of Eden' brings a light modern touch to an epic literary classic
Should you test out ‘The Love Hypothesis’?

Connect with Pop Culture Happy Hour:
Letterboxd / Facebook
Our weekly newsletter
Support public media with NPR+ and enjoy perks for over 25 podcasts like this one. This show’s perks include bonus episodes and sponsor-free listening. Learn more at plus.npr.org.

See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for sponsorship and to manage your podcast sponsorship preferences.

NPR Privacy Policy

Guy meets whale; complications ensue. That's basically the plot of the new survival thriller Whalefall. It stars Austin Abrams as Jay, who goes diving in search of his deceased father (Josh Brolin) – and is swallowed by a whale. Based on the book by Daniel Kraus, the movie also has a lot to say about fathers and sons, as well as the lessons they have to teach each other.

If you’re looking for more with Austin Abrams, check out these episodes:

‘Resident Evil' is a grisly, funny fight to survive
In 'Weapons', the kids aren't at all right, not in the slightest, nope
High school is hazardous in the stylish 'Do Revenge'

Connect with Pop Culture Happy Hour:
Letterboxd / Facebook
Our weekly newsletter
Support public media with NPR+ and enjoy perks for over 25 podcasts like this one. This show’s perks include bonus episodes and sponsor-free listening. Learn more at plus.npr.org.

See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for sponsorship and to manage your podcast sponsorship preferences.

NPR Privacy Policy