What’s Making Us Happy: A guide to your weekend viewing and listening
Each week, guests and hosts on NPR’s Pop Culture Happy Hour share what’s bringing them joy. This week: the Mystery Menu series, The Alarmist podcast, Every Body and Two Can Play That Game.
‘Biosphere’ takes a mostly comic look at a friendship between the last men on Earth
In Mel Eslyn’s film Biosphere, the last two men on Earth must adapt and evolve to save humanity… or play video games.
Remembering Alan Arkin, an Oscar- and Tony-winning actor/filmmaker
Arkin, who died June 29, got his start creating characters with the comedy troupe Second City and later won an Oscar for his role in Little Miss Sunshine. Originally broadcast Sept. 29, 1989.
Kristen Lovell, co-director of ‘The Stroll,’ knows sex work is real work
NPR’s Ari Shapiro speaks with Kristen Lovell, co-director of the HBO documentary ‘The Stroll.’ It’s the story of the trans women who worked the streets of the Meatpacking District in New York City.
After Vietnam, the Philippines could be next to ban ‘Barbie.’ Here’s why
Philippine film regulators are reviewing Barbie after a senator said it depicts a map that China uses to lay claim to nearly all of the South China Sea. Warner Bros. says it’s just a “doodle.”
Buckle up: This mile-a-minute ‘Joy Ride’ across China is a raunchy romp
It’s hard not to get swept up in this journey — full of filthy one-liners and priceless sight gags. And the film pulls it off with a level of savvy about Asian culture still rarely seen in Hollywood.
For the intersex community, ‘Every Body’ exists on a spectrum
Alicia Roth Weigel is one of three activists profiled in Julie Cohen’s new documentary. She says intersex is an umbrella term for people whose “anatomy doesn’t fit super neatly into a binary box.”
Wham’s story as told by the duo, Andrew Ridgely and the late George Michael
NPR’s Rob Schmitz talks to Chris Smith, director of Netflix’s documentary WHAM! — George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley went from school friends to global stars.
Remembering Oscar-winning actor and British Parliament member Glenda Jackson
Jackson, who died June 15, won Oscars for her performances in the 1969 movie Women in Love and the 1973 comedy A Touch of Class. She was elected to Pariament in 1992. Originally broadcast in 2019.
An Orson Welles film was horribly edited — will cinematic justice finally be done?
Citizen Kane made Orson Welles a superstar. But his next movie, The Magnificent Ambersons, was edited into incoherence by the studio. Now, a Welles fan has used animation to recreate lost footage.
Hollywood actors are pushing back against studios using AI to clone them
The rise of artificial intelligence has Hollywood actors on edge. Studios are interested in how the technology can allow for digital clones of actors – and actors are pushing back.
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