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Pop Culture Happy Hour: We Talk About Julia Roberts in 'Homecoming'

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Pop Culture Happy Hour: We Talk About Julia Roberts in 'Homecoming'

In the Amazon thriller Homecoming, Julia Roberts plays a caseworker at a facility that helps soldiers re-adjust to civilian life. Or at least that's what she thinks it does. But calls from a mysterious boss and sessions with a young soldier make her question everything.

Pop Culture Happy Hour: We Talk About Julia Roberts in 'Homecoming'

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'Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes Of Grindelwald': Beasts? Check. Crimes? Check. Fantastic? Not Quite.

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'Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes Of Grindelwald': Beasts? Check. Crimes? Check. Fantastic? Not Quite.

The second installment of J.K. Rowling's follow-up Potter franchise is as overstuffed as the first, but it's less muddled. It dutifully advances the story, but fails to deliver thrilling set-pieces.

Remembering Stan Lee

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Remembering Stan Lee

Stan Lee helped create some of the most indelible comic book characters in American popular culture, including Spider-Man, the X-Men, the Fantastic Four, Iron Man, and Black Panther. He died Monday. He was 95.

Remembering Stan Lee

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A True Believer Remembers Stan Lee

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A True Believer Remembers Stan Lee

Stan Lee — born Stanley Martin Lieber — co-created many beloved Marvel Comics characters, but he became the company's tireless, beloved figurehead. NPR's Glen Weldon offers a remembrance.

A True Believer Remembers Stan Lee

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A Marvel Of A Man: Stan Lee Dead At 95

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A Marvel Of A Man: Stan Lee Dead At 95

Lee gave us over six decades' worth of superheroes we could identify with, characters like Spider-Man and The Incredible Hulk, who reacted to superpowered crises in believably flawed, human ways.

A Marvel Of A Man: Stan Lee Dead At 95

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Late Night Beyond the Jimmys: 'Patriot Act' and 'Busy Tonight'

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Late Night Beyond the Jimmys: 'Patriot Act' and 'Busy Tonight'

There are a bunch of new shows to pay attention to this season, and today we're talking about two of our favorite talk entries — Patriot Act With Hasan Minhaj and Busy Tonight.

Late Night Beyond the Jimmys: 'Patriot Act' and 'Busy Tonight'

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'Nobody's Fool': Tiffany Haddish, Tyler Perry, And Learning To Love A Man With Abs

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'Nobody's Fool': Tiffany Haddish, Tyler Perry, And Learning To Love A Man With Abs

Nobody's Fool is a Tyler Perry movie, but maybe more important at the moment, it's a Tiffany Haddish movie. Haddish plays Tanya, who fears her sister is being catfished in an online relationship.

'Nobody's Fool': Tiffany Haddish, Tyler Perry, And Learning To Love A Man With Abs

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How Haunting is 'Hill House'?

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How Haunting is 'Hill House'?

The Netflix series The Haunting of Hill House tells what is, in many ways, an old-fashioned ghost story. Moving between the past and the present, the series traces the effects of trauma on a family that once chose to spend a summer living in a house that is up to no good.

How Haunting is 'Hill House'?

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No Bed Of Roses, No Pleasure Cruise: 'Bohemian Rhapsody'

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No Bed Of Roses, No Pleasure Cruise: 'Bohemian Rhapsody'

A fearless performance from Rami Malek and rock-solid rock anthems can't lift this listless musical biopic out of the sea of clichés in which it treads water.

A Couple Fights Fire With Fire In 'Wildlife'

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A Couple Fights Fire With Fire In 'Wildlife'

Wildlife, starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Carey Mulligan, tells the story of a marriage in crisis in 1960's Montana. Based on a novel by Richard Ford and directed by actor Paul Dano, it's told from the point of view of a young teenager watching his family fall to pieces.

A Couple Fights Fire With Fire In 'Wildlife'

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Carell And Chalamet Shine In 'Beautiful Boy'

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Carell And Chalamet Shine In 'Beautiful Boy'

Beautiful Boy is a story of addiction starring two Oscar-nominated actors. Timothée Chalamet plays Nic Sheff, who's addicted to crystal meth. Steve Carell plays David Sheff, his journalist father who's struggling to help him get well.

Carell And Chalamet Shine In 'Beautiful Boy'

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Does The New 'Halloween' Impale In Comparison?

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Does The New 'Halloween' Impale In Comparison?

It's been forty years since the release of the classic horror film, Halloween. Since then, the franchise has wandered through its own house of horrors in the form of sequels and reboots. The newest Halloween throws all of those additions out, and assumes that only the 1978 original ever happened.

Does The New 'Halloween' Impale In Comparison?

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We Go To First Base With 'Big Mouth'

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We Go To First Base With 'Big Mouth'

If you've been longing for a cartoon that covers the really important questions — like how to manage lust, and how to avoid your embarrassing parents — you are in luck. Big Mouth, Netflix's animated comedy series about the horrors of puberty, is back for a second season.

We Go To First Base With 'Big Mouth'

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