We asked Hollywood actors and writers to imagine the strikes on screen
Some striking writers and actors told us it would be a rom-com. Others suggested a mystery, an alien abduction movie, or even a heist flick!
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Meg Ryan rethinks the rom-com genre in her new film 'What Happens Later'
NPR's Juana Summers speaks with actress and director Meg Ryan about her new movie, What Happens Later, in which former lovers get snowed in at an airport overnight.
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 Gilded Age podcast, food influencer Keith Lee, the show Bargain, and Madi Diaz's new album.
Jeff Yang's new book is a 'cheer out loud' for the films that made Asian America
NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with authors Jeff Chang and Preeti Chhibber about The Golden Screen: The Movies that Made Asian America. The book looks at films that have shaped Asian American identities.
New tools help artists fight AI by directly disrupting the systems
Visual artists are fighting back against unauthorized uses of AI on their work by using tools that contaminate and confuse the AI systems. One tool, for example, can make AI think a dog is a cat.
Stop what you're doing, this is important: Cup Noodles can soon be safely microwaved
NPR's Juana Summers speaks with Jon Kung, author of Kung Food: Chinese American Recipes from a Third-Culture Kitchen, about the evolution of instant ramen noodles.
Meg Ryan on what romance means to her — and why her new movie isn't really a rom-com
The queen of rom-coms plays with the genre in What Happens Later.
Intimate and piercingly sad, 'Priscilla' is Sofia Coppola's strongest movie in years
Adapted from Priscilla Presley's 1985 memoir, the film shows us the cracks in Elvis' Prince Charming veneer — the way he lavishes Priscilla with attention and then suddenly withholds it.
'Fresh Air' remembers 'Friends' star Matthew Perry
Perry, who died in Oct. 28, played the sarcastic but lovable Chandler Bing on Friends. He spoke to Terry Gross in 2007. Plus, we listen back to our 2003 interview with Lisa Kudrow, who played Phoebe.
3 books in translation for fall that are big — in different ways
Vengeance Is Mine, Undiscovered, Pedro and Marques Take Stock come from one of France's most significant living writers, a major voice in Peru, and a new talent from Brazil, respectively.