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Pop Culture Junkie® has your weekly entertainment fix! The Pop Culture Junkies review and preview the best of what's happening now and what's coming up in movies, music, TV and more. Tune in every week to hear the best in what you love most: pop culture.
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PCJ Pop #45 (opens the original)
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In PCJ Pops, the Pop Culture Junkies share their recommendations on what to experience in pop culture, today and yesterday. Shauna is gearing up for Avengers: Doomsday by watching all the Marvel content she’ll need to consume to know what’s going on in that movie, so she’s popping the Bryan Singer-directed X-Men (2000) and X2 from 2003. Both films feature Hugh Jackman, Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen (amongst others) and can be seen on Disney+. We have affordable and rewarding Patreon tiers! Be
Aging in Hollywood (opens the original)
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Olivia and Shauna get together in the Pop Culture Junkie studio to talk the good, the bad and the ugliest of Halloween costumes (looking at you, clowns) before getting to the main discussion: aging in Hollywood. There's long been a double standard when it comes to older actors, where men get stay visible in powerful and romantic roles, while women are relegated to playing mom to an actor five years their junior. And while things have changed to a certain degree, there's still a lot of discourse
PCJ Pop #44 (opens the original)
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In PCJ Pops, the Pop Culture Junkies share their recommendations on what to experience in pop culture, today and yesterday. The end of August means Spooky Season is upon us, so Olivia recommends the terrifying and poignant Netflix limited series The Haunting of Hill House from 2018. Based on the Shirley Jackson novel of the same name, the series was written and directed by Mike Flanagan and starred Henry Thomas, Carla Gugino and a cast of Mike Flanagan players. This episode includes AI-generated
PCJ Pop #43 (opens the original)
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In PCJ Pops, the Pop Culture Junkies share their recommendations on what to experience in pop culture, today and yesterday. Shauna binged the first season of the anime series Marriagetoxin, based on the manga by Joumyako, about an assassin who enlists the help of a matchmaker when he needs to find a wife for business purposes. It’s available on CrunchyRoll. We have affordable and rewarding Patreon tiers! Be the first to hear new and uncensored content, if you dare! Click here: https://www.patreo
Bond... James Bond with Daniel de Boulay (opens the original)
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Shauna and Olivia are joined by producer, essayist, and screenwriter Daniel de Boulay for this episode. Daniel has worked as an Acquisitions Executive at Sony Pictures for several years and is an alum of the Academy Awards Gold program. He is also an accomplished music producer and composer and is currently working on an essay about James Bond for the website The Splice. Daniel tells the Junkies about the film acquisitions process, what he's working on currently, and how open mic night at comedy
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