Jordan Crucchiola

Oct 29, 2024 | vulture.com | Jordan Crucchiola

Vampires were there at the very beginning of Gothic literature. It was a vampire that turned horror into big business for Hollywood almost a century ago, and while their popularity comes and goes in waves, vampires will forever be a staple of the genre onscreen. For this list, Vulture presents you with a sampler platter of vampire movies, with flavors from every decade over the past 50 years.

Oct 25, 2024 | boisestatepublicradio.org | Jordan Crucchiola |Linda Holmes

This week, Stevie Nicks aired her ID, a very chipper brand ran into a not-very-chipper lawsuit, and Paddington got a passport. Here's what NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour crew was paying attention to — and what you should check out this weekend. The Shadow StraysThe Shadow Strays is a new action spectacular by Timo Tjahjanto, which is now out on Netflix. This is Tjahjanto’s follow up toThe Night Comes for Us, which is a bone-shattering, mind-melting fight blitz of a movie – one of my favorites ever.

Oct 25, 2024 | npr.org | Glen Weldon |Jordan Crucchiola |Jordan Morris |Liz Metzger |Mike Katzif |Jessica Reedy

'Venom: The Last Dance' goos out with a bangIn Venom: The Last Dance, Tom Hardy returns for a third time as a sad-sack loser with an alien symbiotic life-form bonded to him. This time out, it's a buddy comedy and road movie, as the two are hunted by another race of aliens. And along the way, they meet some hippies, hit the Vegas strip, and get in a quick dance number.

Oct 18, 2024 | npr.org | Jordan Crucchiola |Reanna Cruz |Stephen Thompson |Linda Holmes

What's Making Us Happy: A guide to your weekend viewing and listeningThis week, a new told an old story, a veteran of musicals took her last bow , and we learned that something that could never be a movie is going to be a movie. Here's what NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour crew was paying attention to — and what you should check out this weekend.

Oct 17, 2024 | npr.org | Stephen Thompson |Reanna Cruz |Jordan Crucchiola |Hafsa Fathima |Mike Katzif |Jessica Reedy

The horror movie Smile was a massive hit. Its flashy new sequel Smile 2 finds the franchise's terrifying entity infecting a new host: a pop star (Naomi Scott) who's about to head out on tour after experiencing a trauma. And the movie has a lot to say about the horrors of pop stardom.