Aging in Hollywood
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
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Turning Mud into ‘Ink’: Danny Boyle’s New Feature Takes Us to the Birth of Rupert Murdoch’s Sketchy Tabloid
You may have missed Danny Boyle’s new film, ‘Ink’, when it bowed at the Venice Film Festival, but the trailer is out now ahead of its December US theatrical release.
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Stupid Poor People: Ti West’s Adaptation of ‘Ebenezer’ with Johnny Depp Asks “What if Scrooge Had a Point?”
Ti West wants the audience to sympathize with ‘Ebenezer’ by showing that he had a good reason for being such a scrooge.
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Sliding into Home: The Chicago Cubs Get in the Content Game with TikTok Series ‘Nine Innings to Love’
It’s a case of love in the cheap seats when two strangers connect in a short-form romance taking place over the course of a single Cubbies game.
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Disney Welcomes New IP to the Family with Global Distribution Deal with Pokémon, New Animated Series
The deal was announced at the Pokémon XP conference on Friday, where a teaser for the Aardman Animations-produced of ‘Pokémon Tales: The Misadventures of Sirfetch’d & Pichu’ was shown.
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The Family That Slays Together: Penn Badgley to Star in Prime’s ‘Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone’
Badgley, who played serial killer Joe Goldberg on ‘You’, is back in the murder game in ‘Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone’, based on the novel by Benjamin Stevenson.
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‘Golden Ticket’ to Hell: Netflix Ups the Creepiness in Reality Show Based on ‘Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory’
Netflix is taking the sweet, candy-colored menace behind the classic 1971 film ‘Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory’ and turning it into a frenetic reality show for adults, using the disembodied, AI-resurrected voice of the late Gene Wilder.
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’30’ Going on 20: Cast of ’30 Rock’ to Reunite for 20th Anniversary Performance at Radio City Music Hall
The ’30 Rock’ reunion show at Radio City, never to be televised (or so they say) will benefit the Boys and Girls Club of Harlem.
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‘How to Lose’ that ‘National Treasure’: Two Twenty-Something Films Announce Sequels in the Works
Both ‘How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days’ and ‘National Treasure’, from 2003 and 2004 respectively, have sequels in early development.
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All Rise: HBO Max Calls Court to Order for ‘The People v. Gorilla Grodd’ True Crime Mockumentary Series
DC’s new series-within-a-series will have Skyler Gisondo reprising his role as Jimmy Olsen from ‘Superman’ to direct a true crime series set in Metropolis.
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- PCJ Pop #51 October 20, 2026In PCJ Pops, the Pop Culture Junkies share their recommendations on what to experience in pop culture, today and yesterday. Shauna is popping the 2016 book My Best Friend’s Exorcism by Grady Hendrix. The tongue-in-cheek story set in the Satanic Panic era of the 1980s tells the tale of a lifelong friendship put to the test […]
