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Pop Culture Happy Hour

Fun movies we missed

Pop Culture Happy Hour

NPR

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🗓️ 12 May 2026

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

One basic truth of the streaming era is that streaming movies come at you fast. So we’re recommending three fun movies that we haven't covered on the show that you can stream at home: Apex, Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice, and Thrash.

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0:00.0

One basic truth of the streaming era is that streaming movies come at you fast. The good

0:09.5

ones, the bad ones, the silly ones, it's an absolute deluge. And sometimes it's worth taking a

0:15.1

breath and checking in on some of the ones you might have missed. I'm Linda Holmes. And I'm

0:19.7

Aisha Harris. And today on NPR's

0:21.7

Pop Culture Happy Hour, Linda's going to recommend some fun movies that you can stream at home.

0:27.0

And now it's just the two of us today. Linda, you know, sometimes we both catch up with

0:32.0

streaming movies that seem a little offbeat. And today you've got three that you've seen

0:36.1

and that we haven't covered on the show that you think might be worth a watch.

0:40.5

That's right.

0:40.8

I'm calling these fun streaming movies to check out at home.

0:43.8

And they are fun, I will say, in different ways as we will get into.

0:48.8

All right.

0:49.3

So the first one is one that I have actually seen.

0:52.4

I also, off mic, just called this Mikey and Nikki,

0:56.1

referring to the 1976 Elaine May movie. I've also called it Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice.

1:01.6

I think we all have. Tell us what is this movie actually called. So Mike and Nick and Nick and

1:08.5

Alice is a movie that came out on Hulu at the end of March.

1:12.3

It stars James Marsden, Vince Vaughn, and Aza Gonzalez.

1:17.7

Mike, who is played by Marsden, is kind of a hired gun.

1:21.4

They're both sort of gangsters.

1:23.0

And Mike is also having an affair with Nick's wife, Alice, who is played by Gonzalez.

1:27.9

Mike is trying to quit the gangster business, I guess you'd say.

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