Welcome to the Pop Culture Brain podcast, hosted by Alex and Lara! In today’s show, Warner Bros lost an insane amount of money this year, Jennifer Lawrence says she got death threats over her TV hot take, and My Chemical Romance snag the #1 album.

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00:00 Intro & My Chemical Romance

5:48 Justin Timberlake Apple doc series

8:48 Warner Bros. losses 2026

15:35 You Can See Everything award season

19:41 Jennifer Lawrence’s TV hot take

26:01 Linda Cardelini Price Is Right

28:57 Dr. Seuss movies

33:26 Lara hot take

36:08 What we’re watching

Welcome to the Pop Culture Brain podcast with Alex and Lara! Netflix is panicking, Inde Navarrette just summed up the most annoying thing in movies today, and the Golden Globes made another baffling decision.https://www.popculturebrain.com/p/links00:00 Intro & Halloween costumes04:12 Netflix is in panic mode13:18 Harry Styles hires a director19:39 Inde Navarrette nails it25:26 Golden Globes latest weird decision 30:00 List game: Documentaries37:19 Hot takes41:57 What we’re watching

Welcome to the Pop Culture Brain podcast with Alex and Lara! In today's show: Greta Gerwig’s Narnia movie has an insane budget and concerning rumors, Sony has a diabolical plan for their Beatles movies, and Skydance is going all in on franchises.

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00:00 Intro + You Can See Everything

07:59 The Magicians Nephew rumors

14:49 Krumholtz is back

18:22 The Beatles movies

25:46 Emma Stone coming for Meryl’s record

28:56 Skydance goes all in on franchises

33:54 List game

41:08 Hot takes

46:03 Watching

Welcome to the Pop Culture Brain podcast — a movie and TV news and discussion show with Alex and Lara! In today’s episode, major stars, filmmakers, and Gen Z are lining up to defend Digger, David Zaslav is making a disgusting amount of money selling Warner Bros., and Nic Cage just revealed why he’ll never work with Amazon again.

https://www.popculturebrain.com/p/links00:00 Intro & Olivia Wilde03:16 Stars defend Digger 08:40 Jeremy Allen White for Wilder?15:50 Zaslav gets paid 19:16 Nic Cage on Amazon and AI22:25 Amy Adams biggest movies 26:40 Hot takes32:23 What we’re watching#digger #wb #skydance #paramount #niccage #amazon #movies #tv

Welcome to the Pop Culture Brain podcast with Alex and Lara! In today's show, The Batman II just hit another major snag, I have great news for KPop Demon Hunters fans, and the creator of Mad Men is finally making another show.

https://www.popculturebrain.com/p/links00:00 Intro & The Social Reckoning premiere06:08 The Batman II delayed again11:22 Sorkin compliments Strong18:07 Kpop Demon Hunters 2 update22:12 Jennifer Lawrence going rom com 27:10 Matthew Weiner developing show with Eddie Murphy30:51 List game: Sorkin rankings35:46 Hot takes43:01 What we’re watching#thebatman2 #thebatmanpartII #movies #kpopdemonhunters #thesocialreckoning #aaronsorkin

Welcome to the Pop Culture Brain podcast with Alex and Lara! In today’s show we talk Taylor Swift and the VMAs, Ryan Murphy GLEE reboot update, Tom Holland finding his Ginger Rogers, and a new new Mary Poppins might be on the way.

https://www.popculturebrain.com/p/links00:00 Intro & Taylor Swift & VMAs07:36 Glee reboot update13:55 Are microdramas the future?23:03 Tom Holland finds his Ginger Rogers25:03 Mary Poppins TV show in the works 28:58 Highest grossing book adaptations 35:11 Pop culture hot takes39:51 What we’re watching

Welcome to the Pop Culture Brain podcast with Alex and Lara! In today's show, the Oscar movies you need to see this fall, is Tom Cruise about to flop with Digger, and Netflix just bought a 23-page short story for $1 million.

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#movies #tomcruise #digger #oscars #film

00:00 Intro & Harry Styles concert recap

03:40 Oscar movies preview

13:52 Is Digger going to flop?

22:03 Ted Lasso sparks interest in Negro Leagues Museum

25:00 Netflix buys short story for $1 million

27:38 Robert Pattinson’s highest grossing movies

32:27 Alex hot take

33:55 Lara hot take

35:29 What we watched

Welcome to the Pop Culture Brain Podcast! In this week's episode, Alex and Lara are discussing everything that happened at the 2026 Emmy Awards, TV's big award show, including the surprises, mishaps, winners, losers, and records.

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