Linda Holmes
Linda Holmes is a pop culture correspondent for NPR and the host of Pop Culture Happy Hour. She began her professional life as an attorney. In time, however, her affection for writing, popular culture, and the online universe eclipsed her legal ambitions. She shoved her law degree in the back of the closet, gave its living room space to DVD sets of The Wire, and never looked back.
Holmes was a writer and editor at Television Without Pity, where she recapped several hundred hours of programming — including both High School Musical movies, for which she did not receive hazard pay. Her first novel, Evvie Drake Starts Over, was published in the summer of 2019.
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The Oscar nominations embraced David Fincher's Mank, a movie about movies, which is no surprise. But if you want to pick your own favorites, this is the year to do it.
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The Hulu series Mrs. Americafollows the epic battle between Phyllis Schlafly on one side and a battery of 1970s feminist activists on the other.
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The streaming service "designed specifically for your phone" launches with 50 shows — and over 100 more on the way. Here are our highlights from the opening batch.
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Tim Gunn and Heidi Klum are back with another fashion TV show called Making the Cut on Amazon Prime Video. The show's prize? Getting your clothes sold on Amazon.
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A host of NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour takes a look at how the coronavirus is affecting cultural production — and offers some recommendations for home entertainment.
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Bong Joon-ho's film about families, class and keeping secrets won best picture. It's the first time a film in a language other than English has won the top prize.
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This year's best picture race doesn't have as clear a frontrunner as it sometimes has. But just as Moonlightcame through on a shocker of an evening in 2017, Parasitemight pull it off this year.
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The NBC afterlife comedy ended Thursday after four seasons, and it did so in a rich, emotionally satisfying, provocative fashion.
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From South Korean director Bong Joon-ho to Netflix's Martin Scorsese, from men who drive fast to men who are sad clowns, plenty of men cleaned up at this morning's Oscar nominations. Some women, too.
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Sam Mendes' war epic 1917won't be in theaters until Friday, but it's already won the big Golden Globe. Once Upon A Time In ... Hollywood, Fleabag, Succession and Tom Hanks also had big nights.
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The new movie Bombshell tells the story of former Fox News anchors Gretchen Carlson and Megyn Kelly accusing then-Fox CEO Roger Ailes of sexual harassment, which eventually led to his ouster.
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The movie musical Cats premieres this week. It adapts Andrew Lloyd Webber's stage musical of the same name, which is both divisive and still very popular.