{"id":731506,"date":"2026-06-12T08:53:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T08:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/731506\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T08:53:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T08:53:10","slug":"spielberg-revisits-aliens-and-alienation-in-disclosure-day-pop-culture-happy-hour-npr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/731506\/","title":{"rendered":"Spielberg revisits aliens and alienation in \u2018Disclosure Day\u2019 : Pop Culture Happy Hour : NPR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1781254390_669_.jpeg\" data-template=\"https:\/\/npr.brightspotcdn.com\/dims3\/default\/strip\/false\/crop\/3377x1900+0+0\/resize\/{width}\/quality\/{quality}\/format\/{format}\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F8f%2Fe3%2F90ff93ec4bd6bbc13d626190953f%2F4cea5fbc-6d0c-46fe-b899-d59681832845.jpg\" class=\"img\" alt=\"Emily Blunt in Disclosure Day. \" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n                Emily Blunt in Disclosure Day.<\/p>\n<p>                    Niko Tavernise\/Universal Studios<\/p>\n<p>                hide caption\n            <\/p>\n<p>            toggle caption<\/p>\n<p>        Niko Tavernise\/Universal Studios<\/p>\n<p>Stephen Spielberg brings aliens back to the big screen in Disclosure Day. But how does his new blockbuster compare to his alien classics like E.T. and Close Encounters of The Third Kind? Our heroes Emily Blunt and Josh O&#8217;Connor are compelled by something they don&#8217;t understand, and there are authority figures trying to keep a huge secret from the public.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>If you need more summer blockbusters, check out:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2025\/08\/28\/nx-s1-5518187\/jaws-is-still-stuck-in-our-teeth-50-years-later\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">&#8216;Jaws&#8217; is still stuck in our teeth, 50 years later<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2025\/06\/10\/1253920685\/the-summer-blockbusters-we-finally-watched\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The summer blockbusters we finally watched<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Connect with Pop Culture Happy Hour:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/letterboxd.com\/nprpopculture\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Letterboxd<\/a> \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pchh\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/newsletter\/pop-culture\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Our weekly newsletter<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.npr.org\/happy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Support Pop Culture Happy Hour+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Emily Blunt in Disclosure Day. Niko Tavernise\/Universal Studios hide caption toggle caption Niko Tavernise\/Universal Studios Stephen Spielberg brings&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":731507,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[64,63,134,344],"class_list":["post-731506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=731506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731506\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/731507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=731506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=731506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=731506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}