{"id":198974,"date":"2025-10-03T07:13:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T07:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/198974\/"},"modified":"2025-10-03T07:13:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T07:13:07","slug":"pop-culture-happy-hour-npr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/198974\/","title":{"rendered":"Pop Culture Happy Hour : NPR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1759475587_333_\" data-template=\"https:\/\/npr.brightspotcdn.com\/dims3\/default\/strip\/false\/crop\/5351x3010+0+0\/resize\/{width}\/quality\/{quality}\/format\/{format}\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F7b%2F6d%2F81d669e341579ea6e2c6009b4044%2F14702957-52a0-4e24-9bfc-1521b8b9a6a8.jpg\" class=\"img\" alt=\"Dwayne Johnson in The Smashing Machine.\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n                Dwayne Johnson in The Smashing Machine.<\/p>\n<p>                    Eric Zachanowich\/A24<\/p>\n<p>                hide caption\n            <\/p>\n<p>            toggle caption<\/p>\n<p>        Eric Zachanowich\/A24<\/p>\n<p>Dwayne &#8220;The Rock&#8221; Johnson and Emily Blunt star in the new sports biopic The Smashing Machine. Johnson plays Mark Kerr, a UFC champion who is reeling from his first major loss in the ring and confronting an addiction to painkillers. Directed by Benny Safdie (Uncut Gems), the wrestling drama pulls out all the classic moves in the awards season playbook. We can smell what The Rock is cooking \u2013 but is it a hearty meal?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/letterboxd.com\/nprpopculture\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Follow Pop Culture Happy Hour on Letterboxd at letterboxd.com\/nprpopculture<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dwayne Johnson in The Smashing Machine. Eric Zachanowich\/A24 hide caption toggle caption Eric Zachanowich\/A24 Dwayne &#8220;The Rock&#8221; Johnson&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":198975,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[88,92],"class_list":{"0":"post-198974","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198974\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}