{"id":654168,"date":"2026-05-20T09:58:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T09:58:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/654168\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T09:58:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T09:58:13","slug":"is-god-is-interrogates-misogyny-in-a-vivid-scathing-revenge-tale-pop-culture-happy-hour-npr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/654168\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Is God Is\u2019 interrogates misogyny in a vivid, scathing revenge tale : Pop Culture Happy Hour : NPR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1779271093_117_.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%2F76%2Ff1%2F34dc5c8a4d5d8df9b5d91ea63cc4%2Fb7fcb1d8-9c97-4cd8-bf42-740e92bac6cb.jpg\" class=\"img\" alt=\"Kara Young and Mallori Johnson in Is God Is.\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n                Kara Young and Mallori Johnson in Is God Is.<\/p>\n<p>                    Patti Perret\/Amazon MGM Studios<\/p>\n<p>                hide caption\n            <\/p>\n<p>            toggle caption<\/p>\n<p>        Patti Perret\/Amazon MGM Studios<\/p>\n<p>You should make sure to check out the new film Is God Is. It&#8217;s a kinetic movie about twin sisters (Kara Young and Mallori Johnson) who set out to kill their abusive dad (Sterling K. Brown). It&#8217;s an exciting road trip movie akin to Thelma &amp; Louise mashed up with the affecting themes of sisterhood in The Color Purple. The promising feature debut from acclaimed playwright Alesha Harris also features Janelle Mon\u00e1e, Vivica A. Fox and Erika Alexander.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/letterboxd.com\/nprpopculture\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Follow Pop Culture Happy Hour on Letterboxd at <\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/letterboxd.com\/nprpopculture\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">letterboxd.com\/nprpopculture<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.npr.org\/happy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Subscribe to Pop Culture Happy Hour Plus at plus.npr.org\/happyhour<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Amazon supports NPR and pays to distribute some of our content.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kara Young and Mallori Johnson in Is God Is. Patti Perret\/Amazon MGM Studios hide caption toggle caption Patti&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":654169,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[88,206],"class_list":["post-654168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654168","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=654168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654168\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/654169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=654168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=654168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=654168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}