Pop Culture Junkie®

Pop Culture Junkie

Pop Culture Junkie® has your weekly entertainment fix! The Pop Culture Junkies review and preview the best of what's happening now and what's coming up in movies, music, TV and more. Tune in every week to hear the best in what you love most: pop culture.

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20 episodes
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Thursday · 32 min
Two Junkies Chatting
From Olivia's Hawaiian adventure to Shauna's obsession with social media mascot Jimothy the raccoon, the Junkies cover it all in this pop culture-themed gabfest. Find out about Gwyneth Paltrow's perfect salad, the latest in romantasy and 'Bromantasy',...
Tuesday · 2 min
PCJ Pop #40
In PCJ Pops, the Pop Culture Junkies share their recommendations on what to experience in pop culture, today and yesterday. Olivia says if you’re high, or really need a good laugh, or both, you must watch Kung Pow: Enter the Fist. It’s a 2002 movie...
July 28 · 3 min
PCJ Pop #39
In PCJ Pops, the Pop Culture Junkies share their recommendations on what to experience in pop culture, today and yesterday. Shauna suggests you ignore the haters and find a theater that’s still showing 2026’s Supergirl, starring Milly Alcock as the...
July 23 · 37 min
The Best Is Yet to Come: 2026 Movie Previews
So far in 2026, the big-budget superhero flick Supergirl tanked while quirky indie projects like Backrooms and Obsessionbecame mega-hits. Who knows what's going to be trending over the remainder of 2026? The Pop Culture Junkies know! The second half...
July 21 · 2 min
PCJ Pop #38
In PCJ Pops, the Pop Culture Junkies share their recommendations on what to experience in pop culture, today and yesterday. Olivia ugly-cried at the 2026 Netflix romantic comedy Voicemails for Isabelle. Starring Zoey Deutch and Nick Robinson as two...
July 14 · 3 min
PCJ Pop #37
In PCJ Pops, the Pop Culture Junkies share their recommendations on what to experience in pop culture, today and yesterday. Shauna suggests you check out 2008’s found-footage zombie flick Quarantine, starring Jennifer Carpenter and Jay Hernandez, on...
July 9 · 36 min
The Rise of Skinny Culture (Again)
Olivia and Shauna recount their weekend in San Francisco enjoying the best that Pride Month has to offer there: Drag acts, wig snatching contests, music, brunch - all the good stuff. Then they get serious and talk about a topic that some could find...
July 7 · 2 min
PCJ Pop #36
In PCJ Pops, the Pop Culture Junkies share their recommendations on what to experience in pop culture, today and yesterday. Olivia binged the hilarious 2014 HBO comedy Silicon Valley, created by Mike Judge and starring Thomas Middleditch, Martin...
June 30 · 2 min
PCJ Pop #35
In PCJ Pops, the Pop Culture Junkies share their recommendations on what to experience in pop culture, today and yesterday. Shauna rented 2025’s dystopian drama The Long Walk, based on the Richard Bachman (aka Stephen King) novel. Starring Mark...
June 25 · 59 min
Womansploitation: Violence Against Women as Entertainment – Live at Phoenix Fan Fusion
Live from Phoenix Fan Fusion, Olivia and Shauna head a panel to discuss a serious topic with their characteristic dark humor and feminist sass. Womansploitation - using violence against women as entertainment - is found in movies, in television shows,...
June 23 · 2 min
PCJ Pop #34
In PCJ Pops, the Pop Culture Junkies share their recommendations on what to experience in pop culture, today and yesterday. Olivia recommends the riveting Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke, a new book that offers a science-fictional look at today’s...
June 16 · 3 min
PCJ Pop #33
In PCJ Pops, the Pop Culture Junkies share their recommendations on what to experience in pop culture, today and yesterday. Shauna has finally taken Olivia’s advice and read the Crescent City book series from A Court of Thorns and Roses author Sarah...
June 11 · 1 hr 2 min
A.I., Robots and Revolution
Shauna and Olivia are in the studio together live and in person, so naturally this episode revolves around artificial life forms. Robots and Artificial Intelligence are hot topics right now, as so-called AI actresses threaten to take over Hollywood,...
June 9 · 4 min
PCJ Pop #32
In PCJ Pops, the Pop Culture Junkies share their recommendations on what to experience in pop culture, today and yesterday. Olivia recently watched I, Robot, the 2004 film starring Will Smith as a “technophobic” cop investigating robot crime in the...
June 2 · 4 min
PCJ Pop #31
In PCJ Pops, the Pop Culture Junkies share their recommendations on what to experience in pop culture, today and yesterday. Shauna went all the way back to 1997 to watch the anime series Berserk. Based on a long-running manga, Berserk the anime...
May 28 · 47 min
Movie Exchange #2: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Shauna and Olivia want to share their favorite movies with each other, and you! This time Olivia shares one of her favorite movies, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Directed by Michel Gondry from a screenplay he wrote with Charlie Kaufman and...
May 26 · 2 min
PCJ Pop #30
In PCJ Pops, the Pop Culture Junkies share their recommendations on what to experience in pop culture, today and yesterday. Olivia is completely obsessed with the series Peaky Blinders. Set in 1919 Birmingham, England, Peaky Blinders stars Cillian...
May 19 · 2 min
PCJ Pop #29
In PCJ Pops, the Pop Culture Junkies share their recommendations on what to experience in pop culture, today and yesterday. Shauna finally watched the 1991 classic Oscar-winning psychological horror film Silence of the Lambs with Sir Anthony Hopkins...
May 14 · 51 min
Best and Worst: Pop Culture Witches
This week, Shauna and Olivia get a little witchy and expose the history of witches in pop culture. Going back as far as Shakespeare's trio of witchy prognosticators in Macbeth through the domesticated witches of the mid 1900s, today's heroic and/or...
May 12 · 3 min
PCJ Pop #28
In PCJ Pops, the Pop Culture Junkies share their recommendations on what to experience in pop culture, today and yesterday. Olivia’s pick is The Truman Show from 1998. Starring Jim Carrey and Laura Linney, The Truman Show and its focus on the blurred...