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    What's Making Us Happy: A guide to your weekend viewing and reading

    Each week, Pop Culture Happy Hour guests and hosts share what's bringing them joy. This week: Riddle of Fire, The People's Joker, Palm Royale and Alfred Hitchcock Storyboards.
    by Monica Castillo Apr 12, 2024 3 minutes
    Kristen Wiig in <em>Palm Royale </em>on Apple TV+.

    This week, we saw Captain America again, the relationship of the Golden Bachelor went the way of so many others before it, and reboot fever continued to burn so hot that you could not possibly avoid catching it.

    Here's what NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour crew was paying attention to — and what you should check out this weekend.

    Riddle of Fire

    premiered at Cannes last year. It's a really scrappy neo-fairy tale set in Wyoming. These three kids just want to play video games, but their mom gives them a quest to bake a can they play their video games. So this launches an epic little adventure — and it's so charming. It's shot on 16mm — it looks like nothing else out there right now. I'm fully in love with this movie, and I hope other people will get the chance to check it out.

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