Glen Weldon

Glen Weldon was with NPR's Nina Gregory when she asked some of the stars of the new film on the red carpet a standard question in a non-standard way.

In which a middle-aged guy who doesn't know a Charizard from a Jigglypuff tries out the just-released "augmented reality" game Pokemon GO, and promptly creeps out his neighbors.

Meet Riri Williams, a teenage genius who will be stepping into the Iron Man suit following the events of Marvel Comics' latest crossover event.

Actress Noel Neill, who played Lois Lane on TV's The Adventures of Superman from 1953 to 1958, died over the weekend. Her take on Lois was unique and hugely influential.

To help you prepare for this weekend's new Tarzan film, we offer this primer on the many lives of the world's very first Vine celebrity.

The sixth season of HBO's Game of Thrones showed a real evolution in the way the show portrays women and in the season finale, several female characters ascended to power. NPR's Kelly McEvers talks to Glen Weldon from NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour and Greta Johnsen, host of the Nerdette podcast, about the show.

Last night on HBO, the best-laid plans of Cersei Lannister (Game of Thrones) and Selina Meyer (Veep) came to two very different but equally explosive ends.

Netflix's new Voltron: Legendary Defender, a reboot of the beloved '80s anime series, features producers and writers from Avatar: The Last Airbender and Legend of Korra. It shows.

Glen Weldon talks to Adam Goldman, the star and co-creator of the web series The Outs, about what sets the comedy apart. And why queer people are superheroes.

At first, the sadistic cruelty of a Game of Thrones villain made him hated. But scene after scene of monotonous violence made him something even worse: dull.

Watch as members of the "vertical dance troupe" BANDALOOP suspend themselves against the side of a Boston office building and perform a routine that's as terrifying as it is mesmerizing.

DC Comics has relaunched its line of superhero titles again in a bid to recapture "hope and optimism." This time, heroes fight a villain who represents the cynical tone comics adopted in the 1980s.

To prepare for tonight's return of game show To Tell the Truth, we look back at what made the classic version so memorable, and ask if it's even possible to recapture its magic today.

The shadow of a mass shooting in Orlando cast a pall over the 70th Annual Tony Awards broadcast, but host James Corden offered a spirited paean to "every Broadway would-be."

The Americans, which concluded its fourth season last night, has allowed daughter Paige to distinguish herself from other TV teens thanks to its high stakes and ever-shifting empathies.

Sacha Baron Cohen will reportedly star in an upcoming big screen adaption of comic strip character Mandrake the Magician, considered by some the first superhero.

Glen Weldon runs down all 50 of the books on offer for Free Comic Book Day and explains how you can get your share of the goods.

Yesterday the Library of Congress named graphic novelist Gene Luen Yang as its fifth National Ambassador for Young People's Literature. Here's why that matters.

Yang joins the handful of notable, and notably prolific, authors of books for children and young adults who have served two-year terms since the Ambassadorship was ...

The End Of The Tour is an odd little film, made more so by the fact that it's being rolled out at the height of summer, a span of the cinematic year not generally associated with talky two-handers about writers, writing and the wages of literary fame.

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Fantastic Four came out last weekend, only to encounter less-than-stellar reviews and box office. Our own Chris Klimek saw it for NPR.org and summed up its squandered potential with his usual nerd-cred eloquence, so I sat down with him for Pop Culture ...