Good Pop | Culture Club

Happy New Year! 2025 has finally come to an end and so once again the good pop crew takes a look back at some of their top pop from the past year as well as make some resolutions for the year to come for both themselves and the industry. Here's to another year of Good Pop! Follow our hosts: Marvin Yueh - @marvinyueh Jess Ju - @jessjutweets Hanh Nguyen - @hanhonymous Follow the show and engage with...

On this episode, the Good Pop Culture Club dives into Freakier Friday, the sequel to the 2003 Disney film adaptation starring Lindsay Lohan (a star on the rise at the time) and Jamie Lee Curtis (who's recent resurgence played a role in this film becoming a direct sequel. Directed by Nisha Ganatra and featuring Manny Jacinto as the romantic lead, does this classic coming of age tale of body switchi...

The Good Pop Culture Club is back at full strength this week! Hanh is back from her Asian vacation and not a moment too soon as we dive into Guillermo Del Toro's take on Mary Shelley's classic (and some may say the OG) science fiction gothic novel, Frankenstein! We were all excited when we learned that GDT, the master of beautifully unsettling visuals and sexy monsters, was taking a stab at this c...

For some inexplicable reason, we have a hankering for some Mississipi Masala, so on this episode we're checking out Mira Nair's 1991 romantic drama about the interracial love story between an African American man and an Indian-Ugandan American woman in rural Mississippi, starring a young, but still so compelling, Denzel Washington and Sarita Choudhury. What's Popping? - Just Makeup, Whiskerwood Fo...

On this episode, we return to check out the latest iteration of Netflix's Physical series following South Korea's search for the perfect physique, only this time with the addition of nationalism! Physical: Asia does away with the series' free for all battle royale format in favor of a team deathmatch, featuring 8 teams representing different (mostly) Asian countries. Will the injection of intercon...

Special guest host Ada Tseng of the Saturday School Podcast joins us once again for our October 2025 edition of "Do We Want This?" Good Pop's monthly Asian American entertainment news roundup. On this episode we check out some exciting new projects from some of our favorite Asian American actors and directors, including an unexpected Opera adaptation of one of our favorite films of the year, but a...

On this episode, we discuss the new Netflix coming-of-age dramedy Boots, following a closeted gay teen in 1990 who decides to follow his best friend in enlisting for the Marines, and his journey to take charge of his narrative and overcome his self-esteem issues through the trials and tribulations of the basic training experience. All during a time when being gay in the military was forbidden. Wha...

On this episode, we check out the latest film in the long running Karate Kid franchise of martial arts coming of age films, The Karate Kid Legends. This iteration stars Ben Wong as Li Fong, the very first Asian karate kid, who moves to New York and as Karate Kids do, runs afoul of the local karate bully who he then needs to defeat in a regional karate tournament. So is this modern update to a nost...

On this episode we check out the latest Pixar animated film Elio, about a boy obsessed with being abducted by aliens who gets his wish when aliens mistake him for the leader of earth and welcomes him to their intergalactic community, only to find himself needing to maintain his cover while trying to solve an incident with a space warlord. What's Popping? - The Life of a Showgirl, The Happy Song, N...

This week kind of got away from us so no new episode of Good Pop (we'll be back next week for sure)! But while we have you, we wanted to let you know about an exciting new fiction podcast coming to the Potluck Podcast Collective called Minor Legends. Be sure to subscribe on your favorite podcast player so you can be the first to know when the series premieres Monday October 6 with the first 3 epis...

On our July 2025 edition of "Do We Want This?" Good Pop's monthly Asian American entertainment news roundup, we take a look at the newest film projects from our top Asian American indie directors, discuss the latest adaptation news, and start the hype machine for next year's Coachella lineup (and more)! What's Popping? - Saving Face, In the Mood for Love, Good Boy, Sports, GBBO What's Popping? - F...

On this episode, we check out the new Hulu original Kdrama series Tempest, a political thriller that's as heavy on the intrigue as it is on the melodrama. The series follows a South Korean diplomat who runs for president after her politician husband was murdered, and the secret agent assigned to protect her from the same conspiracy that killed her husband. Also Korean American icon John Cho is als...

On this episode we check out The Paper, the new Peacock original series and the sequel to the now classic workplace sitcom The Office. This follow up again has us following a documentary crew as they record the trials and tribulations of a group of co-workers in a banal corporate workplace. This time we follow the journalists of the Toledo Truth Teller, a storied newspaper that has seen better day...

On our August 2025 edition of "Do We Want This?" Good Pop's monthly Asian American entertainment news roundup, the crew discusses the only Asian American entertainment news that matters, how much butt KPop Demon Hunters is kicking, Netflix's plans for their unexpectedly hot IP, and whether or not the right lessons will be learned from the whole thing. What's Popping? - Songs of the Summer, Alice i...

On this episode, the Good Pop crew checks out Butterfly, the new Daniel Dae Kim spy thriller / family drama streaming now on Amazon where DDK plays a former intelligence agent who emerges in South Korea 9 years after faking his death to rescue his daughter who has followed his footsteps in becoming a mercenary assassin. What's Popping? - & Juliet, KPop Demon Hunters Sing Along, The Wang's Vs t...

On this episode, the Good Pop crew welcomes the return of Hank, Peggy, and Bobby Hill in the long awaited revival of the animated comedy sitcom King of the Hill! Join us as the crew discusses our personal histories with the show as well as how the revival updates the characters for the modern age while keeping the soul and shenanigans of the original run. What's Popping? - Ruth Asawa: Retrospectiv...

On this episode, we are checking out Chief of War, the new Hawaiian Historical Fiction prestige television series created by and starring Jason Momoa as a Hawaiian war chief who is trying to live a peaceful life, but the war to unify the Hawaiian islands in the late 18th century draws him into a conflict that leads him to travel the world before coming back and rejoining the fight. On this week's...

On our July 2025 edition of "Do We Want This?" Good Pop's monthly Asian American entertainment news roundup, fellow Potluck host Ada Tseng fills in for Hanh as we take a look at some exciting upcoming Asian American films and TV series, as well as check out the recent Emmy nominations! What's Popping? - Subway Takes, The Gilded Age, Chef of China Follow our guest host Ada at @adatseng88 and check...

On this episode, we check out the latest comedy special from stand-up comedian Atsuko Okatsuka, Father. The crew discusses Atsuko's immaculate vibes as well as how we related to her observations about marriage, friendship, and family. What's Popping? - Fantastic Four: First Steps, Yankee Dawg You Die, Bingsu for Two Follow our hosts: Marvin Yueh - @marvinyueh Jess Ju - @jessjutweets Hanh Nguyen -...

On this episode we dive deep into the third season of the hot Korean death game series Squid Game! We're going full spoilercast this time so definitely proceed with caution if you haven't finished the new season yet. So does the show stick the landing? What's Popping? - Belly Laughs, Superman, Takopi's Original Sin Follow our hosts: Marvin Yueh - @marvinyueh Jess Ju - @jessjutweets Hanh Nguyen - @...

On this episode, we check out The Old Guard 2, the sequel to the 2020 action film about immortals who moonlight as mercenaries through the centuries, this time with additional Asian representation with Henry Golding joining the cast and the expansion of Veronica Ngo's character Quynh from the first film! But will they be able to elevate this surprise middle chapter of a presumed trilogy to good po...

On this episode of Good Pop, we check out some new Predator content with Predator: Killer of Killers, an anthology of Predator related animated short films about three warriors across four time periods who encounter one of these intergalactic big game hunters/a-holes. What's Popping? - Night of the Living Cat, The Phoenix Pencil Company Follow our hosts: Marvin Yueh - @marvinyueh Jess Ju - @jessju...

On this episode of Good Pop, the crew checks out the new Sony Animations feature film KPop Demon Hunters streaming now on Netflix. An action musical about a KPop girl group that moonlights as demon hunters facing their greatest foe, a rival boy band made up of hot demons. What's Popping? - Materialists, Squid Game S3, Finding Edna Lewis Follow our hosts: Marvin Yueh - @marvinyueh Jess Ju - @jessju...

On this episode, we check out the new South Korean animated Sci-Fi Romance film Lost in Starlight, which takes place in a Solarpunk vision of Seoul in the near future and follows the budding romance between an accomplished scientist who's trying to become an astronaut for a mission to Mars, and a former musician turned vintage electronics repairman. Can their love survive being separated by a sea...

On this episode, we finally discuss the movie event of the year, Ryan Coogler's horror/action/historical fiction film Sinners, about a Mississippi Delta community just trying to have a good time during prohibition, and the vampires (and racists) who seem dead set on ruining their night. There's so much to discuss that we're going full spoilercast on this one (so heads up if you haven't watched Sin...