For this Friday’s Group Chat, culture critics Teri Hart, Eli Glasner and Rebecca Jennings join host Elamin Abdelmahmoud to get into the latest, and possibly final, instalment of Tom Cruise's 'Mission: Impossible' franchise.

Plus, American newspapers publish AI-generated summer reading lists with books that don't exist.

Elamin is joined by Refinery29 journalist Taryn Finley, who lays out what has happened at music mogul Sean Combs' trial in New York. Plus, film critics Jackson Weaver and Adrian Horton weigh in on A24’s new Tim Robinson and Paul Rudd buddy comedy Friendship, and how it subverts traditional depictions of male companionship on screen.

Elamin is joined by Jeevan Sangha and Joyita Sengupta to discuss the second season of the acclaimed dramedy series ‘Late Bloomer’ — and why season two of this look at the Sikh-Canadian millennial experience is being called its best season yet. Plus, Gloria Malone joins to talk about the release of ‘La Bellaza,’ the new album from Polaris Music Prize winner Lido Pimienta.

The world’s most prestigious film festival is on right now, and the headlines coming from Cannes include the muted response to the new Mission Impossible movie, and reaction to the new red carpet rules. Film critics Barry Hertz and Rad Simonpillai chat with Elamin Abdelmahmoud about the big stories at Cannes this year.

Plus, the standout stories from Eurovision with Karen Fricker, who talks about Austria's JJ stealing the win over fan-favourite Sweden, and Israel's second place finish.

The phrase 'girl power' was coined by Bikini Kill in the early 1990s, but its meaning was watered down later in the decade when angry radical women in music were followed by younger, less opinionated pop stars.

Sophie Gilbert dives into 1990s and 2000s pop culture in her new book, Girl on Girl: How Pop Culture Turned a Generation of Women Against Themselves, to figure out what happened.

Music writers Carl Wilson, Andrea Williams and Sarah Boesveld discuss Morgan Wallen's new album 'I'm The Problem,' Maren Morris’s pivot to pop on 'Dreamsicle' and Lana Del Rey’s honky-tonk makeover.

Romance author Emily Henry is back with one of the most anticipated novels of 2025, and it’s already topping bestseller lists. Elamin speaks with two culture critics, CT Jones and Alicia Foshay, about her latest book 'Great Big Beautiful Life,' and what makes her writing so popular. Plus, Indigenous Studies professor and Winnipeg Press columnist Niigaan James Sinclair discusses the Hudson Bay Company’s controversial decision to sell off its collection of Indigenous art and artifacts as part of its liquidation efforts.

With the Disney+ series ‘Andor’ coming to an end, Elamin is joined by critics Lyvie Scott and Radheyan Simonpillai to discuss the show and why it’s being called the best installment in the Star Wars franchise to date. Plus, culture writer Tabby Kibugi fell in love with K-pop, growing up in Kenya in the 2000s. She chats with Elamin about why two decades later, she decided to step away as a fan after seeing a continuous cycle of cultural appropriation and stereotyping of Black culture by K-pop artists.