Zen Pop Parenting

Mike Flanagan’s Midnight Mass just turned 5! To celebrate, we’re replaying our 2021 conversation about our favorite Mike Flanagan show with Camryn and Sky, who were just 16 and 14 when we recorded it. The dialogue alone gives us so much to talk about, and the questions about faith, fear, grief, and stay with you long after it ends. We hope you’ve seen it by now, but if you ha...

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We celebrate Halloween month on Zen Pop with the original Poltergeist from 1982. Cathy and Todd revisit the movie that made us afraid of television static, bedroom closets, and that terrifying clown doll, along with the behind-the-scenes stories that fueled its “curse” reputation. JoBeth Williams and Craig T. Nelson play Diane and Steve Freeling, whose suburban family life tu...

Cops and Robbers month continues with The Dark Knight. We rewatched Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight and know for sure that Heath Ledger earned that posthumous Best Supporting Actor Oscar, and that we got to see a lot of Chicago. Christian Bale plays Bruce Wayne/Batman, who teams up with Gary Oldman's Lt. Jim Gordon and Aaron Eckhart’s DA Harvey Dent to take down the mob, ...