Is the pope going out at night like Batman?? And then Phil leads Skye and recurring guest Drew Dyck on a wild trip through recent kids movies and how the portrayal of “magic” and the supernatural has shifted from Christian, to modern, to post-modern. And sometimes back again.
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Episode 81: The Pope, Batman and Magic with Drew Dyck

Obviously, we found out about the Pope’s Batman routine because of the diligent work of the Pope-arazzi…
The Quakers were banned from colonial Massachusetts. The colonies lost their independent authority for capital punishment because of Massachusetts’ killing of Quakers…therefor it most likely (historically) was not a Quaker in ParaNorman (it must have been an intolerant Puritan).
Scott Derrockson indeed did make Hellraiser Inferno
2014 Deliver Us from Evil (post-production)
2013 Devil’s Knot (screenplay)
2012/I Sinister (written by)
2005 The Exorcism of Emily Rose (written by)
2004 Land of Plenty (story)
2000 Hellraiser: Inferno (Video) (written by)
2000 Urban Legends: Final Cut (written by)
1995 Love in the Ruins (Short)
I know I’m late to the podcast party and bingeing on a snow day, but Phil, talk about the Bible, talk about Disney, talk about film- but back off on Harry Potter. It’s just not your area. (Harry’s dad made fun of Voldemort? Ohmygoodness. Please just stop.)
Yeah yeah … I got that one wrong! (You weren’t the first to point it out. It’ll never happen again!)