Popcorn Parenting

James Cary talks to Nate Morgan Locke about Frozen II, one of the most successful movies in history. What's the secret sauce? Nate talks about the Monomyth, Jung, the Hero's Journey and Joseph Campbell, but also mentions The Little Mermaid and some other movies you might have heard of.
Listen to James and Nate talking with Barry Cooper about the Monomyth on the Cooper and Cary Have Words podcast episode A Swing and a Myth.
The Gospel According to Pixar is available from Amazon UK here.
If you watched Toy Story with your kids, how did it go? Email us at [email protected]
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We are talking about an overlooked gem - which James liked more than Nate - The Kid Who Would Be King, written and directed by Joe Cornish. It's a modern day King Arthur story with a brilliant battle in a school at the end. Plus we mention the Disney movie, The Sword in the Stone. Was this an 'Arthurian Misfire'?
If you watched some movies with your kids and talked about it afterwards with this stuff in mind, how did it go? Go on. Tell us via [email protected]

James and Nate talk about the oddly not scary Monsters Inc, world-building, wickedness and Wazowski. And they do the voice. But why can't we let monsters be monsters? And what do we say to our kids when they are scared?
The Gospel According to Pixar is available from Amazon UK here.
If you watched some movies with your kids and talked about it afterwards with this stuff in mind, how did it go? Go on. Tell us via [email protected]

After Turning Red and a bunch of films like it, what's going on with Pixar? And Nate FINALLY talks about Toy Story 4. Plus some wild speculation about Lightyear.
How Turning Red Doesn’t Follow Pixar’s Rules (Wired magazine)

Toy Story 4 Review in AV Club

If you watched some movies with your kids and talked about it afterwards with this stuff in mind, how did it go? Go on. Tell us via [email protected]

Nate and James are back and where else to start but the next - and, some say, final - Toy Story 3? (We don't talk about Toy Story 4. Well, we try not to.)
How to do you follow a movie which, as James always says, is the perfect movie? James was traumatised by Toy Story 3 - can Nate persuade James to show this movie to his kids. Conversation about parenting, plot and predestination, to infinity and beyond. And back. Yet again.
The Gospel According to Pixar is available from Amazon UK here.
If you watched some movies with your kids and talked about it afterwards with this stuff in mind, how did it go? Go on. Tell us via [email protected]