Watch With Jen - S6: E25 - Psychics, Fate, & Free Will on Film with Lina Chern

About this episode

Lina Chern joins Jen to discuss the themes of psychics, fate, and free will in various films.

Lina Chern, the Mary Higgins Clark Award-winning author of Play the Fool , is here this week to discuss psychics solving crime, predestination and tarot onscreen, and the beauty of free will on film in Minority Report , The Dead Zone , The Gift , and Three Colors: Red . Her delightful sequel to Fool , Tricks of Fortune , was released over the summer, and we did a full-length video interview about the book, her writing, and our taste in pop culture, which you can see on the Poisoned Pen Bookstore YouTube Channel. Originally Posted on Patreon (12/20/25) here : https://www.patreon.com/posts/145545464 Shop Watch With Jen logo Merchandise in Logo Designer Kate Gabrielle's Threadless Shop Donate to the Pod via Ko-fi & PayPal Theme Music: Solo Acoustic Guitar by Jason Shaw, Free Music Archive

People in this episode

Host: Jen Johans

Guest: Lina Chern

Topics covered

• psychics
• fate
• free will
• film analysis
• crime
• tarot

Keywords

• psychics
• fate
• free will
• film
• tarot
• Minority Report
• The Dead Zone
• The Gift
• Three Colors: Red

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Poisoned Pen Bookstore, Patreon

Books & works: Play the Fool, Minority Report, The Dead Zone, The Gift, Three Colors: Red, Tricks of Fortune

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