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Hello, Void! We're back this week feeling fresh and wriggling as a new-caught fish. Or maybe a child throwing a tantrum. We debate the effects of magic in Tolkein's world, where the ent-wives have gone, and Gollum/Smeagol's ring motivations. We learn even more about Middle Earth as we venture into the wilds: oliphaunts are elephants with more tusks, dwarf women have beards, and ther...

The world has changed - Erin and Brennan can "podcast" now, they've had time to think on what to say next, and Brennan has FINALLY read the books. This means we spent 4 hours talking about everything, anything, and all the stuff you didn't need to know. Erin salutes Boromir for his heroism, Brennan is reading the Silmarilion and knows more than he should, and there is the attac...

Voila! Erin and Brennan violently clash with this week's vexing political tragedy and turn to a vaudevillian veteran in a Guy Fox mask for solutions for voracity. Blood, bombs, and Shakespeare with a verbose soundtrack to boot! We have John Hurt, Stephen Fry, Natalie Portman, Stephen Rea, and Hugo Weaving all being the epic actors that they are in this 1984 inspired story of "V" van...

Happy Samhain, Void! While Erin is reveling on the other side of the world, I'm in my apartment eating chocolates and making yummy sounds. Again, there is no new episode this week, but fret not, for we bring you one of our favorite films EVER! Sorry for just quoting the whole thing, but if you haven't seen it, we can think of nothing better for Halloween. From both of us, Happy Halloween...

Hi. Void. How are you.       I was going for emotionless blah, and I think I did it! Anyways, we are still on break this week, but we bring you one of our favorite recordings about vampires, Twilight. Be prepared for bad dialog and our hosts mocking them at every turn. Enjoy!

Hello Void! This week we're not uploading a new episode, instead we're looking back at the romance story of an obsessive, creepy old guy using magic tricks to seduce an underage singer in the Paris opera. Awwwww, how lovely. Or gross. We'll leave that to you to decide. Happy Spooky Season!!!

Happy spooky season! After 40 years, we are resurrecting Ghostbusters, but not the original, nor all the sequels and remakes that followed, but Afterlife, the sequel not-sequel remake-yet-not-remake sequel. We have a kid named Podcast, marshmallows with sado-masochistic tendencies, and Paul Rudd with a flower in his hair. At least we have confirmation that Gozer the Gozerian has ALWAYS had a flatt...

This week Erin and Brennan try their hands at solving the Zodiac murders and they totally nail it. How did it take so long for those pigs to figure it out? It was Lee, duh! Or Rick, maybe Vaughn, but probably Paul Avery. What a @&$#. Meanwhile, Erin tries to make a point by singing "In Your Eyes" by Peter Gabriel while a baby gets thrown out a window. It's fun! At the same time,...

Welcome, Void to our conclusion of the Bourne trilogy (we are NOT counting those other two). This week we scratch our brains about how and when this film fits in with the previous one, CCTV finally gets its day and it's 98% useless, and the shakiest of cameras. It takes special skill to get motion sickness from camera work. Look at what they make you give! Despite some confusion, we get the a...

This week, we continue to run from the CIA in the second installment of the Bourne trilogy, The Bourne Supremacy. Matt Damon is still hot in this movie, but now he must contend with Karl Urban, aka Master of the Riddermark and leader of the Rohirrim (aka hot with short black hair and long blond hair). But that's beside the point, sadly, we return to the world of espionage in the distant land...

Erin and Brennan are back from summer vacation and are ready to take down CIA black ops teams WITH A BALLPOINT PEN!!! Contrary to other spy films, we're looking at you James Bond and Mission Impossible, the Bourne movies tell the story of believable assassins. Do they have secret gadgets? Nope, just their minds and a lot of cash. We have Brian Cox being evil (as usual), Clive Owen dying (as u...

This week Erin and Brennan ride a horse that takes FOREVER to get to the Eiffel Tower only to turn around. I mean come on, the Eiffel Tower was the center of ALL the festivities and the cauldron was on the other side of the city?!?!?! We celebrate the 2024 Olympics in all of its much deserved glory, and it's much deserved. . . je ne sais quoi? We fell in love with a new generation of athletes...

Did you ask for this? Probably not, but we're back from our brief hiatus to revisit some of our earliest films/recordings and see if anything has changed. We learned new things, like Sean Bean's eyes change color, the original screenplay was 600 PAGES, and Kalique had a fetish for getting wrinkles! We're still confused how this got made, we still don't understand most of what t...

Здравствуйте!  We started this podcast on task and ready for a highly coordinated TED talk from our resident Russian History/Lit dweeb, Erin. But by the end, we got Jennifer Coolidge impersonations, LE PONT ALEXANDRE TROIS!, a royal palace bereft of occupants but no one stole the silverware (or the gold for that matter), and arguing that no one cares about the ending's accuracy, the writers d...

This week Erin and Brennan are picked up in a time machine captained by Walter Cronkite! Is it a time machine or a spaceship? Or a spaceship time machine?? Whatever it is, it's filled with BRAAAAINNNN GRAAAAAIIIINNN!!!!! A cereal that makes your brain grow, like, a lot! We meet Rex, Elsa, Woog, and Dweeb, dinosaurs (and a pterosaur) that are brought to the 90's to fulfill the wishes of c...

This week Erin and Brennan visit the library to continue their trek of rewatching the films that gave them trauma as children. In "the Pagemaster" we run into Patrick Stewart, Whoopi Goldberg, and Frank Welker as Adventure, Fantasy, and Horror. Not to be confused with the sections they also represent. Let's be real, Erin is a book nerd and she loves this, apart from all the times sh...

Hello, Void!! This week we venture into the Bush of Australia where nothing is as it seems. The Murder Birds (Cassowaries) are silly and kind, Byron Bay is a "big city," and the Aussies are from New Jersey. People of color? No! But they definitely appropriated their art. Tone Loc wants to eat us, Tim Curry wants to seduce us, and Robin Williams really wants us to kill that human. Despite...

Erin, Brennan, and Matt go to reclaim Mandalore, and while bathing in the Living Waters, wonder why there are so many giant monsters that just show up out of nowhere. . . . We have cute puppets, seaweed pirates, and Mandalorian castles, finally! But through it all, can we be clear that the ancient fall of Mandalore was like, 15 years ago? That's not ancient, people. Let's be real, the hi...

Welcome to our podcast this week about "The Princess Diaries." We discuss the inaccurate representation of San Francisco geography, FMK the boys, and Pier 39 is NOT in Marin! When we're not fuming about cable cars on streets that don't have cables to car, how not to drive a stick shift on the hills of San Francisco, or why driving to the Embarcadero does NOT take you to Pacific...

Hello, Void! We're back with another timely episode, this week discussing "A League of Their Own." We're talking women's rightful place in the pantheon of athletics, the dignity of athletes from all backgrounds (we're looking at you Nike and Uncle Phil), and the transformative power of sports. But to be fair, we're caught in the glow of Geena Davis, Madonna, and...

This week, Erin and Brennan watch "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" in efforts to become Knights of the Round Table, We dance whene'er we're able We do routines and chorus scenes With footwork impeccable We dine well here in Camelot We eat ham and jam and spam a lot!! When they're not being silly, they delve into the origins and political implications of the Arthurian Lege...

Greetings, Void! We're here this week to celebrate the Padre, and to do so we are watching Seabiscuit. We talk about history, stock markets, prohibition, and to spice things up, sexy "Iceman" references. Erin and Brennan explore their emotions with this heartwarming film of the ultimate underdog in the most trying time in American history. This movie has the Dude, Spiderman, the bes...

Hiya, Void! Happy St. Paddy's Day! Draw yourself a Guinness, perhaps even a drop of the ol' bottle, and let's dive into Irish history and the beginning of the Republic of Ireland 700 years too late. Is this story complicated, bloody, and silly? Yes. We discuss Liam Neeson being really tall yet sneaky, Alan Rickman as the devious politician ('cause of course he is), and Julia Ro...

いらっしゃいませ！ We're back, Void! This week we're pleased to bring you the beautiful film, Memoirs of a Geisha. We discuss the controversies, the music, and the culture of geisha. Erin practices her Japanese while we can hear Brennan explode internally with excitement. HE'S STUDIED SO HARD FOR THIS MOMENT! We got Gong Li as the powerhouse of the film, California starring as Japan...

Did that title work a little too well?         Yup.  This week, our hosts are back to praise the Mother Ship for her birthday by reviewing "A Fish Called Wanda." Brennan somehow knows more about the CIA than Otto does, Erin loves Jamie Lee Curtis' dress, and both of them are stans for a Python reunion in any form. We are also graced with Stephen Fry for a moment, while learning the...