Pshht Themes

In the future year of 2019, a grumpy man named Deckard tracks down humanoid creations called replicants. Four replicants break from their programming to find meaning in their short lives in the hellscape of Los Angeles, minus the Hollywood sign. This movie stars Erin's best friend Rutger Hauer, Edward James Olmos as the foxiest human this side of the solar system, and Harrison Ford being . ....

Two best friends find themselves in a high risk operation. The punishment: life in jail, the reward: seven million pounds. All that stands between them and their newfound wealth is the Irish government and their own conscience. Our heroes, friends since youth, bonded in the gauntlet of the pub, fight against all odds to bring everlasting glory to themselves and their homeland. They battle chicken...

Erin and Brennan go through drastic surgery; Erin to become the new head of the FBCIAMI (You'll get it if you listen) and Brennan gets stuck in some stupid B-rated maximum security prison with magnetic boots in the middle of the the Los Angeles coastline. Doves cross our screens in slow motion while we walk through the church of bad movies that somehow make us laugh *question mark*???  I mean...

Dust off your orange tanktop, plastic bald cap, and "thermal" bandages for a trip down the wormhole of the Fifth Element, aka Jean-Paul Gaultier gets to design the future in his image. Was Captain Planet right all along? WAS LOVE THE FIFTH ELEMENT?!?! It certainly seems that way with Bruce Willis falling instantly for the perfect Milla Jovovich who somehow managed to make an orange G-str...

This week, Erin swoons and Brennan rolls his eyes as we bask in the presence of the original heart-throb, Mr. Darcy. Once again, it's the time of the year to pay our respects to our dear mother by reviewing one of her favorite films, the romantic classic Pride and Prejudice. Erin gives one of the most comprehensive rundowns of one of the most difficult stories, and Brennan insists on mocking...

The trilogy is finally over and all this exposition feels like a dead dragon on our backs. The conclusion of The Hobbit ends less like a Battle of Five Armies and more like a long painful groan. Erin and Brennan magically fight of two orc armies, a swarm of battle bats, Earth-eaters, trolls, and wargs while successfully brokering a peace between men, elves, and dwarves with no idea how they did it...

Erin and Brennan are told that the journey through the Green Wood is fair sailing so long as they follow the path, but find that thanks to bad exposition, cringe romance, and overused tropes, they are not in the Green Wood, but IN MIRKWOOD AND THE PATH WAS LOST LONG AGO!!!! The Company of the Siblings trudges through the Desolation of Smaug with more than a few things to quarrel about. We discuss...

Deep in the Misty Mountains, Erin and Brennan find themselves on an Unexpected Journey between a Dame Edna and murderous Gollum. One has racks for torture and the other has nine teeth. Which will they choose? The ring of power, duh.  This week, Erin and Brennan leave their comfy Hobbit holes and wonder why the hell Peter Jackson and MGM couldn't just leave a classic the way is was? From painf...

Erin and Brennan get lost in the Spider's Web (episode reference) and must use their combined college degrees to find the right path out of the labyrinth! We're talking Shakespeare, samurai, Noh, MURDERS, and centipede PTSD. To wrap up Erin's birthday month, which was one week longer than Brennan's, we dive into the fantastic mind of Akira Kurosawa and his acclaimed retelling o...

This week we sip wine, eat grapes fresh off the Tuscan vines, and read poetry, but what's this? Strapping lads galloping over the ridge crests, chests bare, pants leather, and cocky smirks adorning their faces as they ride to our villa. Here, here they ride for our entertainment: Much Ado About Nothing, the Shakespeare comedy very much like all his other comedies but made all the better by DE...

Erin and Brennan murder EVERYONE to take over the kingdom. Children don't have a place in politics anyways, they might as well be locked in the Tower. This week we revel in the disgusting and delicious adaptation of Richard III by the inimitable Sir Ian McKellen as he returns to our hearts not as the wise white wizard, but as the brutish black boar. (Nice alliteration) Erin is appalled by Ric...

Item 1: he's hot. Item 2: he's hot. And item 3: he's Australian. Oh how does Erin love Heath Ledger, let me count the ways, even better, let me count the posters. Welcome back Void, we begin the New Year and our new season of Pshht Themes with a celebration of Erin. While Brennan subjected everyone to a show no one else has seen (we saw those episode stats), Erin has decided to grac...

After the conclusion of one of the most controversial seasons in recent memory, Erin and Brennan have a chat, a large shout, and an awkward whisper about Formula 1. Joining them this week is Brennan's college friend Nao, who has a thing or two to say about the events in Abu Dhabi. Let's be clear, this podcast is a love-fest for Lewis, sorry, SIR Lewis Hamilton while the most we want to s...

Erin and Brennan are ready to stert the herliday with the peeperz of the Spiderbers. If you can't tell, Brennan is really struggling with English as a Second Language, but he's doing his best this week. We take a leap off the tallest, or maybe the second tallest, building into Spiderman: Into the Spiderverse, possibly the greatest superhero movie ever made. We know we said the same thing...

Erin and Brennan hang out at a beautiful beach house in the Hamptons to discuss how much they love watching Jack Nicholson and Diane Keaton (Erin's queen) flirt with each other in Something's Gotta Give. But let's be real folks, how do you stand up Keanu Reeves? He's Dr. Hot Stuff for a reason for crying out loud! We learn even more about how Viagra works, we see more of Jack N...

In our final recording, the gang gets down to it with deep discussions about all the most important aspects of the Star Wars Rebels world: Kanan's hair, loopy Hera, Kanan and Hera being a thing, and when DID they do IT exactly? Sabine comes off as a Pikachu meme, cancel culture around the Mortis Gods is A-OK, and someone on the audio staff really had a fun time recording cat noises. Meanwhile...

We're back with Season Three of Star Wars Rebels, the Disney kids show that is quickly making us ask, "Is Ezra a dumb dumb and should kids REALLY be looking to him for life advice?" We meet up with our crew: Kanan, Ezra, Sabine, Zeb, Chopper, and Hera as they navigate their new roles in a growing galactic rebellion. But why did they leave a sith holocron with a pubescents teen, why...

Can you feel it? The pull? It calls to you. Another episode of Star Wars fandom... for children? You may say it's crazy, you many say that it's silly to take a Disney kids show about the Star Wars universe seriously, but Brennan has been preaching the gospel of Star Wars Rebels for years, and for his birthday podcast, by the Force, he's going to make Erin and Matt watch it too. And...

 Charge your electric chairs, grab a bottle of cyanide, and awake the dead, it's time for Halloween!! A.K.A. just a normal day in the Addams house. This week we are back to discuss the happiest scary movie of all times, the 1991 film The Addams Family. Erin and Brennan start on a sneeze but recover to talk a great deal about how much we love Morticia and Gomez, to heck with the rest of the fa...

Erin and Brennan head to the Santa Cruz.....I mean SANTA CARLA, Beach Boardwalk for a night of saxophone playing and mayhem. Join us as we review Joel Schumacher's both amazing and infuriating Lost Boys. Brennan chooses the sanity of the comic book shop and talks about how much he HATES this movie, while Erin hangs off the bottom of a bridge and professes her undying love for horrible vampire...

Have you ever been seduced by an alien from Transylvania? Have you ever witnessed the Time Warp and wanted to just jump to the left? Or take a step to the right? Put your hands on your hips? And bring your knees in tight?  Well, with a pelvic thrust, your hosts Erin, Brennan and Steve take a wrong turn to a castle in Ohio where they come across a VERY exciting party.  This week we take on the cult...

Lot 666, a chandelier in pieces. Those who have seen his face. . . or half his face, know that a long hallway with golden arms awaits, with a horse, and a boat to a man cave with candelabras that light themselves from the Paris sewers. And as two people who have now seen that face, we are definitely not drawing back in fear, if anything I think my sister is flushed and ready to make some "mus...

Erin and Brennan walk through the autumn leaves in New York and ask the age old question: can brothers and sisters be friends? The answer is no, due to egos and the need to be right all the time.  We discuss When Harry Met Sally, one of the most influential romantic comedies of all time. Erin brings up her past dating life of nihilistic boyfriends, while Brennan finally watches the film all the wa...

Ok, we're sorry, but we wanted to be sure that we got to say everything that we needed to get said. We needed the time to delve into the ultimate ultimate Batman v. Joker film ever made. We discuss that Rachael is an idiot, Gordon comes back from the dead which begs the question if he's a vampire (Looking at you Gary Oldman), and we get an English education we cannot unlearn: laughter wi...

Brace yourselves folks! The clowns are coming and they're armed with knives, pencils, and vegetable peelers! Ha! You laugh and scoff for now, but what if I were to say that those were all wielded by the Joker? Not laughing now, are you? Erin and Brennan are terrified by a crazed Heath Ledger on a murder spree, particularly when he shouts "LOOK AT ME!" We recount the heady days of mi...