Pshht Themes

Erin, Brennan, and Matt conclude their Prequel extravaganza with Revenge of the Sith. Finally, they got to the content we actually cared about: killing younglings! We also return to sassy Obi Wan quips, epic lightsaber duels, and villains with breathing issues. We side with Sam Jackson that Mace Windu still lives. Did you see a body cause we sure didn't. But we did see the first force choke,...

We're back this week with our second installment of our review of the Star Wars prequels, and amazingly Brennan survived his hit from the fan mobs! Ultimately, we cringe through the horrible relationship at the core of this film. Why Padmé? Why did you choose HIM?!?! It's cause he's tall isn't it. . . While Padmé gets to live out her "dream", the rest of us watch a ho...

It's Star Wars Week and Matt is back with us for Episode One: The Phantom Menace, as we attempt to wrap our minds arou- MISA CALLED JAR-JAR BINKS!!! AHHHHHHHHHHHH! In a galaxy far far away, our hosts are annoyed by half the characters in this universe and confused how the hell such good plot points got overpowered by. . . THAT. What we wanted: nature vs. nurture, where Leia got her personalit...

Welcome abroad the FCPV (From a Certain Point of View) 4520 Starship Pretender. Our crew is accosted by Thermians and compelled to review one of the greatest parody films ever made. From sly references to Jim Kirk's hubris to Sigourney Weaver climbing through airducts, again, this film is filled with all the easter eggs sci-fi fans love. We fight Gorignak the Rock Monster, we love Fred fallin...

A wall. A great and powerful wall. Barely 6 feet tall and yet no one can cross it except our two hosts. That's a little weird right? They find themselves in a world of magic, mystery, and Michelle Pfeiffer flaunting that bod! We follow Tristan traveling across the mystical kingdom of Stormhold with Yvaine (the star), Septimus (the seventh son), and Ricky Gervais. From the mind of Neil Gaiman,...

It's a tale as old as time: girl meets furry, gets stuck in a castle, develops Stockholm syndrome, and then becomes queen? Erin and Brennan are asking the real questions around Disney's 2017 remake of Beauty and the Beast: why hire a Scottish Ewan McGregor to play a French candelabra, why is the magic mirror so large but the mirror SO small, and is President Bartlet hidden in the West Wi...

Today really feels like a holiday for Brennan; he gets to spend multiple hours discussing his love of Stephanie Beatriz (AKA Detective Rosa Diaz, AKA Emily Goldfinch, AKA Mirabel Madrigal). Meanwhile, Erin is with Jorje doing the spackle in the crawlspace behind the walls. This week we discuss the Academy Award winning film Encanto, a story that Brennan loves and Erin learned to love. From TOTALLY...

Voulez Vous Coucher avec Moi, Ce Soir?  Need we say more? Our adorable and impressionable hosts return to Monmartre to relive a story from their youth; being poor and enjoying the Moulin Rouge... just  the outside (from a certain point of view). In this episode, we all fall in love with our heroes Ewan McGregor and Nicole Kidman, keep forgetting that they said it's all going to hell in a hand...

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...