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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 Roberts' weird accent (there has to be one in every Irish movie). This film is about flipping the script on the British Empire and removing Charles Dance way faster than we were expecting. All silliness aside now, this is a film about the birth of the modern terrorist textbook and the man who would lay down arms for the Irish Republic.

This podcast contains fewer bad Irish accents from our hosts than we thought.

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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, and more information about Sumo than we thought we'd get from a geisha movie. Really, this is a podcast of how much we love Kyoto, Japan, and John Freakin' Williams. 

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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 perils of steamrollers. Beware of slow and avoidable deaths!

Greetings Void! We're back with another episode this week where we discuss the underwhelming historical film, The Eagle (not to be confused with the gay bar). Starring Channing Tatum and Jamie Bell, two of the best dancers, and yet there is no dancing! Just Romans, doing Roman things very far away from Rome. We have pretty shots, lots of American accents, and whole bunch of Gaelic, Scottish Gaelic to be specific (please don't cancel us). Erin is confused by the buddy-cop dynamic that our heroes suddenly possess, and Brennan admits this film is really only good for background noise while cooking or cleaning. Is it bad? Debatable. Is it good? Definitely not. Do we need to get that eagle? WE MUST RETREIVE THE EAGLE!!!!!!!!! FOR ROME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Two episodes in two days?!?! Yup, that's no fluke! We had quick discussion of F1, and now it's back to DRAGONS and TEENS and CAT DRAGONS. Are they frightening? No! They're durpy little cuttle-muffins that have wings! We deal with non-historical vikings trying to be butch while our main hero, Hiccup, just wants a friend who will accept him, and a hawt girlfriend. Let's be real Void, of course we had an intense conversation about the film score and how it makes us FEEL. But also: The Prince of Egypt, Last of the Mohicans, Scottish vikings, Tomorrow Never Dies (stealth boat), Jupiter Ascending, and SO much more. Come for us talking about the movie, stay for Erin snorting while laughing (just like mom). 

Greetings Void! I mean, VROOM VROOM!! We break our usual schedule of movie discussions to dive into the breaking news that Sir Lewis Hamilton will leave Mercedes-AMG Petronas F1 Team following the conclusion of the 2024 season. I know, shocking right? What's more, he will be joining Charles Leclerc at Ferrari! Erin and I get hot and bothered just thinking of that sexy lineup. So here we have just the beginning of the contract carousel this season, only time will tell what else will transpire.

Welcome Void, to the closing ceremony of Erin's Month of Gangster Flicks, brought to you by Hot Guys Doing Bad Things INC. This week we bring back Denzel Washington as the kingpin of Harlem, Russel Crowe as the straight shooting detective, and Chiwetel Ejiofor as maybe Fredo maybe not Fredo, either way he's not smart. You know this story is going to be wild when a coat brings down a drug empire and Buffalo Bill is the good cop. This is a story of the modern American dream: building a corporation that tramples its customers for profits. But this time with ILLEGAL drugs!

Erin and Brennan stand outside the hospital with gun fingers this week as they try to save Marlon Brando from crooked cops. We learn all the lessons: leave gun/take cannoli, do you renounce Satan/bang bang! (I'll take that as a no), and the days of the week (Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Wednesday...). We have Santino (the fighter), Fredo (the weak link, or is he just kind in a world of toxic masculinity?), and Michael (the cold genius assassin). I wonder which one will take over the family business? Along the way, we have the horse! Not just any horse, THE horse. One horse to scare them all! For the first time ever, Erin doesn't talk about how hawt some guy is, even though she really wants everyone to know how hawt young Al Pacino is. 

And remember, don't take sides against the family. Ever.

This week, Erin and Brennan become true Americans by standing on the side boards of cars and shooting Tommy guns at coppers! "Public Enemies," a tale of the famed bank robber, John Dillinger, and his game against the newly formed FBI (specifically against Agent Melvin Purvis). We have SOME horses, but also Erin does a hard (and crucially important) background check on the real lives of gangsters, and Brennan silently contemplates the career of Channing Tatum. He will be back, Void, I promise. We highlight Johnny Depp's acting skills as well as how much we hate J. Edgar Hoover, despite the actor who plays him (I AM A GOLDEN GOD). In the end, we can all agree that we HATE Baby Face Nelson. 

Welcome to 2024, Void! It's a new year, and that means it's Erin's birthday, and as we all know, that entails gangs and blood! This week we discuss Martin Scorsese's 2002 film, "Gangs of New York." This film has everything: politics, firefighter duels, immigration, slums, and SOME horses. Brennan gets cursed by a doll, Cameron Diaz is the Keanu Reeves of this movie, and Daniel Day-Lewis scares the DAYLIGHTS out of us with his one eye (see what we did there?)  Erin and Brennan dust off their nerdy skills (did we even allow enough time for dust to settle?) and breakdown Civil War American history as it is depicted in this film. Also we get 5 minutes of Liam Neeson, YAY!!