Podcast Part 3: The Part 3 Podcast

Sam and Will are taking the law into their own hands! On this episode, Podcast Part 3 visits the seedy underbelly of 80s cinema with Death Wish 3, a high-water mark for the infamous Cannon Films (if such a thing is possible). As Charles Bronson delivers his wooden brand of vigilante justice, the boys muse on the prolific schlock output of Golan and Globus, compare Chucks (Bronson v. Norris) and wo...

WE HAVE RISEN, BABY GIRL! Podcast Part 3 is back, just in time for the most improbable threequel of all: an R-rated third Deadpool, fully authorized by Disney and fully canon in the MCU! Join Sam, Will, Wade and, oh yeah, f-cking LOGAN in a blood-soaked tribute to the mid-00s era of superhero movies. It'll somehow make you nostalgic for the Fantastic Four, Elektra and even a Gambit movie that neve...

It's a bird! It's a plane! It's an all-new episode of Podcast Part 3: The Part 3 Podcast! And it's a DC Comics double feature as Will and Sam take on the very silly Superman III, aka Superman meets Richard Pryor. And if that's not enough, they're also talking about the deeply frustrating and problematic Superman Returns. While the Man of Steel takes on Brainiac (kind of), Bizarro (not really) and...

Together again! It's a new year and a new season of Podcast Part 3: The Part 3 Podcast, and we're taking the show to Broadway with 1984's The Muppets Take Manhattan, an honestly kind of bland entry in the Muppets pantheon... turns out you need a pretty strong story to make the Muppets work, and failing that you need a Charles Grodin or a Michael Caine to bring the gravitas. Sadly, like Jason Voorh...

Happy Halloween! It's the end of Spooky Threequel Month, but there's nothing new from Michael Myers to talk about, so instead we're renting a cabin at that little motel off the highway to talk about Psycho III. Oh yeah, they made sequels to Psycho, and they're surprisingly not bad! While Norman Bates deals with his mommy issues, Will and Sam discuss the perils of remaking and sequelizing Hitchcock...

Spooky Threequel Month continues as Will and Sam dare to f*ck with the Chuck by watching Child's Play 3, the unfortunate low point in the otherwise surprisingly consistent, long-running, never retconned Child's Play/Chucky franchise. While following cinema's greatest killer doll on yet another rampage, the boys discuss the 90s trope of military schools, sing the praises of Brad Dourif, and Will re...

Hope you came to the podcast hungry, 'cause Will and Sam are sitting down for a Texas-style barbecue with the Sawyer family in Leatherface: Texas Chainsaw Massacre III, a movie that sort of has Leatherface in it. Between courses, Will watches the original two TCMs for the first time, Sam unpacks the franchise's FOUR continuities, and they discuss whether or not this threequel lives up to the bugnu...

Spooky threequel season is back and it's time to go iceskating uphill because we're watching Blade: Trinity, the final nail in the Daywalker's cinematic coffin. You would think that Blade vs. Dracula (excuse me, "Drake") would be at the very least dumb fun, but like many mid-2000s superhero movies, it's got plenty of dumb but comes up woefully short on the fun. Backbeat by Kevin MacLeod ( https://...

He said he'd be back, but he didn't say how many times. It's a bulked-up triple dose of Arnold Schwarzeneggar as Will and Sam take on a franchise that keeps going back in time and changing its future. First it's 2003's Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, then 2015's Terminator: Genisys, and finally 2019's Terminator: Dark Fate. Three Judgment Days for the price of one! Backbeat by Kevin MacLeod (...

Meet the cop who can't be stopped... It's time for a delicious, nutritious helping of Hong Kong martial arts madness as Sam and Will take on Jackie Chan's Police Story 3, better known as Supercop! In between train fights and helicopter chases and lots of guys on fire, the boys look at Hollywood's many attempts to import martial arts stars, talk about Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever more than anyone has...

On this episode (should you choose to accept it), Will and Sam take on Mission: Impossible III, the sequel that revived Ethan Hunt and his stunt-heavy career in espionage. As they break down J.J. Abrams' best threequel, the boys track the twists and turns of Tom Cruise's career since the original Mission: Impossible, 27 years ago (jeez...). They also spend a lot of time reminiscing about disposabl...

Will and Sam ARE supposed to be here today, because it's time to talk about Kevin Smith's Clerks III, from the distant past of 2022! Things get meta as long-time Quick Stop employees Dante and Randal decide to make a movie about working in a convenience store, all while dealing with Dante's immense personal trauma, Randal's raging ego and yet another cinematic friendship steeped in toxic co-depend...

Case study: You blew up the entire planet and killed everyone in your second movie, but that movie made money so now you want to make a Part 3. What to do? Why, time travel to groovy 70s Los Angeles, just like Cornelius and Zira in Escape from the Planet of the Apes! Don't worry... there's only one fun shopping montage and then the movie gets right back to the Planet of the Apes bread and butter:...

It's time to travel back to the dark ages of 1993, as we tackle Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III, aka the one where they go back in time, aka the one they made so they could sell toys of the turtles dressed as samurai. And since this movie doesn't have much to offer, Will and Sam delve deeper into the Ninja Turtles as a multimedia phenomenon that endures to this day, despite the franchise-killing...

Our prediction for this episode? PAIN. But not really, because it's Rocky III and Rocky III rules. Join Will and Sam as they witness the iconic underdog story of the 70s makes its triumphant entry into the 80s, borne on the beefy, oiled up shoulders of Stallone, Weathers, Mr. T and Hulk Hogan. Along the way, they talk about how a simple sports movie somehow became a nine-chapter franchise, and how...

Yeah... I'm thinking we're back. Podcast Part 3 awakens from its long slumber, as Will and Sam crawl under the High Table to discuss the third adventure of Keanu Reeves' gun-toting, ass-kicking, dog-loving Baba Yaga, John Wick! Along the way, we'll dig into what makes this series such a wonderful action gumbo, and pick our dream cast members for future movies. Also, Will hates Ana de Armas for som...

Strap in for non-stop thrills as Sam and Will spend the holiday break with 1992's Lethal Weapon 3, aka "the one where Joe Pesci's sort of peeking over the other guys' shoulders on the poster." It's high-octane action as we unpack Riggs and Murtaugh's toxic codependency and ponder if maybe they'd be better off with other people. Also Will pronounces Murtaugh with a hard G, but Sam doesn't give him...

We're serving up a big bowl of Spaghetti Westerns this week on Podcast Part 3 as Will and Sam take on The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, the final installment in Sergio Leone's classic Dollars trilogy. While Clint Eastwood and his buddies quest for Civil War gold, the boys discuss the evolution of the Western genre, and for some reason talk about 1990s virtual reality for longer than you'd expect on...

It's the King of the Monsters versus the other King of the Monsters this week on Podcast Part 3, as Will and Sam talk about 1962's King Kong vs. Godzilla, the trend-setting, game-changing third installment in Toho's Godzilla franchise. While the big boys battle, the little boys discuss Godzilla's importance to Japanese pop culture, King Kong's importance to Godzilla, and how two rather serious bla...

Sorry, we got the date wrong. Evil dies tonight ! Just in time for Halloween, it's yet another, um, Halloween. Will and Sam watch Halloween Ends, the 3rd/4th/13th chapter in the endlessly retconned saga of Michael Myers. Can this final showdown between Michael and Laurie top all the other final showdowns between Michael and Laurie? Pull on your burned and beat-up Shatner mask and find out! Music:...

"It's the smiles that keep us going, don't you think...?" Spooky Threequel season continues as Will and Sam talk about 1990's The Exorcist III, a movie that is by design not a Part 3 and only barely a sequel to The Exorcist. But there's still plenty to talk about, including the brilliance of Brad Dourif and George C. Scott, the greatest jump scare in horror history, and how we maybe have Groucho M...

Call up the CD-throwing and cocktail-shaking Cenobites, 'cause it's time to party like it's 1992! Will and Sam unlock the oh-so-early-90s gorefest that is Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth, a movie that is incredibly dumb yet somehow still one of the better Hellraiser movies. It's a low bar. Music: Backbeat by Kevin MacLeod ( https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/ ) via Creative Commons license. ( https://...

October is here, but before we can get to the scary threequels, we're watching 2010's Toy Story 3... which honestly is a pretty intense experience. Fortunately, you've got a friend(s) in Will and Sam, as they muse over the movie's timely message about passing our toys (and beloved IP) on to new generations, as well as their own hopes and fears about parenthood and whether or not their kids will li...

This week, Podcast Part 3 is venturing out into the wasteland for a visit to Bartertown. It's time for 1985's Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome, George Miller's not-final-anymore entry in the absurdly influential post-apocalyptic Mad Max saga. Spoiler alert: Any movie stuck between The Road Warrior and Fury Road is gonna have a hard time, no matter how much Tina Turner it's got. Music: Backbeat by Kevin...

Remember those movies from the mid-2000s where Kate Beckinsale wore a lot of skintight leather and fought werewolves? (The correct answer is "sort of...?") Turns they made five of them and we're watching the third one, 2009's Underworld: Rise of the Lycans! It's a prequel movie, so no Kate Beckinsale, but instead we get Bill Nighy and Michael Sheen taking bites out of the scenery as we learn the o...