Podcast Part 3: The Part 3 Podcast

It's time for a look at the Alien saga's gloomiest and most divisive chapter, 1992's Alien 3, a movie that boldly doesn't care if you liked the ending of Aliens. Spend an hour with Sam and Will as they break down what works (Sigourney Weaver, David Fincher) and what doesn't (pretty much everything else). Then stick around as they talk about other random stuff for like 15 minutes! (Music: Backbeat...

It's a triple feature of Part 3s this week, as Sam and Will face off against the galaxy's deadliest hunter not once, not twice, but THREE times as the Predator franchise tries time and again to restart itself, first with 2004's Alien vs. Predator, then with 2010's Predators and finally with 2018's The Predator. At least Predator 2 isn't ashamed to admit it's a sequel to something. Music: Backbeat...

Summer's here, and Podcast Part 3 is back... coming to you live from SeaWorld! Hope you like endless B-roll of waterskiiers and a lot of out-of-focus camera work, because Sam and Will watched Jaws 3-D, starring Dennis Quaid, Louis Gossett, Jr., Lea Thompson, Manimal, the mom from My So-Called Life, and the most rigid and unrealistic fiberglass shark since... well, Jaws 2. "Suggested by the novel J...

Look what we have made... it's the season finale of Podcast Part 3, and we're wrapping up our Palpatine trilogy with 2019's The Rise of Skywalker! Will and Sam fire up their force dyad to puzzle over the many strange decisions that led to this messy end to the Skywalker Saga. Along the way, Sam nitpicks about lightsabers, Will bangs the table in frustration a lot, and together they have a friendly...

This week, we move forward with Star Wars but also back in time?! We've done Episode VI, so logically Episode III should be next, right?. If you're confused, then congratulations... you're in the prequel trilogy, and we're watching 2005's Revenge of the Sith! Thrill as Palpatine transitions from normal-face Chancellor to monster-face Emperor, while Sam and Will break down Star Wars' "quiet years"...

It is unavoidable. It is our destiny. Welcome to the three-part season finale of Podcast Part 3! It's time for an Emperor Palpatine triple feature, starting this week with 1983's Return of the Jedi... a film from a simpler time, when Star Wars was just three movies, two Ewok Adventures and one Holiday Special. And we liked it that way, dammit. Get off our lawn. Music: Backbeat by Kevin MacLeod ( h...

Strap on your chainsaw and load up your boomstick, 'cause this week Will and Sam are headed to the Middle Ages to face down 1993's Army of Darkness! After the horror of The Evil Dead and the horror comedy of Evil Dead II, Sam Raimi's third rumination on the dark powers of the Necronomicon is a horror comedy fantasy time travel masterpiece and one of the best and grooviest threequels we've seen yet...

Put on your 3D glasses now! Sam and Will are headed to Crystal Lake for a relaxing weekend with newly hockey-masked Jason Voorhees in 1982's Friday the 13th Part III . Get ready to duck and dodge 3D baseball bats, wallets, joints, eyeballs, yo-yos and more eyeballs as Friday the 13th nails down the slasher formula that would carry Jason through nine more movies. (And by formula we mean sex, death...

This week we're taking a look at thematic trilogies from a single director. And before you worry that we're gonna go all film school on you, relax! Will and Sam watched The World's End , Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg's followup to Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz in the Three Flavours Cornetto trilogy. Can Wright and Pegg do for pub crawls and body-snatching aliens what they did for zombies and shoot-...

It's not Christmas, but that's okay 'cause we're watching the Die Hard that isn't a Christmas movie! That's right, it's time for 1995's Die Hard with a Vengeance... aka the one with Samuel L. Jackson! While John McClane plays the world's hardest game of Simon Says, Sam and Will discuss the evolution of action movies from the 80s into the 90s, delve into the many scripts that got kicked around for...

Three is the magic number as Will and Sam swing into the Spider-Verse... or at least the Parker-Verse with 2021's Spider-Man: No Way Home. Reunite with Peter 1, Peter 2, and Peter 3 as we discuss how the 27th movie (!!!) in the Marvel Cinematic Universe sneakily works as the final chapter in a trilogy AND as a surprise Spider-Man origin story! Music: Backbeat by Kevin MacLeod ( https://incompetech...

Before the MCU, before the DCEU, before the Star Wars Expanded Universe, even before the, um, Dark Universe... there were the Universal Monsters. Join Will and Sam for an old school graveyard smash as they tackle one of the oldest threequels out there, 1939's Son of Frankenstein, starring Boris Karloff, Basil Rathbone AND Bela Lugosi. Music: Backbeat by Kevin MacLeod ( https://incompetech.filmmusi...

It seemed only right that we celebrate our 13th episode with that 80s slasher classic... A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors! (April Fools, Jason!) Stay up late with Sam and Will as Freddy Krueger's franchise finds itself, and see if the Dream Warriors live up to the hype of their sick-ass theme song from Dokken. Music: Backbeat by Kevin MacLeod ( https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/ ) via Cr...

This week's episode belongs in a museum! Will and Sam revisit 1989's Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, and come to the shocking conclusion that Steven Spielberg is a pretty good director. Want another blistering hot take? John Williams makes good music. Music: Backbeat by Kevin MacLeod ( https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/ ) via Creative Commons license. ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3...

Will and Sam face Gotham's reckoning with a very different but equally messy Batman Threequel: 2012's The Dark Knight Rises, a film that boldly attempts to cram three landmark Batman stories into one film while also trying to follow up two of the most influential Batman movies ever made. Maybe "boldly" isn't the right word... Music: Backbeat by Kevin MacLeod ( https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/ ) v...

There a new Batman in theaters, and there's no better way to celebrate than revisiting the Day-Glo drenched fever dream that was Joel Schumacher's Batman Forever, the first half of our "Batman Threequel" two-parter! Crank up the Seal and/or U2 singles as Will and Sam head back to 1995 to revisit the box office smash that was, amazingly, FOUR Bat-Actors ago. (Five if you count the one made of Legos...

This week, Mexico's our beat and we're walking it with Will's latest pick, 2003's Once Upon a Time in Mexico, Robert Rodriguez's third adventure with El Mariachi... sort of. This time, the gunslinging, guitar-playing El takes a backseat to Johnny Depp, Willem Dafoe, Mickey Rourke, Eva Mendes, Ruben Blades, Cheech Marin, Danny Trejo, Enrique Iglesias, Moco the Chihuahua, the guy from Cinema Paradis...

It's Sam's pick this week, and we're headed to sunny Florida for 1985's Day of the Dead, the third entry in George Romero's multi-decade zombie saga. Along the way, they reflect on how well this movie holds up in the era of social distancing and Covid, and Sam breaks down the tangled web of "Night of the Living Dead" sequels, spinoffs, ripoffs and remakes. Music: Backbeat by Kevin MacLeod ( https:...

This week, Will and Sam take an exclusive behind-the-scenes look at the making of Stab 3: Return to Woodsboro, through the lens of the maybe-too-meta Scream 3. While ducking Ghostface, they discuss the series' complicated relationship with Sydney's late mother, lament getting too old to stay awake for midnight movies anymore, try to pin down their favorite scary movies, and get rudely interrupted...

Pop a couple red pills and jack in to Podcast Part 3 as Will and Sam delve into 2003's The Matrix Revolutions, the (former) finale to the Wachowskis' Matrix saga. Along the way, they reminisce about the phenomenon that was the original Matrix, as well as the backlash to the back-to-back sequels. Will throws down some hot takes about Reloaded and wild theories about Revolutions, and Sam gets sidetr...

Now dig on this... it's time to hit up the jazz club for the swingin' conclusion to Sam Raimi's Spider-Man saga, 2007's Spider-Man 3. Will and Sam debate whether Venom needs to always be so damn goofy, get the giggles over Butler ex Machina, and bend over backwards to avoid spoilers for Spider-Man: No Way Home. Music: Backbeat by Kevin MacLeod ( https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/ ) via Creative Com...

This week, Will and Sam take a trip to Old Detroit and/or New Delta City for 1993's RoboCop 3, aka The One With Robo-Ninjas But Not Peter Weller. Thrill as the actor playing RoboCop clearly can't move his arms, and tremble at the horror of Otomo's terrifying robo-grin. Music: Backbeat by Kevin MacLeod ( https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/ ) via Creative Commons license. ( https://creativecommons.org...

Will and Sam finally reach the end of the Halloween 3 quadrilogy with 2021's Halloween Kills... the sequel to Halloween and Halloween. By the way, does anyone know what evil's up to tonight...? Music: Backbeat by Kevin MacLeod ( https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/ ) via Creative Commons license. ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode )

It's time for Halloween's "narrative" 3rd movies, as Michael Myers stalks his niece in Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers, and then a completely different Michael Myers stalks his sister in Halloween H20: 20 Years Later. In case you haven't guessed, Michael Myers' true victim is franchise continuity. Music: Backbeat by Kevin MacLeod ( https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/ ) via Creative Commons...

Welcome to the show! Will and Sam introduce themselves and the idea behind the Part 3 Podcast, and then kick things off by talking about 1982's Halloween III: Season of the Witch, which technically isn't a Part 3 at all. Music: Backbeat by Kevin MacLeod ( https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/ ) via Creative Commons license. ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode )