Episodes

  • Superman III / Superman Returns

    Superman III / Superman Returns
    Feb 15 2024

    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 Lex Luthor (canceled), the boys discuss the bumpy cinematic journey of the most iconic superhero of all time, question the damage Five for Fighting has done to the Superman brand, and Sam offers his recasting of Superman Returns with the best that 2006 Hollywood has to offer. Music: Backbeat by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/) via Creative Commons license. (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode)
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    1 hr and 30 mins
  • The Muppets Take Manhattan

    The Muppets Take Manhattan
    Feb 2 2024

    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 Voorhees, the Muppets just simply aren't up to the task of taking Manhattan. But we love them anyway. Music: Backbeat by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/) via Creative Commons license. (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode)
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    46 mins
  • Psycho III

    Psycho III
    Oct 31 2023
    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, the various cinematic influences that made their way into actor Anthony Perkins' directorial debut, and speculate on whether Jeff Fahey's sleazy/friendly/crazy character was originally two or even three separate people in the original script. Music: Backbeat by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/) via Creative Commons license. (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode)
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    58 mins
  • Child's Play 3

    Child's Play 3
    Oct 28 2023
    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 repeatedly confuses Mena Suvari and Thora Birch (neither of whom are in this movie). Music: Backbeat by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/) via Creative Commons license. (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode)
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    48 mins
  • Leatherface: Texas Chainsaw Massacre III

    Leatherface: Texas Chainsaw Massacre III
    Oct 18 2023
    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 bugnuts legacy of Tobe Hooper's first two massacres. Backbeat by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/) via Creative Commons license. (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode)
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    59 mins
  • Blade: Trinity

    Blade: Trinity
    Oct 9 2023

    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://incompetech.filmmusic.io/) via Creative Commons license. (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode)
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    52 mins
  • The Terminators Three

    The Terminators Three
    Oct 2 2023
    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 (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/) via Creative Commons license. (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode)
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    1 hr and 30 mins
  • Police Story 3: Supercop

    Police Story 3: Supercop
    Sep 25 2023

    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 in 20 years, and just generally gush about Michelle Yeoh, as one should. Backbeat by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/) via Creative Commons license. (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode)
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    55 mins