Podcast Part 3: The Part 3 Podcast (Sam Cherington & Will Morey)

"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 Marx to thank for the entire Exorcist franchise. Music: Backbeat by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/) via Creative Commons license. (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode)

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 origin of the centuries old blood feud between vampires and werewolves. Be prepared to take notes, because this franchise has A LOT of world-building. Unfortunately, it doesn't have much else. Music: Backbeat by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/) via Creative Commons license. (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode)

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 sidetracked talking about Star Wars. Again. Music: Backbeat by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/) via Creative Commons license. (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode)

Shriek-quel Threequel season continues with Podcast Part 3's first visit to the shaky, spooky world of found footage with Paranormal Activity 3! As the low-budget, bajillion-dollar making demon possession saga takes us back to 1988, Will and Sam delve into the horror-heavy genre of found footage, pondering why it's so easy to make these movies but insanely difficult to make one that's actually good. Something about how it's hard to make a good movie look like a bad movie while still being a good movie at its core. It's complicated. Music: Backbeat by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/) via Creative Commons license. (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode)

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 MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/) via Creative Commons license. (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode)

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.filmmusic.io/) via Creative Commons license. (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode)

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 and wandering into old barns and cabins.) Music: Backbeat by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/) via Creative Commons license. (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode)

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 by Sam's dog demanding snacks. Music: Backbeat by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/) via Creative Commons license. (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode)

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)

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 by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/) via Creative Commons license. (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode)

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)

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)

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 license. (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode)

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.) Music: Backbeat by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/) via Creative Commons license. (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode)

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 like all the same nerdy crap they liked. Music: Backbeat by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/) via Creative Commons license. (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode)

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. Music: Backbeat by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/) via Creative Commons license. (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode)

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 (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/) via Creative Commons license. (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode)

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 disposable cameras. Music: Backbeat by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/) via Creative Commons license. (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode)

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.filmmusic.io/) via Creative Commons license. (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode)

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)

Get ready for 1.21 Gigawatts of fun (and respectful film discourse) as Will and Sam revisit Back to the Future Part III, aka the one in the Old West, aka the one with the random ZZ Top cameo, aka the one with Mary Steenburgen on the poster. There's no Johnny B. Goode and very little hoverboard as Marty and Doc embark on a passable Western comedy that happens to feature time travel. It's still a Back to the Future movie though, so expect some warm Amblin fuzzies from our two Millennial hosts... even if the movie itself is, like your average McFly, kind of a slacker. Music: Backbeat by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/) via Creative Commons license. (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode)

This week on Podcast Part 3, we don't got a podcast... we got a family. But only slightly, because this is The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift, the Season of the Witch of the Fast franchise! Join not-quite-Paul Walker as he traverses the mean streets of Tokyo in this threequel that's also canonically the seventh movie in the franchise. Did you know that this franchise that's basically the MCU with muscle cars had a sequel that was actually about racing?! We were just as surprised as you! Music: Backbeat by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/) via Creative Commons license. (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode)

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 Die Hard 3, and break down what makes Bruce Willis such a great action hero. 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 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 by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/) via Creative Commons license. (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode)

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 black & white movies from 1933 and 1954 led to this colorful slap fight between a radioactive lizard and a possibly inebriated gorilla. Music: Backbeat by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/) via Creative Commons license. (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode)

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://incompetech.filmmusic.io/) via Creative Commons license. (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode)

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://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode)

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 and respectful discussion about The Last Jedi. (Yes, it can be done!) Music: Backbeat by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/) via Creative Commons license. (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode)

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 never actually got made. Music: Backbeat by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/) via Creative Commons license. (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode)

It's October and Shriek-quel Threequel season is upon us once again! Sharpen up your Daggers of Megiddo because we're taking on the Antichrist himself in Omen III: The Final Conflict. Damien Thorn is Sam Neill now, and he's hellbent (har har) on destroying that pesky Jesus once and for all. While Damien recruits every evil little British boy he can find, Sam and Will compare this take on the Devil to The Exorcist, Rosemary's Baby and the original Omen (unfair), wonder why Satan is always vastly better prepared than God in these movies (fair) and lament that Jesus and the Antichrist don't have a John Wick-style fight to settle things (very fair). Music: Backbeat by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/) via Creative Commons license. (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode)

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 Commons license. (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode)

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 Jaws by Peter Benchley." Music: Backbeat by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/) via Creative Commons license. (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode)

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-em-ups? Can you tell a more mature story while staging a bar fight with goo-filled aliens? And were TWELVE pubs too many? Tune in and find out! Music: Backbeat by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/) via Creative Commons license. (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode)

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/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode)

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: Backbeat by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/) via Creative Commons license. (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode)

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/3.0/legalcode)

It's Problematic Director Days here at Podcast Part 3 as Will and Sam continue their foray in to the dear departed X-Men franchise with X-Men: The Last Stand and X-Men: Apocalypse, two threequels jockeying for worst superhero movie of all time. Thrill as the Phoenix Saga is woefully botched twice in one franchise, and marvel as Oscar Isaac and Jennifer Lawrence compete to see who can look the most bored! Also Sam nobly attempts to derail the episode by talking about Furiosa. Music: Backbeat by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/) via Creative Commons license. (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode)

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 Creative Commons license. (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode)

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 an episode about an Italian war epic from 1966. Music: Backbeat by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/) via Creative Commons license. (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode)

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)

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 wonder if maybe it's for the best that this sleazy action movie really isn't trying to do or say anything profound about the justice system of 80s NYC. Music: Backbeat by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/) via Creative Commons license. (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode)

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/) via Creative Commons license. (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode)

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 crap about it because they have a healthy relationship. Music: Backbeat by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/) via Creative Commons license. (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode)

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)

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 Paradiso and... um... am I forgetting anyone? Music: Backbeat by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/) via Creative Commons license. (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode)

The most consistently good franchise in movie history is back and grimmer than ever with 2017's War for the Planet of the Apes! As the saga of Caesar draws to a close, Will and Sam discuss whether this is the rare trilogy where the third movie is the best one, how a campy big-budget Twilight Zone episode managed to yield an 80% great series of sci-fi movies, and why the hell Steve Zahn isn't getting more work in Hollywood. (Bad Ape!) Music: Backbeat by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/) via Creative Commons license. (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode)

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" before the prequels, and beat a very-dead horse by proclaiming this movie a decent threequel but also a lava-scorched hot mess. Music: Backbeat by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/) via Creative Commons license. (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode)