Podcast Part 3: The Part 3 Podcast – Details, episodes & analysis

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)

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)

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)

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)