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

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)