Happy Halloween! It's time to wrap up Shriek-quel Threequel season with the oh-so-very 2006 Final Destination 3. It's a literal and figurative roller coaster ride as the boys watch Mary Elizabeth Winstead and a bunch of kids in mid-2000s Bieber hair try to outrun death while clutching their digital cameras, iPods, CD players and flip phones. Will they live long enough to reach 2007 and the arrival of the iPhone? Strap in and find out!

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It's time to talk about a f-cking movie star, 'cause Will and Sam are taking it back to 2024-slash-1985 with Ti West's MaXXXine, the conclusion to the blood-soaked Mia Goth-led X trilogy. Does this love letter to Hollywood stick the landing in the way most trilogy-enders don't? Does Sam have some hot takes about the White Album out of nowhere? The answers are mostly and of course.

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Sam recently took Will and Podcast Part 3 by surprise when he instituted a three-star grading system for any threequels past or future. Now it's time to open up the podcast archives and assign one, two or three stars to the dozens of threequels we've enjoyed (or at least tolerated). Who will get the coveted three stars (Army of Darkness)? Who must suffer the shame of a solitary one star (Robocop 3)? Who will split the difference with two (I dunno... that Resident Evil we watched maybe)? Tune in and find out.

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We're shaking (but not stirring) things up at Podcast Part 3, as Will and Sam tackle Connery, Moore, Brosnan and Craig's respective third James Bonds... Goldfinger, The Spy Who Loved Me, The World is Not Enough and Skyfall. (Apologies to Lazenby and Dalton.)

And to complete such a daring mission for podcast and country, they've brought in the host of the Tuesday Morning Screening Room podcast, writer/producer/Bond aficionado FM DeMarco. That's right, it only took 60-plus episodes, but the boys finally made a friend!

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Before Minecraft and Mario changed the game, video game movies were synonymous with failure, so mercifully very few became legit multi-movie franchises... with one notable exception. It's time to watch Resident Evil: Extinction, one of the very few video game movie threequels, and probably the best one to not feature a talking hedgehog.

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Finally, a real superhero to end the summer! With Liam Neeson's fabulous new Naked Gun in theaters, Will and Sam are taking a look back at 1994's Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult, the franchise's last installment starring Leslie Nielsen (and unsurprisingly, OJ Simpson). Warning: The words parody and satire will be used interchangeably throughout, so theater majors and film theorists be warned.

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Superhero summer continues with the high-water mark of the post-Endgame MCU, 2023's Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3. In hindsight, James Gunn made a talking raccoon the best character in the MCU, so maybe we shouldn't be that shocked that he made Superman work.

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It's a superhero summer here at Podcast Part 3, and we're going way back to 2013 with one of the MCU's true threequels, Iron Man 3, aka the one with a Mandarin but not THE Mandarin. Also, Sam blindsides Will with the new official Podcast Part 3 rating system that he totally didn't make up on the fly!

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