Through the Lens

After some delays, and Alex getting the flu, we are back on set to wrap up Spooky Season 3™ with the Jordan Peele trilogy. No guests this week in a packed show filled with stories from a Davis fever dream, a call from Grandma Davis, so many sad sequels and questionable choices from the Russos. The trilogy is full of details, themes and brilliant characters as we discuss it all, looking at Get Out's impact and why Nope might be the year's surprise.

3 times the laughs, 3 times the podcast and 3 times the Davis. As Spooky Season 3™ is nearly over, we saved some of the best for last as we review the Alien films. 1-3 and that random sequel at the end, the Alien series has a lot to unpack and we do our best during this podcast as we cover the significance of the first film, how the sequel changed the series, and where everything went wrong after that.

Our journey through a third spooky season on Through the Lens takes us to Ancient Egypt as we watched the Mummy and The Mummy Returns, before jumping suddenly to Chine for "The Mummy": Tomb of the Dragon Emperor. Jack Hart joins the studio once again for a light news segment covering mostly NFTs and the Creed films before we jump right into the action-adventure trilogy that defined many people's childhoods.

Logan Hurston joins us on the set for the scariest episode of spooky season three, Phase 2 of the MCU. A news segment filled with remakes, reboots and other things that make Davis sad, the episode is jammed with debates discussions and more about what went right with Phase 2, like Winter Soldier, and what went wrong. The show is capped off with a ministry of truth segment that you will not want to miss.

And that story here is today, movies where the bad guys win here on Through The Lens. So buckle up and get ready to deride, ridicule and hate these endings but first, you'll have to deride, ridicule and hate something else, the news. We dissect three classic in The Usual Suspects, Primal Fear and Gone Girl while Davis spends most of the news segment angry over the Last of Us trailer.

This week Maddie Powers steps onto the set to discuss Davis' favorite heist movie and heist trilogy of all time, the Ocean's Trilogy. We have a lighter news segment than usual, with mostly things we don't want to see or don't want to happen. Then we dive into the cast, comedy and creativity of Steve Soderbergh's Ocean's Trilogy.

For one time only, we are not only the hosts of a movie podcast but also investigative reporters looking to unravel the absurd take by Oliver Stone on the JFK assassination in the appropriately titled JFK film from 1991. The film follows district attorney Jim Garrison on his quest to prove JFK's murder was really a conspiracy and we decide to pick apart Garrison's own ideas as well as Stone's "creative choices" in this mess of a film. We also go over the major announcements from D23 as well as the reaction to the Little Mermaid trailer.

We're gonna steal the Declaration of Independence. *eyebrow raise* BUT FIRST, we have to study the two greatest, and possibly only, American history heist films starring the one and only Nic Cage, the National Treasure films. Laughter is contagious on this episode with an absurd news segment covering the Don't Worry Darling debacle, Brendan Fraser and more Venice Film Festival news.

So it begins. We are finally tackling one of the biggest, longest and most successful franchises in the history of Hollywood, the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Florence Pugh news, John Carpenter's career and Brendan Fraser's comeback are just a few of the big things discussed during the news segment before we take on the first six films of the MCU, from the first Iron Man to the first Avengers film.

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Season 3 of Through the Lens has begun and Cameron Kasprzak visits the set to watch the most talked about movie of the summer, Everything Everywhere All At Once. The news segment is massive once again as the trio discusses everything from the premiere of House of the Dragon to the trailer for The Last of Us series and the importance of physical media. For one of the first times in the show's history, everyone agrees. Everything Everywhere All At Once is one of the best movies of all time, and the show divulges into what makes the films so different from anything seen before it and how the genre mashup is executed so perfectly.

0:00 start

0:37: Davis Intro

2:50 Trivia

3:33: House of Dragon News

6:45 Lord of The Rings: The Rings of Power

10:02 the Boys and Evil Superman storylines

13:30 Obi Wan Kenobi Documentary

18:35 Showrunner for Andor and Star Wars Debate

26:20: The Last of Us debacle

32: 18 The Bleep

36:24 Spider Man: No Way Home: The More Fun Stuff Version

43:48 oceans 11 prequel

46:00 Warner Bros-Discovery Out of Money, Buy Physical Media

50:45 Everything Everywhere All at Once

1:35:20 Ministry Of Truth for the MCU: Harriet Edition

1:38:30 What have we been reading?