The Trilogy Podcast!

2. AVENGERS: AGE OF ULTRON

🗞️🧛🏻‍♂️ SUNDAY FUNNY PAGES 🧛🏻‍♂️🗞️ Kick your feet up, break open that leftover candy, and cleanse your palette of Halloween horror movies by checking into the Hotel Transylvania Trilogy: • Hotel Transylvania (2012) • Hotel Transylvania 2 (2015) • Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation (2018) This animated dad-joke machine of a trilogy — from the creator of Dexter’s Laboratory Genndy Tartakovsky — stars Adam Sandler as the voice of Count Dracula, an overprotective monster dad running a luxury resort where monsters can be themselves (and humans are strictly off the menu). Selena Gomez voices Dracula’s eternally teenage daughter Mavis, while Andy Samberg plays her human boyfriend Jonathan — the guy who teaches Drac that maybe humans aren’t so bad after all. The hotel is packed with Sandler’s usual crew (Steve Buscemi, Kevin James, David Spade), SNL legends (Molly Shannon, Chris Parnell, Jon Lovitz), and comedy icon Mel Brooks as Dracula’s father, Vlad. This is one of the rare trilogies where the series improved with funnier moments and more lovable characters as it went on.

🥉 HAPPY THIRDS-DAY!🥉 On Thursdays, we celebrate the third movie in a trilogy, and in honor of our New Episode, this week’s feature is MaXXXine. MaXXXine (2024) closes the book on Ti West and Mia Goth’s X trilogy in pure 1985 Hollywood excess. Six years after surviving the farmhouse massacre in X, Maxine Minx is chasing mainstream stardom in Los Angeles while the Night Stalker terrorizes the city. The film trades the rural Texas grit of X and the Technicolor melodrama of Pearl for sleazy neon, VHS grain, and the cutthroat glamour of ’80s Tinseltown. Mia Goth delivers another magnetic performance as Maxine—steely, ambitious, and still living by the mantra “I will not accept a life I do not deserve.” It’s the highest-grossing entry in the series and West’s deliberate send-off, wrapping the themes of fame, desire, and violence with a bloody, stylish bow.