We’re still working on getting a regular schedule going, and even though this was meant to be a shorter episode specifically for the Dune II synopsis, we end up chatting about Denis Villeneuve�...
https://www.quartertothree.com/fp/2024/04/04/qt3-movie-podcast-dune-part-ii/
Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League, which is an absolute delight and one of my favorite games in a long time, has four main things going for it. The first and most immediately obvious is Metr...
We’re doing something a bit different this time, discussing a very strange and strangely compelling British comedy/thriller that Kellywand calls a “What’s going on?” show. It’s technica...
https://www.quartertothree.com/fp/2024/02/19/qt3-movie-podcast-am-i-being-unreasonable/
When it comes to bees, the latest Jason Statham vehicle gives us a lot to think about. While Statham does the hard work of administering punches, we ponder the implications of beekeeping as a met...
https://www.quartertothree.com/fp/2024/02/13/qt3-movie-podcast-the-beekeeper/
We don’t actually know the top ten movies of 2023. But we can talk about our ten favorites! We’ll also tell you our most surprising, our most disappointing, our favorite little thingies, and ...
https://www.quartertothree.com/fp/2024/01/12/qt3-movie-podcast-top-ten-movies-of-2023/
When a giant lizard wades ashore and lays waste to Tokyo, we can’t very well NOT podcast about it. The post Qt3 Movie Podcast: Godzilla Minus One appeared first on Quarter to Three .
https://www.quartertothree.com/fp/2024/01/01/qt3-movie-podcast-godzilla-minus-one/
It’s no revelation that some old timey songs can have a sinister subtext. One of my many issues with Olivia Wilde’s Don’t Worry Darling, a predictable and ultimately pedestrian mystery, is ...
https://www.quartertothree.com/fp/2022/10/26/best-thing-youll-see-all-week-gods-country/
Write ‘n’ Fight has every sign of being a gag instead of an actual game. And even if it is an actual game, it’s just a very very indie fighting game. But as far as gags go, I’ve seen a lo...
https://www.quartertothree.com/fp/2022/08/21/is-write-n-fight-for-real-find-out-early-tomorrow/
Director Jaume Collet-Serra gave the original Orphan the Hitchcockian touches it needed to be more than just a throwaway evil kid movie. And it had a great cast. Peter Sarsgaard and Vera Farmiga ...
https://www.quartertothree.com/fp/2022/08/20/orphan-first-kill-if-you-thoughts-hobbits-were-awkward/
Nope writer and director Jordan Peele seems to like horror movies as much as we do. We’re divided on this particular one, but at least we agree we saw something we’d never seen in a movie bef...
https://www.quartertothree.com/fp/2022/08/10/qt3-movie-podcast-nope/
When I need food, I drive past the local grocery at the bottom of my hill and hang a right on the way to the Von’s, a chain supermarket farther down the boulevard. But today I just need bananas...
https://www.quartertothree.com/fp/2022/08/05/marvel-and-meaning-part-1-just-bananas/
Tom Chick and Kelly Wand have spent their lives wrestling with David Cronenberg movies. Why stop now? Suffice it to say, we each bring a lot of baggage to Cronenberg’s latest. Up next: Nope T...
https://www.quartertothree.com/fp/2022/07/27/qt3-movie-podcast-crimes-of-the-future/
Welcome to the single most extensively researched episode of the Quarter to Three Movie Podcast. Tom Chick and Kelly Wand have pored over the source material for Taika Waititi’s latest Thor and...
https://www.quartertothree.com/fp/2022/07/15/qt3-movie-podcast-thor-love-and-thunder/
Joachim Trier and Eskil Vogt co-wrote a script for Thelma, which Trier directed. Now Vogt has written and directed his own script for The Innocents, which has a lot in common with Thelma. We take...
https://www.quartertothree.com/fp/2022/06/29/qt3-movie-podcast-the-innocents-and-thelma/
Parody games don’t have a great track record. Most of them are cash-grab garbage that fail to successfully mimic the game they are spoofing. Like parody movies, the best ones are good genre pro...
Tom “Marmoset” Chick and Kelly “Tagline” Wand drive up the onramp, adjust their rear view mirrors, activate their turn signal, and carefully merge onto the highway to the danger zone! But...
https://www.quartertothree.com/fp/2022/06/15/qt3-movie-podcast-top-gun-maverick/
Tom Chick and Kelly Wand join Jessie Buckley and Rories Kinnear for an unnerving vacation in the English countryside. Are they all in a horror movie, an allegory, both, or neither? And what do we...
https://www.quartertothree.com/fp/2022/06/08/qt3-movie-podcast-men/
Remember back when Wizards of the Coast updated Magic the Gathering by changing the hand size of your initial draw? Rather than drawing seven cards, you instead just took your full deck into your...
https://www.quartertothree.com/fp/2022/06/07/uh-somethings-very-very-different-in-back-4-blood/
EA and DICE are launching Zero Hour, the first new season of content since the game released eight months ago. There have been small bits of cosmetic content as well as some substantial patching ...
Hmm, something called Interceptor on Netflix. Here we go again, another half-assed action movie for their roster. I’m sure I’ll have completely forgotten about by the time it’s over, if not...
https://www.quartertothree.com/fp/2022/06/04/the-best-bad-movie-youll-see-all-week-interceptor/
We’ve got plenty to say about Sam Raimi’s Marvel movie — including a synopsis featuring three celebrity appearances! — but we should warn you there’s a fair amount of talk about Everyth...
Old World is out today on Steam! Bruce Geryk and I have an ongoing game underway and we’ll be posting an update every ten turns. Here is our starting situation. The post Tom and Bruce Online:...
https://www.quartertothree.com/fp/2022/05/19/tom-and-bruce-online-old-world/
The above video comes courtesy of the John Burroughs High School Powerhouse choir group. The group wrote and performed this mini-play about Andrew Ryan and his tragicomic dystopia set to some cat...
Ubisoft has turned off online multiplayer and online services for 90 games. The list of impacted titles includes almost an even dozen Just Dance installments, a handful of Splinter Cells, older A...
It’s April Fools’ Day which means you get a tidal wave of dumb jokes and pranks all day on the internet. Game developers like to get in on the action by teasing fake updates to their games. S...
Epic Games has introduced a permanent gameplay mode for Fortnite with no building. All you old-school shooter vets that complained about the twitchy “juvenile” need to out-build enemies to su...
https://www.quartertothree.com/fp/2022/03/29/you-wanted-a-pure-shooter-in-fortnite-now-youve-got-it/
Robert Pattinson and Zoë Kravitz are doing press interviews for the launch of the new Batman movie. During their interview with French program Clique X, Pattinson recalled his love for Final Fan...
The Sims 4 My Wedding Stories DLC pack will not be sold in Russia due to the country’s federal laws against so-called “propaganda” that restricts the depiction of “non-traditional sexual ...
I hope you’re all happy. This is where we are. We’ve gotten to the point that Ubisoft Mainz is crowing about the “success and the extremely positive reception” of the cosmetic DLC they so...
Bethesda Softworks has announced Tales of Tribute, a collectible card game that will be playable from within The Elder Scrolls Online. It’s coming with the High Isle expansion for the MMO, alth...
One of my fondest early videogame memories is playing the 1988 adaptation of William Gibson’s Neuromancer. It was just a point-and-click adventure game, but it had a cyberspace to hack into. On...
In 2021, I finally came to appreciate the Hitman games, although part of appreciating them is realizing how little they’ve progressed since their latest model. Hitman III is great, to be sure. ...
https://www.quartertothree.com/fp/2022/01/14/top-ten-games-of-2021/
What does GLaDOS have to do with car insurance? Nothing, but Geico apparently thinks a commercial tie-in to an old game will sell more coverage agreements. At least there wasn’t a cake joke in ...
https://www.quartertothree.com/fp/2022/01/13/the-geico-gecko-is-thinking-with-portals/
The wrong way to watch Guillermo del Toro’s adaptation of the 1946 novel Nightmare Alley is by reading the book first. Because then you’ll be one of those tedious “the book was better…!�...
The gold rush for gaming Non-fungible Tokens (NFT) is on! Ubisoft is the first big-name publisher dipping into the “investment” fad by introducing Ubisoft Quartz. Think of it as a way to make...
Halo Infinite’s free-to-play multiplayer released as a “surprise” early beta drop on November 15th, and in the days since almost everyone agrees that the shooting and movement is great, but...
Games Workshop has published a warning that real-world hate groups are not welcome. It’s been a thorny issue for decades. Racists, xenophobes, and extremists have always been attracted to the f...
https://www.quartertothree.com/fp/2021/11/19/nazis-please-stay-away-from-warhammer/
When David Cronenberg adapted James Ballard’s car crash fetish novel, Crash, he made a movie about a bunch of weirdos I couldn’t possibly understand. Mainly because they seemed like nonsense ...
https://www.quartertothree.com/fp/2021/11/01/the-best-fast-and-furious-youll-see-all-week-titane/
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Anniversary Edition is coming. That probably brings the different versions of Skyrim up to infinity plus one when you factor in all the platforms it’s on. It’s ten...
Jack White, former lead of the White Stripes, has published his first solo track in four years. Taking Me Back has that familiar Jack White distortion and heavy drums, but this time he’s partne...
https://www.quartertothree.com/fp/2021/10/21/not-even-your-ears-are-safe-from-call-of-duty-vanguard/
Ubisoft has updated Assassin’s Creed Valhalla and added the Discovery Tour. The mode adds the peaceful “edutainment” tour of the game’s time period. Like previous entries in the series, y...
Epic Games is launching the initial version of its achievements next week. Since the Epic Games Store launched in December of 2018, one of the oft-cited criticisms of the platform is how it lacks...
https://www.quartertothree.com/fp/2021/10/04/epic-games-achievements-unlocked/
Ubisoft is working on a new entertainment product based on its Driver property. Ubisoft Film & Television, most recently responsible for Werewolves Within, is developing a Driver live-action seri...
https://www.quartertothree.com/fp/2021/09/14/are-you-ready-to-binge-some-driver/
Harry McCracken, an editor at Fast Company, used to write games for the Radio Shack TRS-80 when he was a teen. Back then, the games were sold as text code in a magazine or book that users would h...