Here it is, the 2025 wrap up show! Listen in as Matt, Adam, and Garrett go deep into their favorite retrospectives of the year, give their top five favorite films of the year (definitely purely some surprises here), answer YOUR questions, and give a little preview as to what to expect in the coming year. We are so pleased to go into our fifth year at this, and it’s because of people like you that we do it! Thanks so much for listening, and we’re looking forward to another year of talking about movies…and arguing.

The co-hosts close out their look at Predator with a review of Dan Trachtenberg’s film from last year Predator Badlands. With Adam really liking last week’s entry, will he enjoy seeing Trachtenberg integrate Predator with Alien, while also casting Elle Fanning in the role of the android? Next week, the Three Men and a Retrospective Podcast close out the year with their epic over 3.5 hour year end show. And then they jump right back into the retrospectives by looking at another leg of Marvel, The Punisher!

To the surprise of everyone despite Prey doing well critically and among audiences, we have two new installments of the Predator franchise in 2025. The first hit Hulu earlier this year. Under the help of Prey's Dan Trachtenberg, he chose to tell the next chapter as "chapters" in animation. In addition, it's an anthology that actually reconnects together all the stories both new and old. How do we feel about this radical new direction and what is our excitement about Predator: Badlands? Tune in next week to hear our thoughts, rankings on the series and our first retro of 2026! Disclaimer: We did review Prey upon it's release in 2022. It was part of our AVP retro that led into it as a new release. To listen to those reviews, please visit our archives!

Eight years after producer Robert Rodriguez had Adrien Brody went and fought the Predator -and Predator dogs, and bigger Predators, and Lawrence Fishburne- original Predator co-star Shane Black decided to take the reigns and see if he could make something a little more universally successful. The result, 2018’s The Predator. Yet, once again, 20th Century Fox stepped in and decided to make life a living hell for all involved. Scenes were switched, a friend of Black’s had a small scene cut due to Olivia Munn finding out the other man in the scene -who was also a friend of Black’s- had a checkered past. And the ending ended up getting completely reworked. So what do Garrett, Matt, and Adam have to say? This, was the podcast Matt and Garrett had been looking forward to since they started this series due to Adam once again having reservations to watching a movie in a franchise again due to an utter hatred for the film. It happened with Alien Covenant. Yet, unlike that 2017 film, Adam hadn’t finished watching The Predator until this viewing. Did he warm up to it? Well, let’s just say this is one of those podcasts where Garrett and Matt just kind of stand back and let Adam go. The result, is one of the most one sided hatred ladened shows the guys have done since 2017’s The Last Jedi. Listen in to see how the others feel!

After a set of Alien vs Predator films that failed to ignite any sort of passion from a hugely passionate set of fan bases, the pressure was on producer Robert Rodriguez to make a film that at least satisfy the Predator fan base. So after finally getting the green light to produce a script he’d started back in the mid 90s, Rodriguez found himself doing what he’d been wanting to do his entire career, which was make a Predator film. But by the late 2000s, Rodriguez was also a very busy producer. He had had just made the flop Grindhouse with his buddy Quentin Tarantino, and was directing a spinoff from said flop called Machette. So he cast recent Oscar winner Adrien Brody in the lead and put Nimrod Antal (Frequency) in the director’s chair for the passion project of all passion projects. The result was a 2010 film that was once again heaped with mixed reviews upon release, with some calling it a return to Predator glory and others calling it a mediocre misfire. Where do the co-hosts stand? With longtime Predator fan Adam Bunch finally getting to tell people what he thinks about Predators, gear up as the Three Men and a Retrospective Podcast reviews the film scene by scene. And if you’d like to hear the guys review the two previous Alien vs Predator films, be sure to check out the Percolated Media archives. Next week, another review Adam has been waiting to do for quite some time, a review of 2018’s The Predator!