Episode 152 - Vital + Haze & more

On The Stacks this week, in part one (0:00-1:42:08), we return to the Solid Metal Nightmares box set with the next two Shinya Tsukamoto movies, 2004's Vital and 2005's digital video short feature Haze, in addition to "Charlie X" (the third episode of Star Trek TOS). In part two (1:42:09-3:02:14) we discuss six additional pictures in shorter form - James Gunn's 2014 MCU blockbuster Guardians of the Galaxy, the weird, dark, franchise-expansion of Ted Post's 1970 film Beneath the Planet of the Apes, Lin Pin's quasi-documentary 1975 Brucesploitation simulacrum Goodbye Bruce Lee: His Last Game of Death, the ultra-self-aware 2015 mumblecore omphalos-infinity of Todd Rohal and Joe Swanberg's Uncle Kent 2, the third Surf Reality Movie of the Month (Robert Prichard's Thrill Kill Video Club) and finally, Todd Reynold's loving 1996 SOV drone tribute to Romero and Lynch, Living a Zombie Dream.

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