Episode 167 - Great Dictator + Qatsi Trilogy + LA Confidential + Jesus Christ Superstar + Spiderman Homecoming + Blackbeard's Ghost + Zombie Lake + Green Slime

This week on The Stacks we begin in part one (0:00-1:08:39) with a discussion of Charlie Chaplin's 1940 anti-fascist classic The Great Dictator, in addition to "The Corbomite Maneuver" - the 10th episode of the original 1966 Star Trek series. In part two (1:08:40-2:35:56), we have nine additional films we're talking about, beginning with the Qatsi Trilogy, directed by Godfrey Reggio, as well as Curtis Hanson's 1997 neo-noir LA Confidential, Norman Jewison's landmark adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webber's classic rock opera Jesus Christ Superstar, Jon Watts' 2017 MCU entry Spider-Man: Homecoming, Robert Stevenson's 1968 Disney ditch film Blackbeard's Ghost, the notorious cheap 1981 video nasty Zombie Lake (inherited by Jean Rollin from Jess Franco), and Kinji Fukasaku's pulpy American-style 1968 sci-fi horror The Green Slime. As usual, in part three we talk about everything else watched since last time, and make our picks for next week.

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