Episode 177 - Giant Claw + Close Encounters + Satan War + Robotrix + Capt Marvel + Seventh Curse + Francis Covers the Big Town + Iced + Last of the Mohicans

On The Stacks this week, part one (0:00-1:23:41) features a more detailed re-do of a favourite movie we covered way back in the early rougher episodes, the 1957 Fred F. Sears / Sam Katzman silly turkey-that-threatened-the-world movie The Giant Claw, in addition to "Court Martial" - the 20th episode of Star Trek (TOS). In part two (1:23:42-2:45:58), we talk in shorter form about eight additional features: Steven Spielberg's 1977 first contact blockbuster Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Bart LaRue's bizarre lo-fi 1979 Satanic Panic anthology film Satan War, Jamie Luk's totally unhinged 1991 category III wuxia Robocop knockoff Robotrix, the 2019 MCU 90s flashback origin story Captain Marvel (directed by Anna Boden & Ryan Fleck), the 1986 Lam Nai-choi splatter-adventure wuxia Indiana Jones riff The Seventh Curse, Arthur Lubin's 1953 talking animal picture Francis Covers the Big Town, Jeff Kwitny's 1988 video shop ski slasher classic Iced, and Michael Mann's 1992 quasi-historical epic Last of the Mohicans. As always, in part three, we briefly go over everything else we watched on physical media in the past week and make our choices for next time.

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