Mellow, spoiler-heavy discussions exploring an absurd physical media collection
Episodes
Sunday Jan 02, 2022
Sunday Jan 02, 2022
On this week's episode, Shana and j. discuss the lesser-known 1990 film adaptation of Captain America, directed by Albert Pyun, as well as the 2021 directorial debut of Prano Bailey-Bond, Censor, which deals with many of the topics we talked about in our earlier episode on Video Nasties: Draconian Days.
The active Stacks list can be found at https://letterboxd.com/jshopa/list/the-stacks/
Monday Dec 27, 2021
Monday Dec 27, 2021
This week, Shana and j. have some alternative Xmas programming with 1985's wildly faithful board game adaptation Clue (directed by Jonathan Lynn) and the 2020 Jewish comedy of anxiety Shiva Baby (directed by Emma Seligman).
Active list of The Stacks can be found online at https://letterboxd.com/jshopa/list/the-stacks/
Sunday Dec 19, 2021
Sunday Dec 19, 2021
This week Shana and j. discuss a couple all-time classics - the landmark original Godzilla film from 1954 (aka Gojira, directed by Ishiro Honda), then we get festive with 1984's highly controversial Christmas slasher, Silent Night Deadly Night (directed by Charles E. Sellier, Jr). In between, some additional discussion of Heavy Trip (2018) and Death Machines (1976).
The active main Stacks list is online at https://letterboxd.com/jshopa/list/the-stacks/
Sunday Dec 12, 2021
Sunday Dec 12, 2021
On this week's episode, Shana and j. discuss the great 1990 Tom Hanks / Meg Ryan romantic comedy Joe Versus the Volcano (directed by John Patrick Shanley) and the sleazy mutant giallo of Your Vice Is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key (directed by Sergio Martino, 1972, based on Edgar Allen Poe's "The Black Cat").
The active list of The Stacks (and The Inactive Stacks) are online at https://letterboxd.com/jshopa/lists/
Sunday Dec 05, 2021
Sunday Dec 05, 2021
For our 25th episode, marking fifty films, Shana & j. discuss Shinya Tsukamoto's Tokyo Fist (1995) and Takeshi Miike's Terra Formars (2016).
The live list of The Stacks is online at https://letterboxd.com/jshopa/list/the-stacks/
Sunday Nov 28, 2021
Sunday Nov 28, 2021
This week, Shana and j. have 101 monsters to discuss! First, the saddest kaiju of all, South Korea's first venture into the genre with Yongary, Monster of the Deep (1967), followed by 100 Monsters (1968), the first of the Yokai Monsters series.
As always, the live list of The Stacks is online at https://letterboxd.com/jshopa/list/the-stacks/
Sunday Nov 21, 2021
Sunday Nov 21, 2021
This week, Shana and j. discuss the confounding sole directorial effort of Dan Aykroyd, Nothing But Trouble (1991), as well as two great Wakaliwood films, Who Killed Captain Alex? (2010) and Bad Black (2016).
As always, the live list of The Stacks is online at https://letterboxd.com/jshopa/list/the-stacks/
Sunday Nov 14, 2021
Sunday Nov 14, 2021
This week, Shana and j. talk about two great Italian genre pictures, the highly influential Sergio Leone western A Fistful of Dollars (1964) and the kinetic 80s Lamberto Bava horror film Demons (1985).
The active list of The Stacks is online at https://letterboxd.com/jshopa/list/the-stacks/
Saturday Nov 06, 2021
Saturday Nov 06, 2021
In our first episode back from the Halloween SPOOKY season, Shana and j. discuss the grimy French anti-Catholic drama of Don't Deliver Us From Evil (dir. Joël Séria, 1971) and the surprisingly light-hearted and self-aware horror-comedy Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-o-Rama (dir. David DeCoteau, 1988), plus a little bit in-between on Clive Barker's 1987 classic Hellraiser.
Sunday Oct 31, 2021
Sunday Oct 31, 2021
On the final entry in The Spooky Stacks for 2021, Shana and j. discuss John Carpenter's influential classic Halloween (1978), followed up by John McNaughton's wild underseen psychotronic alien picture, The Borrower (1986).
The Spooky Stacks will be returning to the crypt until next October, but the usual Stacks list is, as always, at https://letterboxd.com/jshopa/list/the-stacks/