The Stacks

This week on The Stacks, in part one (0:00-1:30:21), we talk about the 1990 Andy Sidaris boobs and bullets picture GUNS, in addition to the sixth episode of Breaking Bad's first season. In part two (1:30:22-2:25:51) we talk in shorter form about 8 additional features: Akiva Schaffer's excellent 2025 reboot of The Naked Gun, the 1977 Lewis Gilbert James Bond greatest hits entry The Spy Who Loved Me, Paul W.S. Anderson's big silly 2010 video game movie Resident Evil: Afterlife, Joel Schumacher's overcooked 1997 camp superhero movie Batman & Robin, Emmett Alston's wacky 1988 horror grab-bag Demonwarp, the 1984 Antoine Pellisier abstract Super-8 slasher Folies Meurtrieres (aka Killing Spree), Troy Duffy's super-edgy 1999 cult indie picture The Boondock Saints, and the eerie 1975 Peter Weir gothic drama Picnic at Hanging Rock. In part three, we talk briefly about everything else we've watched since last time, and make our picks for next week.

The live list of The Stacks is online at https://letterboxd.com/jshopa/list/the-stacks/

This week on The Stacks, in part one (0:00-1:26:32), we talk about the Nobuhiko Obayashi's surrealist 1981 idol film School in the Crosshairs, in addition to the fifth episode of Breaking Bad's first season. In part two (1:26:33-2:27:04) we talk in shorter form about 8 additional features: the 1989 Kazuki Omori kaiju classic Godzilla vs Biollante, Kevin Smith's 1994 indie film debut Clerks, Yukio Noda's wacky 1974 Brucesploitation Za Karate 2, the 1983 Landis / Spielberg / Dante / Miller collab anthology Twilight Zone: The Movie, the 1992 Herman Yau Hong Kong crime film Best of the Best, Justin Lin's 2013 franchise entry Fast & Furious 6, the 2014 Jaume Collett-Serra Liam Neeson transit thriller Non-Stop, and 2024's Isaac Gale and Ryan Olson surrealist biopic Swamp Dogg Gets His Pool Painted. In part three, we talk briefly about everything else we've watched since last time, and make our picks for next week.

The live list of The Stacks is online at https://letterboxd.com/jshopa/list/the-stacks/

This week on The Stacks, in part one (0:00-1:30:17), we talk about the 1996 Cameron Crowe romcom blockbuster Jerry Maguire, in addition to the fourth episode of Breaking Bad's first season and a furry-casting for Batman Forever. In part two (1:30:18-2:13:43) we talk in shorter form about 8ish additional features: the 2002 Peter Hastings Disney theme park attraction adaptation flop The Country Bears, the goofy 1974 Guy Hamilton James Bond entry The Man With the Golden Gun, Isaac Florentine's 2009 Scott Adkins martial arts picture Ninja and its 2013 sequel Shadow of a Tear, Matt Johnson's 2023 fictionalized story of the rise and fall of Research in Motion, Blackberry, a quick revisit of Joel Schumacher's 1995 pop-neon-camp Batman Forever, the 2000 Bryan Singer comic book adaptation X-Men and its 2003 sequel X2, and the first episode of Wayne Spitzer's Tacoma, WA public access show Dead of Night. In part three, we talk briefly about everything else we've watched since last time, and make our picks for next week.

The live list of The Stacks is online at https://letterboxd.com/jshopa/list/the-stacks/

This week on The Stacks, in part one (0:00-1:35:19), we talk about the John Carl Buechler Elseworlds Jason entry Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood, in addition to the third episode of Breaking Bad and a furry-casting for Fast Five. In part two (1:35:20-2:27:19) we talk in shorter form about 8 additional features: the 1993 Bruce Timm / Eric Radomski animated picture Batman: Mask of the Phantasm, the 2007 Russell Mulcahy franchise entry Resident Evil: Extinction, the 2018 Ron Howard prequel Solo: A Star Wars Story, the 1985 George Miller & George Ogilvie post-apocalyptic film Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome, a revisit of the 2011 Justin Lin mega-heist film Fast Five, the expensive Kevin Reynolds 1995 eco-dystopia Waterworld, the 1991 Hisayasu Sato pink film Turtle Vision, and Martin Scorsese's 1999 late-career masterpiece Bringing Out the Dead. In part three, we talk briefly about everything else we've watched since last time, and make our picks for next week.

The live list of The Stacks is online at https://letterboxd.com/jshopa/list/the-stacks/

This week on The Stacks, in part one (0:00-1:16:48), we talk about the bloody Lucio Fulci western Massacre Time, in addition to the second episode of Breaking Bad. In part two (1:16:49-2:24:56) we talk in shorter form about 8 additional features: the 2011 Lynne Ramsay 'coping with an evil child' film We Need to Talk About Kevin, the 1973 Guy Hamilton James Bond entry Live and Let Die, the 1981 George Miller dystopian carsploitation Mad Max 2 (aka The Road Warrior), the 2017 Lynne Ramsay Joaquin Phoenix Taxi Driver riff You Were Never Really Here, the 1992 ultra-Tim Burton film Batman Returns, the 2022 Natalia Sinelnikova creeping fascism and pandemic vibes picture We Might as Well Be Dead, the 2001 Ringo Lam JCVD x JCVD picture Replicant, and the 1992 Cameron Crowe grunge scene romcom Singles. In part three, we talk briefly about everything else we've watched since last time, and make our picks for next week.

The live list of The Stacks is online at https://letterboxd.com/jshopa/list/the-stacks/

This week on The Stacks, in part one (0:00-1:48:30), we talk about Robert Clouse's notorious official 1978 Brucesploitation picture Game of Death, in addition to the pilot episode of Breaking Bad. In part two (1:48:31-3:08:20) we talk in shorter form about 13ish additional features: Todd Holland's 1989 proto-kid power classic The Wizard, Paul W.S. Anderson's 2002 video game adaptation Resident Evil and its 2004 sequel Resident Evil: Apocalypse (directed by Alexander Witt), the season 4 finale and season 5 opener of Star Trek: The Next Generation, the 1979 George Miller ozploitation classic Mad Max, Russell Mulcahy's landmark 1986 Cannon Film Highlander, JF Lawton's surprisingly intense 1995 martial arts thriller The Hunted, the iconic 1989 Cameron Crowe teen romance Say Anything, the pilot episode of the 50s anthology horror show The Veil, furry/toon-casting discussion of The Matrix Resurrections (plus ranking the Wachowskis filmography) and Romero's Dawn of the Dead, the 1974 Yukio Noda Brucesploitation The Karate (known in the US as Bronson Lee, Champion), the crazy 1979 Joe Law exploitation kung-fu The Crippled Masters, the 1995 Hisayasu Sato pink comedy Rafureshia, and the 1988 Newt Arnold JCVD martial arts picture Bloodsport. In part three, we talk briefly about everything else we've watched in the past couple weeks, and make our picks for next week.

The live list of The Stacks is online at https://letterboxd.com/jshopa/list/the-stacks/

Due to illness, this week's episode is postponed for one week but we will be back next week with a much extended parts two and three

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This week on The Stacks, in part one (0:00-1:23:15), we talk about the 1991 Toshiharu Ikeda franchise legacy v-cinema revival Female Prisoner Scorpion: Death Threat, in addition to the conclusion of American Horror Story season 1 ("Afterbirth"). In part two (1:23:15-2:23:32) we talk in shorter form about 8ish additional features: the 2015 Wachowskis sci-fi epic flop Jupiter Ascending, a pile of classic Disney Mickey shorts from the Celebrating Mickey disc, Thomas Alfredson's infamous 2017 crime thriller flop The Snowman, the 1967 Herschell Gordon Lewis sex-ed scare film The Girl, The Body and the Pill, the 1938 Harry Lachman meta-melodrama It Happened in Hollywood, the 1996 Kaizo Hayashi conclusion to the Maiku Hama trilogy, The Trap, the 1993 Hisayasu Sato pink mystery Kyrie Eleison, and the 2002 Lynne Ramsay grief and vibes black comedy/drama Morvern Callar. In part three, we talk briefly about everything else we've watched since last time, and make our picks for next week.

The live list of The Stacks is online at https://letterboxd.com/jshopa/list/the-stacks/

This week on The Stacks, in part one (0:00-1:18:14), we talk about the 1986 Disney animated feature The Great Mouse Detective (directed by John Musker, Ron Clements, Burny Mattinson and David Michener), in addition to the penultimate episode of American Horror Story season 1 ("Birth"). In part two (1:18:15-2:04:29) we talk in shorter form about 7 additional features: the 2009 Justin Lin franchise entry Fast & Furious (4th in the series), the 2024 Luis Ortega surreal crime film Kill the Jockey, the 2007 Simon J. Smith & Steve Hickner animated Jerry Seinfeld abomination Bee Movie, Zach Clark's 2023 bodysnatchers / pandemic brainrot film The Becomers, the gnarly 1982 Yang Chuan Shaw Brothers ghost story Hell Has No Boundary, Jim Makichuk's snowy Canadian 1981 slasher/cannibal vibes horror Ghostkeeper, and the heavy (but dreamy) 1999 Lynne Ramsay Scottish social drama Ratcatcher. In part three, we talk briefly about everything else we've watched since last time, and make our picks for next week, concluding our annual resolutions month.

The live list of The Stacks is online at https://letterboxd.com/jshopa/list/the-stacks/

This week on The Stacks, in part one (0:00-1:31:12), we talk about Thomas Vinterberg's blackly comic and emotionally intense 1998 Dogma 95 feature Festen (aka The Celebration), in addition to the tenth episode of American Horror Story season 1 ("Smoldering Children"). In part two (1:31:13-2:39:59) we talk in shorter form about 8 additional features: Steven Spielberg's 2002 sci-fi action dystopia Minority Report, Hisayasu Sato's 1994 AIDS crisis pink film Love - Zero = Infinity, Bill Plympton's twisted, free-wheeling 1997 independent animated feature I Married a Strange Person!, the 1983 Chor Yuen Shaw Brothers Superman wuxia knockoff Descendant of the Sun, the 2012 Bruce Davison Asylum/SyFy collab Bigfoot, the 1977 Bill Lustig comedic hardcore The Violation of Claudia, the expansive 2012 Wachowskis & Tom Tykwer novel adaptation Cloud Atlas, and Sidney Lumet's odd, self-indulgent Motown musical The Wiz. In part three, we talk briefly about everything else we've watched since last time, and make our picks for next week, continuing our annual resolutions month.

The live list of The Stacks is online at https://letterboxd.com/jshopa/list/the-stacks/