The STACKS

Those pesky STACKS boys are back for another casual chat about what we've been enjoying recently! 

00:00 - Lets go

01:11 - Stephen's TV Block! Ms. Marvel, Resident Evil.

21:00 - Nathan for You & The Rehearsal 

26:36 - Movies! Béla Tarr & Studio Ghibli completion 

30:45 - Shin Ultraman 

43:20 - A Spooky Summer Scavenger Hunt Movie Marathon!  

50:10 - Listener recommendations - The Fountainhead & Bug

1:03:20 - The weird and wonderful David Bowie

We want to hear what you've been reading, watching, and listening to, too, so why not email your updates, comments, queries, questions, talking points, compliments, to [email protected] 

Stephen is joined by the incomparable Pluriebus to talk about their history with writing, their approach to the film essay, and who and what shaped their critical thinking. 

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Towards the end of the conversation, Pluriebus mentions a variety of their favourite reviews. You can find links to them here:

Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick - Jane Austen and the Masturbating Girl - https://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/polisci/faculty/chwe/austen/sedgwick.pdf

Lindsay Ellis - 

Death of the Hollywood Movie Musical https://youtu.be/b8o7LzGqc3E 

Independence Day vs. War of the Worlds https://youtu.be/KioF1sTQFtE 

George Weidman / Superbunnyhop - Media Literacy and Game News https://youtu.be/fYHrEp917MI 

The Abridged Videogaming History of Big-Money Buyouts & Mergers https://youtu.be/_dqZoSLhwUY

 Dara K. Marzipan -  Sleeping Beauty https://boxd.it/3fe57 

Maleficent https://boxd.it/3fFzt

 Drew Edelstein -  Phantom Thread https://boxd.it/112UYx 

Nomadland https://boxd.it/1FYWWT 

Sparky / ScreeningNotes -  Portrait of a Lady on Fire https://boxd.it/Zry53 

The Lure https://boxd.it/1rdJ9p 

Theo / reibureibu Cure https://boxd.it/2vtvl3 Tokyo Fist https://boxd.it/1cSq9R

 Calvin Kemph Inside Out: Learning to Feel Again https://thetwingeeks.com/2020/03/30/inside-out-learning-to-feel-again/ 

Don’t Look Up: It’s the End of the World as we Know it and the Movie Isn’t Fine https://thetwingeeks.com/2021/12/07/dont-look-up/ 

Zebra/Vaugh - Riki-Oh https://boxd.it/2XifKB 

Kimi https://boxd.it/2A44IT 

Ben - Drive My Car https://boxd.it/2BpeQz 

Silence https://boxd.it/28Mnkd

 Stephen Gillespie Incendies https://boxd.it/1WRwdd 

Babe Pig in the City https://youtu.be/NuZOP5izbOs

 Another Round https://boxd.it/1NJXSl

Stephen talks to Froo about their experiences writing about cinema. Froo has a distinct way of responding to cinema through words, and their personality shines through in every review. This is a refreshing and personal discussion with one of the website's best writers, make sure to seek out their writing! 

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On this episode of Ki-no thanks, Jack and Stephen are joined by Josh to talk about United Passions, the FIFA propaganda movie that... isn't very good! Josh helps to contextualise this film, what it is trying to do, how it fails, and who any of these people even ARE. Sam Neil, Tim Roth, and the incomparable Gérard Depardieu, what could possibly go wrong? Offside. Red card. Own goal. Just another pitiful movie from the Letterboxd anti-250! 

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Stephen is joined by The Twin Geeks writer and editor David Punch on another episode of A Note From The Author. Today, Stephen and David discuss David's history with writing, how he approaches writing about cinema with contextual and historical aspects in mind, and how and why he crafts thoughtful studies on film the way he does. 

You can find David's writing on The Twin Geeks website and his own personal Letterboxd page, you can also hear from David on The Twin Geeks Podcast.

If you're a film critic or writer and have an interest in conversing with Stephen about your process, feel free to email an expression of interest to [email protected]. 

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An update on everything Stephen and Jack have been watching, reading, listening to, and playing! Today we talk about John Waters, Jean-Luc Godard, Diablo, Capitalist Realism, A Talking Mule, and many many other things!

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Stephen returns for the second instalment of his A Note From The Author series, this time talking with I'm Thinking Of Spoiling Things co-host and The Twin Geeks writer Zebra! Listen to this episode to hear Zebra and Stephen dissect Zebra's approach to writing about film, how his process has developed, and the ways in which he tries to convey his response to cinema through writing. 

You can follow Zebra and his writing on both Letterboxd and Twitter. 

You can also hear more from Zebra on the I'm Thinking Of Spoiling Things podcast he runs with the STACKS' very own Stephen!

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Do the arctic shake! On this episode of KI-NO THANKS we talk to our good buddy Calvin about the arctic housing crisis, twerking bears, weird twitter accounts and Rob Schneider/Roy Scheider. That's right, it's NORM OF THE NORTH!

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We're starting our own collection of important and influential movies, the STACKS Selection. The first title HAD to be Babe: Pig In The City, directed by George Miller. Check out the video essay on our Youtube channel. Stay tuned for more!

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