We're back after a week off with the second film in the original Zatoichi series, Tale of Zatoichi Continues (1962, directed by Kazuo Mori) and Avery Crounse's important folk horror film Eyes of Fire (1983).

As always, the active Stacks list can be found at https://letterboxd.com/jshopa/list/the-stacks/

This week we have an accidentally thematic pairing, with j. and Shana discussing Spike Jonze's 2002 film Adaptation and Mark Savage's 1997 psychotronic shot-on-video picture The Masturbating Gunman.

(This will be followed by a week off, due to illness)

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

On this week's episode, Shana and j. talk about Blood & Flesh: The Reel Life and Ghastly Death of Al Adamson (2019, directed by David Gregory) and Stanley Kubrick's (now) well-loved 1980 film adaptation of The Shining.

As always, The Stacks list is live at https://letterboxd.com/jshopa/list/the-stacks/

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/

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/

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/

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").

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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/

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/

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/