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/

This week on The Stacks, in part one (0:00-1:33:33), we talk about Michelangelo Antonioni's 1961 classic of arthouse alienation, La Notte, in addition to the ninth episode of American Horror Story season 1 ("Spooky Little Girl"). In part two (1:33:34-2:39:44) we talk in shorter form about 8 additional features: Tim Burton's 1989 comic book adaptation blockbuster Batman, the 1984 Dennis Chiu Jan-Keung and Lee Tai-Hang Shaw Brothers horror Sex Beyond the Grave, the icy 2000 Takashi Ishii rape/revenge film Freeze Me, Kaizo Hayashi's 1995 Maiku Hama film Stairway to the Distant Past, the 1980 Ian Barry Ozploitation nuclear paranoia classic The Chain Reaction, the 1997 Jean-Pierre Jeunet franchise entry Alien: Resurrection, the 2006 Justin Lin entry, and the 1982 John Frankenheimer East-meets-West action-drama The Challenge. 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/

This week on The Stacks, in part one (0:00-1:40:18), we re-review the legendary Dan Aykroyd horror-comedy flop Nothing but Trouble, in addition to the eighth episode of American Horror Story season 1 ("Rubber Man"). In part two (1:40:19-3:06:56) we talk in shorter form about 6 additional features and 5 TV episodes: The April 22nd, 1978 episode of Saturday Night Live (featuring Steve Martin and The Blues Brothers), Hisayasu Sato's 1992 pink film An Aria on Gazes (AKA The Bedroom, among many other titles), Jon Turteltaub's 1992 iconic kid power picture 3 Ninjas, the terrible algorithmic Malcolm D. Lee 2021 legasequel Space Jam: A New Legacy, the "Christmas Log" episode of A Town Called Panic, the 1980 Emmett Alston first-wave slasher New Year's Evil, Alexandra Simpson's 2024 disaster-adjacent hangout drama No Sleep Till, several episodes of DC's Super Friends, and the 2001 Steven Spielberg sci-fi epic A.I.: Artificial Intelligence. In part three, we talk briefly about everything else we've watched since last time, and make our picks for next week, as we kick off our annual resolutions month.

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