The Stacks

A podcast exploring an absurd physical media collection.

The Stacks is a tv podcast hosted by Unknown Host, with 265 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80.

Unknown Host hosts The Stacks, a tv show with 265 episodes published.

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  Episode #265

  Episode 260 - Light the Fuse... Sartana Is Coming! + more

  Sep 29, 20263h 17m

  This week on The Stacks, in part one (0:00-1:38:01), we talk about the concluding film in the Sartana spaghetti western series, Giuliano Carnimeo's 1970 picture, Light the Fuse... Sartana Is Coming, in addition to "Red in the Face" - the seventh episode of Mad Men's first season. In part two (1:38:02-2:23:55) we talk in shorter form about 8 additional features: Martin Scorsese's legendary 1980 sports biopic Raging Bull, the 1988 Penny Marshall wish-fulfilment comedy Big, Abel Ferrara's 1993 army base-set version of Body Snatchers, Tim Burton's 1988 gothic comedy breakthrough Beetlejuice, Martin Scorsese's 1978 music documentary The Last Waltz, the bleak 1980 Brian G. Hutton police procedural The First Deadly Sin, the 1967 Ishiro Honda Rankin/Bass / Tsuburaya tokusatsu collab King Kong Escapes, and the 1994 Paul Flaherty evil kid comedy Clifford. 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/

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  Episode #264

  Episode 259 - Gentlemen Prefer Blondes + more

  Sep 22, 20262h 49m

  This week on The Stacks, in part one (0:00-1:23:15), we talk about the classic 1953 Howard Hawks musical Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (starring Marilyn Monroe and Jane Russell), in addition to "Babylon" - the sixth episode of Mad Men. In part two (1:23:16-2:09:38) we chat in shorter form about 7 additional features: the 2014 Paco Cabezas Nic Cage Takensploitation film Rage (aka Tokarev), Steven Spielberg's 2016 animated Roald Dahl adaptation The BFG, the silly 1976 James Frawley disaster movie parody The Big Bus, 1961 Robert Rossen pool shark bummer classic The Hustler, the ridiculous 1989 Andrei Konchalovsky buddy action comedy Tango & Cash, the 2014 Adam Wingard super-soldier quasi-slasher The Guest, and the 1977 Martin Scorsese New Hollywood musical New York, New York. 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/

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  Episode #263

  Episode 258 - Fando y Lis + more

  Sep 15, 20263h 4m

  This week on The Stacks, in part one (0:00-1:27:46), we talk about Alejandro Jodorowsky's 1961 surrealist debut Fando y Lis, in addition to "5G" - the fifth episode of Mad Men. In part two (1:27:47-2:29:31) we chat in shorter form about 9ish additional features: Michael G. Heagle's satirical 1989 SOV slasher short Toga Party Massacre, Léonard Keigel's 1970 magical realist mystery Qui? (aka The Sensuous Assassin), Scott Walker's 2013 true crime picture The Frozen Ground, Norman Apstein's low budget kid-horror Ice Cream Man, Simon Glassman's 2025 Backrooms-adjacent ad-horror Buffet Infinity, a furry-casting for Martin Scorsese's 1976 classic Taxi Driver, the 2009 Graham Reznick 3D POV horror short The Viewer, Tony Scott's 1998 paranoia thriller Enemy of the State, Steven Spielberg's 2015 based-on-fact Cold War film Bridge of Spies, Frank LaLoggia's painterly 1988 gothic horror Lady in White, and Carl Schultz's shaggy 1983 Gold Coast conspiracy procedural Goodbye Paradise. 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/

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  Episode #262

  Episode 257 - Hell's Bloody Devils + more

  Sep 8, 20263h 17m

  This week on The Stacks, in part one (0:00-1:22:19), we talk about the (circa) 1970 Al Adamson biker intrigue patchwork Hell's Bloody Devils, in addition to "New Amsterdam" - the fourth episode of Mad Men. In part two (1:22:20-2:37:15) we chat in shorter form about 8ish additional features: Teruo Ishii's brisk 1993 v-cinema entry Hitman: Blood Smells Like Roses, the peculiar 1985 Hoite C. Caston-directed and Peter Billingsley-starring children's film The Dirt Bike Kid, the 2026 Kane Parsons liminal horror film Backrooms, Barry Levinson's 1994 Michael Crichton 'what if a man was sexually harassed by a woman?' tech-thriller novel adaptation Disclosure, Martin Scorsese's 1973 New Hollywood romance / road picture Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, the 1994 Steve Miner remake of Gerard Depardieu's weird coming-of-age comedy My Father the Hero, James Bryan's 1984 goofballs biker movie Hell Riders, the 7th and 8th episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 5 ("Unification" parts one and two), and Steven Spielberg's 2012 historical epic Lincoln. 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/

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  Episode #261

  Episode 256 - The River's Edge + more

  Sep 1, 20262h 58m

  This week on The Stacks, in part one (0:00-1:19:30), we talk about the 1957 Allan Dwan desert noir The River's Edge, in addition to "The Marriage of Figaro" - the third episode of Mad Men. In part two (1:19:31-2:16:56) we chat in shorter form about 8 additional features: Fernando Trueba's 1989 weird erotic thriller The Mad Monkey (aka Twisted Obsession), the Ultimate Cut of Zack Snyder's 2009 comic adaptation Watchmen, Joseph-Gordon Levitt's 2013 sole directorial feature Don Jon, the 2017 Steven C. Miller DTV Nic Cage sequel Arsenal, Rob Cohen's 2002 Vin Diesel extreme sports spy film xXx, the 1996 John Woo action blockbuster Broken Arrow, the 1981 Oliver Stone psychological horror film The Hand, and Martin Scorsese's 1973 breakthrough picture Mean Streets. 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/

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