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In the 1980s, there were only 63 Black films by, for, or about Black Americans. But in the 1990s, that number quadrupled, with 220 Black films making their way to cinema screens nationwide. What sparked this “Black New Wave?” Who blazed this path for contemporaries like Ava DuVernay, Kasi Lemmons and Jordan Peele? And how did these films transform American culture as a whole? Presenting The Class of 1989, a new limited-run series from pop culture critics Len Webb and Vincent Williams, hosts ...
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This week on The Stacks, in part one (0:00-1:53:44), we conclude our coverage of Twin Peaks: The Return with episodes 17 and 18, in addition to "Fire" - the twelfth episode of X-Files season one. In part two (1:53:44-3:06:04) we talk in shorter format about 8 additional features: the second season of Marvel's What If?, the 2023 Emma Seligman queer teen comedy/satire Bottoms, the fifth entry in the Police Academy franchise - Assignment Miami Beach - directed by Alan Myerson, Ronny Yu's 1998 Child's Play revival film Bride of Chucky, Sidney J. Furie's notorious 1987 Cannon flop Superman IV: The Quest for Peace, Shunichi Nagasaki's 1991 v-cinema stalker movie Stranger, J.J. Abrams' 2015 Star Wars franchise restarter, The Force Awakens, and Dan O'Bannon's 1989 revival / reclamation The Return of the Living Dead. In part three, as usual, we talk in brief about the other stuff we've watched since last time and make our picks for next week's episode.
The live list of The Stacks is online at https://letterboxd.com/jshopa/list/the-stacks/
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