This week on The Stacks, in part one (0:00-1:46:36), we talk about the John Landis action/comedy classic The Blues Brothers, in addition to the seventh episode of American Horror Story season 1 ("Open House") and furry-casting Speed Racer. In part two (1:46:38-3:18:10) we talk in shorter form about 8 features and 4 Christmas specials: the cursed and terrible Y2K Ron Howard remake of How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, the 1992 Chris Columbus Christmas sequel Home Alone 2: Lost in New York, the 1992 Brian Henson classic A Muppet Christmas Carol, Michael Cooney's 1997 video store seasonal slasher Jack Frost, the 1988 Richard Donner dark comedy update of A Christmas Carol, Scrooged, the widely-mocked 2024 S.J. Clarkson superhero movie Madame Web, the 2003 John Singleton franchise entry 2 Fast 2 Furious, and a revisit of the Wachowskis' still-underappreciated 2008 hyper-aesthetic anime sports movie Speed Racer, and four Rankin-Bass Christmas specials: Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town, The Year Without a Santa Claus, The Little Drummer Boy Book II, and Jack Frost. 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/