This week on The Stacks, in part one (0:00-1:58:51), we talk about P.T. Anderson's 1997 porn industry epic Boogie Nights, in addition to the fifth episode of American Horror Story season 1 (the conclusion of their "Halloween" two-parter) and furry/toon-casting Matrix Revolutions. In part two (1:58:52-3:15:04) we talk in shorter form about a great big pile of additional features, including 8 Christmas specials and 7 movies: the 1966 Chuck Jones animated classic How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, the 2025 Ethan Coen/Tricia Cooke picture Honey Don't!, the 1983 Burny Mattinson Disney special Mickey's Christmas Carol, the 2024 Morihito Inoue disaster movie satire Hot Spring Shark Attack, Hisayasu Sato's 1988 pinku-noir Love Letter in the Sand (better known as Pervert Ward: Torturing the White Uniform), a bunch of Rankin-Bass holiday specials (Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, Little Drummer Boy, Frosty the Snowman, Frosty's Winter Wonderland, and Rudolph's Shiny New Year), the 1983 Lam Nai-Choi Shaw Brothers action/crime drama Men From the Gutter, the 2001 Rob Cohen street-racing family film The Fast & The Furious, the 1990 Chris Columbus holiday classic Home Alone, the 1965 Bill Melendez Peanuts animated special A Charlie Brown Christmas, and the Wachowskis' 2003 trilogy conclusion Matrix Revolutions, concluding with our Coens rankings. In part three, we talk briefly about everything else we've watched since last time, and make our picks for next week.
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