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Law? Returns? Episode? What is this, the debut of "Where Are They Now: Jude Law Edition" on the network that has that contract to broadcast this show? I hope my DVR's Jude Law and/or Bizby Moomoo alert(s) was still set to RECORD ALL NEVER DELETE or some unlucky DVR is sleeping in the dog house tonight!

I've recently set out to listen to every Hollywood Handbook episode, starting with the very first. As of January 2016, the law of diminishing returns has not yet set in. Could you please tell me the exact episode in which it does?

this is adam's wife by the way. after watching this i adore her although i have a wife of my own and honestly, i've never been into collecting anything.

In the Scott pro-version they even talked about Scott letting Sean do the show. There is no Tony in that episode! Is there a Tony? Maybe Sean got cut, but got paid anyway?

Oh oops my bad! Yea, not as a replacement of our weekly things. I enjoyed seeing what weird holiday movies everyone dug up, thought we could keep it going on different ideas.

The Jude Law and / or Bizby Moomoo RECORD ALL NEVER DELETE setting comes factory installed on most devices. So unless SOMEONE turned it off...

Oh jeez. I thought you meant themed Musical Mondays. I was thinking you're really limiting our choices for musicals if they are themed.

I mean, the way I'm picturing it is there's no commitment. Just do it as you can. Certainly not to get in the way of HDTGM, Unspooled, Musical Mondays at all. No coordination, or rules. I enjoyed having Holiday movies to fill my time/mood in December and wanted to carry that on. Anyway I'll start a thread tomorrow if we do want to share any thoughts on films watched.

Okay, cool. I’ll just go ahead then. (Cinco, could you please edit the thread title?) I’ve been promising this one for two years. It’s time to watch some trash.

There's plenty to choose from still... I have noticed a whole mess of Clint Eastwood films on Amazon Prime I'm stoked to check out. I'd say, make the pick and if anything, we can adjust the 'watch by' date a week when we find out on Friday what's up for sure

I know Paul said that the next two weeks would be repeat episodes when Holiday in Handcuffs was posted (December 21st) which leads me to believe that the 11th will be the first new episode, and should be a mini-sode, but I'm not 100% positive about this at all lol.

I'm willing to theme some movie watching around westerns for the month! It's a little bit late notice, but Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid is streaming on HBO Go, but expiring tonight.

Even though nobody seemed super interested, my theme for January is going to be cowboy/westerns. Follow me on Letterboxd to see what movies I dig up. (I'm basing this off Unspooled's first two picks for January being westerns. I'm going all in this month.)

Right, that's what I think dates the commentary in this movie. I realize that at the time releasing a movie written and directed by people of color was virtually impossible in the American studio system, so this was the best you could get in 1967. But as I noted before: compare this to something like Do the Right Thing and the difference in approach is stark. In In the Heat of the Night, there is one black character who must stand in for all black people, surrounded by white characters who run the gamut; the movie's heart is in the right place, but it's definitely centralizing the white experience. In DTRT, there are multiple black characters coming from multiple perspectives to go along with a few white characters; to me there is a lot more to get out of this more decentralized perspective. And then given the racial commentary we saw just this past year out of filmmakers of color: Black Panter, BlacKKKlansman, Blindspotting, Sorry To Bother You, If Beale Street Could Talk . . . well, In the Heat of the Night feels quaint by comparison. Again, not bad, but quaint.

I was in the TSA line at the airport and I resounded the boys' commentary that, "you didn't ruins that enough buddy." They're still removing my shoes even though Adam proved they haven't stopped shit.

I'm 100% in agreement with Paul and Amy on this one. I think while it was an important film in 1967, it doesn't play to me today as a great film. I think it's on the borderline of top 100 and ultimately doesn't deserve to be on it, and I agree that at the very least, Beverly Hills Cop worked better as a police procedural. (Also, Foley has a reasonable explanation for why he didn't reveal he was a cop until later, since he's in LA to do police work. If Tibbs actually wanted to make that train, he could have flashed his badge a bit sooner and likely made it on time. But that might be a Titanic "the door was big enough for two" type of complaint, in that the badge was flashed at the right time for the plot to advance.) And the race stuff plays completely different to me today, too. Like Green Book, In the Heat of the Night is a film directed by a white male, off a screenplay written by a white male based on a story told by a white male. And like Green Book, I really felt like In the Heat of the Night seems today like it was made for white people to watch and congratulate themselves on not being racist. Now, Green Book is a bad movie (I think we can mostly agree on that), and In the Heat of the Night is nowhere near as toothless in its commentary, nor does it self-congratulate on its progressiveness as much as Green Book does, but I really resent it for pulling its punch a bit by having Tibbs momentarily obsessed with finding the most racist guy guilty, giving racist white dudes some "both sides" ammo. Anyway, all would be forgivable if this was a great movie, but I just don't think it is. Like Paul and Amy said, it feels like it's trying to figure out how to a great movie, but it's just not quite there. Paul and Amy were spot-on with their analysis of the music fills as feeling like 70s TV, and of Delores' monologue as being super absurd. But the best I can say about it is that it's not unenjoyable, and that Sidney Poitier is fucking awesome in it.

Sure, I'm all for them covering the AFI also-rans. But my feeling is that if Unspooled's mission to watch the all-time greats, the AFI list (or even a list of every American film ever made) barely scratches the surface. The BFI list isn't perfect, but I think it's much more representative of what cinema is — the podcast just doesn't seem complete without at least one dour movie from Sweden and a movie where a baby carriage goes down a flight of stairs.

this is what i thought they were doing the whole time. sometimes fake is fun - a haiku

This movie was clearly trying to be A Quiet Place. What it ends up being is a hybrid of that movie and The Happening.

OK, what do I do if I think I've stumbled on some tax fraud? https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5525742/?ref_=ttep_ep15 Comedy Bang! Bang! 5x15 Allison Janney Wears a Chambray Western Shirt and Suede Fringe Boots 11.11.16 Jessica McKenna, Sean Clements, Mike Hanford, Jessica Jean Jardine, Mike Mitchell Sean Clements ... (as) Tony Sean Clements has been a guest on Comedy Bang! Bang! the podcast as well as the TV show. --- I've watched this episode. I did not see a Tony. Did you see a Tony? I looked really really hard.

This all sounds amazingly reasonable.