Saw a Takashi Miike picture called The Great Yokai War. "Yokai" is a Japanese term for monsters from folklore, as opposed to the more familiar kaiju. It's a kids' picture, about a young boy from Tokyo sent out to live in the countryside with his older sister and his intermittently senile grandfather. When a vengeful spirit appears, the boy gets caught up in a war between warring groups of yokai and must find his courage to become the "Kirin Rider", the hero who will set everything to rights. It's not a bad picture - nothing deep, but an amusing story. Some of the yokai are really trippy, Japanese folklore can get pretty "out there", apparently.
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Bring Me the Head of Dobie Gillis (1988), on YouTube.
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Sinners (2025): brilliant filmed, scored, and acted, I really like 75% of this strange cross-genre film by Ryan Coogler (Black Panther, Fruitvale Station). It became a little too conventional ACTION HORROR MOVIE at the end, but remained good, and needed, IMO, about three-quarters of its epilogues cut.
Bring Me the Head of Dobie Gillis (1988), on YouTube.
I only recently found out that this TV movie existed. It was produced by Dwayne Hickman (Dobie) and brings together the original regulars of the TV series, adding townspeople and younger generation actors for the plot. Thalia is recast as Connie Stevens since Tuesday Weld didn’t want the part. All of the actors did a good job even though the story is a little weak.
Despite having not watched more than an episode of the original series, I saw this when it aired.
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