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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JD DeLuzio > Richard WillisJuly 30, 2025 at 7:21am
I haven't seen The Trial of Billy Jack, but in Born Losers, Billy makes common cause with the local police, even if they have some issues. In Billy Jack, the town authorities mostly oppose him (and are mostly evil), but we have one cop who sympathatizes somewhat with him, and we have scenes of some of the townsfolk becoming more open to the school. Honestly, the improv scenes with the kids and the townies are some of the best things in this movie.
I developed my post into a sort-of review here. That "Coven" album is.... disturbing.
JD DeLuzio > Richard WillisJuly 31, 2025 at 7:25am
I don’t think (I may be wrong) that he is said to have been a Green Beret in the later movies.
This is also mentioned in Billy Jack. I don't know about the subsequent movies, because I've never seen them, but I assume*, after two movies, it must be viewed as integral to the character's past.
*Tricky at the best of times. Doubly tricky with film continuity. Double-dogly tricky with low-budget film continuity.
I'm sure most of y'all know that there was a mural in the Hall of Justice in Superman that depicted a lot of obscure DC heroes. Here's a list. As Jack Kirby would say, there's a lot of "weirdies" in there!
The Amateur - This is a remake from a film in the 1980s, which I had never heard of. Starring Rami Malek as a CIA code breaker whose wife is killed in England during a "terrorist" attack. he blackmails the CIA to give him training so he can kill her killers himself. Not a bad little movie. Always nice to see Laurence Fishburne, but a little hard to make him believable as a badass when he is well into his 60s.
SPEEDWAY (1968): Whenever I'm in the mood to watch a movie and can't decide on one, an Elvis movie or Godzilla usually turns the trick. In addition to Elvis, Speedway also features Nancy Sinatra, Bill Bixby and Gale Gordon.
LIVE A LITTLE, LOVE A LITTLE (1968): Another Elvis flick (obviously). Like King Creole, this one is based on a book, specifically Kiss My Firm But Pliant Lips, a 1965 novel by Dan Greenburg. King Creole is one of the best Elvis movies, but Live aLittle, Love a Little is typicl of the genre (yes, "Elvis" is a genre unto himself). I'm sure the screewriters changed it quite a bit, bit I'd really be interested in reading this one.
On August 14, TCM will be showing Zero Hour (1957). For those of us who love the hilarious Airplane (1980), I recommend watching Zero Hour and also Airport 1975 (1974), because Airplane combines large chunks of both movies, sometimes word for word! You’ll be glad you did.
In the last year or so I became aware of the comic title A Date with Judy, a kind of Archie Andrews story, except it revolves around blonde teen Judy instead of a boy. I was surprised this week by a TCM movie from 1948 by the same name starring a 19-ish Jane Powell as Judy and a 16-ish Elizabeth Taylor as Judy’s boyfriend’s sister. Miss Taylor will knock your eye out at 16.
It turns out that A Date with Judy was solidly popular on the radio, TV and the DC comic (plus the movie) from 1941 to 1960. The movie is available on TCM Streaming until August 16. The Wikipedia article will provide more information. I haven’t watched the movie yet, but here is the TRAILER.
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I haven't seen The Trial of Billy Jack, but in Born Losers, Billy makes common cause with the local police, even if they have some issues. In Billy Jack, the town authorities mostly oppose him (and are mostly evil), but we have one cop who sympathatizes somewhat with him, and we have scenes of some of the townsfolk becoming more open to the school. Honestly, the improv scenes with the kids and the townies are some of the best things in this movie.
I developed my post into a sort-of review here. That "Coven" album is.... disturbing.
I don’t think (I may be wrong) that he is said to have been a Green Beret in the later movies.
This is also mentioned in Billy Jack. I don't know about the subsequent movies, because I've never seen them, but I assume*, after two movies, it must be viewed as integral to the character's past.
*Tricky at the best of times. Doubly tricky with film continuity. Double-dogly tricky with low-budget film continuity.
I'm sure most of y'all know that there was a mural in the Hall of Justice in Superman that depicted a lot of obscure DC heroes. Here's a list. As Jack Kirby would say, there's a lot of "weirdies" in there!
Instead of Hugo Danner, maybe it's Iron Munro.
The Amateur - This is a remake from a film in the 1980s, which I had never heard of. Starring Rami Malek as a CIA code breaker whose wife is killed in England during a "terrorist" attack. he blackmails the CIA to give him training so he can kill her killers himself. Not a bad little movie. Always nice to see Laurence Fishburne, but a little hard to make him believable as a badass when he is well into his 60s.
SPEEDWAY (1968): Whenever I'm in the mood to watch a movie and can't decide on one, an Elvis movie or Godzilla usually turns the trick. In addition to Elvis, Speedway also features Nancy Sinatra, Bill Bixby and Gale Gordon.
LIVE A LITTLE, LOVE A LITTLE (1968): Another Elvis flick (obviously). Like King Creole, this one is based on a book, specifically Kiss My Firm But Pliant Lips, a 1965 novel by Dan Greenburg. King Creole is one of the best Elvis movies, but Live a Little, Love a Little is typicl of the genre (yes, "Elvis" is a genre unto himself). I'm sure the screewriters changed it quite a bit, bit I'd really be interested in reading this one.
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Hey, it's available on Amazon!
On August 14, TCM will be showing Zero Hour (1957). For those of us who love the hilarious Airplane (1980), I recommend watching Zero Hour and also Airport 1975 (1974), because Airplane combines large chunks of both movies, sometimes word for word! You’ll be glad you did.
I saw it last year! It's like watching an alternate reality!
In the last year or so I became aware of the comic title A Date with Judy, a kind of Archie Andrews story, except it revolves around blonde teen Judy instead of a boy. I was surprised this week by a TCM movie from 1948 by the same name starring a 19-ish Jane Powell as Judy and a 16-ish Elizabeth Taylor as Judy’s boyfriend’s sister. Miss Taylor will knock your eye out at 16.
It turns out that A Date with Judy was solidly popular on the radio, TV and the DC comic (plus the movie) from 1941 to 1960. The movie is available on TCM Streaming until August 16. The Wikipedia article will provide more information. I haven’t watched the movie yet, but here is the TRAILER.
A Date with Judy - Wikipedia
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