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 > Jeff of Earth-JNovember 14, 2025 at 10:16pm
Good question! To be honest, I forgot that she was in the show. I never saw those episodes. More importantly, this creation was a 15 minute job, so I went with the first, best images that I could find of the characters. Wonder Woman was alone, while Isis was standing so close to Cindy Lee that it would have been a tremendous bother to edit her out.
Also, if you watch very closely, it does appear that the AI gives Cindy a third arm at one point. I figured that she would be the "human factor" in this hypothetical crossover, but perhaps she has some powers of which we were previously unaware.*
As for Cindy herself: unfortunately, they decided to write Cindy Lee out of the second and final season. Unlike Winger, Joanna Pang (yes, both women on the show were played by Joanna/JoAnna's) would have only a very short-lived movie/TV career. According to the web, she married in 1982, had one child, and has worked as a stage performer/ teacher.
*Hmm.... It also appears that Dyna Girl's arm physically passes through Electra Woman's body at one point.
I've also watched some docs recently, which I don't believe I've posted:
Secret Mall Apartment (2025): about the artists in Providence who built a secret apartment in a shopping mall and were not discovered for four years. The whole enterprise makes so much more sense.... and less... after seeing the doc. Also, frequently moving and hilarious. This one actually got played at the local art gallery, in a free showing sponsored by a local architects' group.
Perfect Neighbor (2025): Exploitive but revealing exploration of a notorious killing, comprised almost entirely of bodycam and other actual footage, with the filmmakers editing, certainly, but not directly commenting. A lot of revealing throwaway details as well: the parents try so hard to protect the fact that the neighbourhood kids actually go out and hang around with each other, run around, play games, and so forth, the cops think it’s great that the kids do this, while the kids themselves refer to the neighbourhood nuisance as "the Karen."
It's Only Life After All (2023): a great look back on the history of Indigo Girls, a band I have always really liked. I've only seen them in concert once, though I stumbled onto them playing a song and being interviewed for MuchMusic on Queen West, Toronto, somewhere in the 1990s. I'm clearly visible in the background of that clip which, alas, did not make the doc.
Is That Black Enough For You?!? (2022): Elvis Mitchell’s fascinating take on African-American cinema, with particular focus on the late 1960s-late 1970s, when there was an explosion of Black films of various kinds and qualities.
The Search: Manufacturing Belief (2019): introspective, wisely sceptical documentary about science, religion, awe, Cursillo, and the quest for truth. Recommended, especially in these times.
Bill Mumy November 19 at 6:51 AM · WAYBACK WEDNESDAY 2003 “IT’S STILL A GOOD LIFE” THE TWILIGHT ZONE. It was so great to return to the character of Anthony Fremont alongside the mighty Cloris Leachman and my fantastic daughter, Liliana, to make this sequel 40 years after the original! I think it can be found on YouTube. "It's Still a Good Life" is the thirty-first episode of the 2002 revival television series of The Twilight Zone. The episode was first broadcast on February 19, 2003, on UPN. It is a sequel to the original series episode "It's a Good Life". Bill Mumy and Cloris Leachman reprise their roles from the original episode. Anthony Fremont's daughter, Audrey, is played by actor Bill Mumy's real life daughter Liliana Mumy. It was written by Ira Steven Behr (based on characters created by Jerome Bixby), and directed by Allan Kroeker.
Yesterday I watched The Roses, a remake of War of the Roses from the 80s (With a dash of Mr. Mom). This was pretty bad. The leads of Benedict Cumberbatch and Olivia Colman were fine and their acting was good. I just had a hard time believing them as a married couple. I finally know what Kate McKinnon looks like, but I don't know if she can act because her character was so terrible. Allison Janney is in the opening credits, and is in only one scene. This is supposed to be a comedy and there was exactly one joke that made me laugh.
My wife and I watched Planes, Trains and Automobiles, a movie she'd never seen and I hadn't seen since I saw it in the theater 38 years ago. Still funny. But in one scene the Steve Martin character has to trade his watch for a motel room, and later checks his watch and remembers with chagrin that it's not there. Just a brief sight gag, which made me chuckle. But I wonder if anybody under the age of 30 would catch the gesture Martin made (swinging his arm up at the correct angle to pull his sleeve back in order to look at his wrist) and understand it if they did. No loss to Western civilization if they don't, but stuff like that is one reason These Kids Today™ can watch old classics like It Happened One Night or Casablanca and go, "eh, I didn't think it was that good." They can't appreciate it, because they don't understand the significance of most of the dialogue, the social mores, the sight gags, the subtext. Not because they're stupid or wrong, but because things have changed so much since the '80s that they simply don't get it. For my part, It Happened One Night is a pretty old movie (1934), and it certainly looked old to me when I watched it, probably 40 years or 50 years after it was made, but the world hadn't changed so much that I didn't get it. Old or not, the jokes landed, I understood the sexual tension, I knew what a "newspaper reporter" did, and so forth.
Excuse me, I must now go outside and chase some kids off my lawn.
I wonder if anybody under the age of 30 would catch the gesture Martin made...
I don't know... I understand people still make the "thumb and pinky" gesture when indicating a phone call.
...the significance of most of the dialogue, the social mores, the sight gags, the subtext.
Legend has it that the scene of Clark Gable muching on a carrot was the inspiration for Bugs Bunny.
JD DeLuzio > Jeff of Earth-JNovember 26, 2025 at 4:55pm
I was just talking to some kids on Monday (I substitute teach sometimes) who said that they still make the old-time "thumb and pinky" gesture when miming a phone, even though their phones don't work that way. It may survive, in the way that "ditto" has, or it may not.
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Good question! To be honest, I forgot that she was in the show. I never saw those episodes. More importantly, this creation was a 15 minute job, so I went with the first, best images that I could find of the characters. Wonder Woman was alone, while Isis was standing so close to Cindy Lee that it would have been a tremendous bother to edit her out.
Also, if you watch very closely, it does appear that the AI gives Cindy a third arm at one point. I figured that she would be the "human factor" in this hypothetical crossover, but perhaps she has some powers of which we were previously unaware.*
As for Cindy herself: unfortunately, they decided to write Cindy Lee out of the second and final season. Unlike Winger, Joanna Pang (yes, both women on the show were played by Joanna/JoAnna's) would have only a very short-lived movie/TV career. According to the web, she married in 1982, had one child, and has worked as a stage performer/ teacher.
*Hmm.... It also appears that Dyna Girl's arm physically passes through Electra Woman's body at one point.
I've also watched some docs recently, which I don't believe I've posted:
Secret Mall Apartment (2025): about the artists in Providence who built a secret apartment in a shopping mall and were not discovered for four years. The whole enterprise makes so much more sense.... and less... after seeing the doc. Also, frequently moving and hilarious. This one actually got played at the local art gallery, in a free showing sponsored by a local architects' group.
Perfect Neighbor (2025): Exploitive but revealing exploration of a notorious killing, comprised almost entirely of bodycam and other actual footage, with the filmmakers editing, certainly, but not directly commenting. A lot of revealing throwaway details as well: the parents try so hard to protect the fact that the neighbourhood kids actually go out and hang around with each other, run around, play games, and so forth, the cops think it’s great that the kids do this, while the kids themselves refer to the neighbourhood nuisance as "the Karen."
It's Only Life After All (2023): a great look back on the history of Indigo Girls, a band I have always really liked. I've only seen them in concert once, though I stumbled onto them playing a song and being interviewed for MuchMusic on Queen West, Toronto, somewhere in the 1990s. I'm clearly visible in the background of that clip which, alas, did not make the doc.
Is That Black Enough For You?!? (2022): Elvis Mitchell’s fascinating take on African-American cinema, with particular focus on the late 1960s-late 1970s, when there was an explosion of Black films of various kinds and qualities.
The Search: Manufacturing Belief (2019): introspective, wisely sceptical documentary about science, religion, awe, Cursillo, and the quest for truth. Recommended, especially in these times.
I have Frankenstein on my to-watch list. Also the Fantastic Four, which just became available on Disney+.
Bill Mumy's Facebook post from earlier this week.
Bill Mumy
November 19 at 6:51 AM
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WAYBACK WEDNESDAY 2003 “IT’S STILL A GOOD LIFE” THE TWILIGHT ZONE.
It was so great to return to the character of Anthony Fremont alongside the mighty Cloris Leachman and my fantastic daughter, Liliana, to make this sequel 40 years after the original!
I think it can be found on YouTube.
"It's Still a Good Life" is the thirty-first episode of the 2002 revival television series of The Twilight Zone. The episode was first broadcast on February 19, 2003, on UPN. It is a sequel to the original series episode "It's a Good Life". Bill Mumy and Cloris Leachman reprise their roles from the original episode. Anthony Fremont's daughter, Audrey, is played by actor Bill Mumy's real life daughter Liliana Mumy. It was written by Ira Steven Behr (based on characters created by Jerome Bixby), and directed by Allan Kroeker.
I just watched it on YouTube. It was great.
The Twilight Zone Season 1, Episode 31 It's Still a Good Life
That was well worth watching. Thanks for bringing it to my attention.
As is tradition, when I remember it, Planes, Trains, and Automobiles. The best Thanksgiving movie of all-time. And damn funny any time of year.
Yesterday I watched The Roses, a remake of War of the Roses from the 80s (With a dash of Mr. Mom). This was pretty bad. The leads of Benedict Cumberbatch and Olivia Colman were fine and their acting was good. I just had a hard time believing them as a married couple. I finally know what Kate McKinnon looks like, but I don't know if she can act because her character was so terrible. Allison Janney is in the opening credits, and is in only one scene. This is supposed to be a comedy and there was exactly one joke that made me laugh.
Pretty much 100% predictable Hollywood garbage.
My wife and I watched Planes, Trains and Automobiles, a movie she'd never seen and I hadn't seen since I saw it in the theater 38 years ago. Still funny. But in one scene the Steve Martin character has to trade his watch for a motel room, and later checks his watch and remembers with chagrin that it's not there. Just a brief sight gag, which made me chuckle. But I wonder if anybody under the age of 30 would catch the gesture Martin made (swinging his arm up at the correct angle to pull his sleeve back in order to look at his wrist) and understand it if they did. No loss to Western civilization if they don't, but stuff like that is one reason These Kids Today™ can watch old classics like It Happened One Night or Casablanca and go, "eh, I didn't think it was that good." They can't appreciate it, because they don't understand the significance of most of the dialogue, the social mores, the sight gags, the subtext. Not because they're stupid or wrong, but because things have changed so much since the '80s that they simply don't get it. For my part, It Happened One Night is a pretty old movie (1934), and it certainly looked old to me when I watched it, probably 40 years or 50 years after it was made, but the world hadn't changed so much that I didn't get it. Old or not, the jokes landed, I understood the sexual tension, I knew what a "newspaper reporter" did, and so forth.
Excuse me, I must now go outside and chase some kids off my lawn.
I wonder if anybody under the age of 30 would catch the gesture Martin made...
I don't know... I understand people still make the "thumb and pinky" gesture when indicating a phone call.
...the significance of most of the dialogue, the social mores, the sight gags, the subtext.
Legend has it that the scene of Clark Gable muching on a carrot was the inspiration for Bugs Bunny.
I was just talking to some kids on Monday (I substitute teach sometimes) who said that they still make the old-time "thumb and pinky" gesture when miming a phone, even though their phones don't work that way. It may survive, in the way that "ditto" has, or it may not.
They also "dial" numbers.
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