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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I meant to record On the Waterfront yesterday but forgot. When Tracy got home I asked her if she'd ever seen it and she replied, "Yes, with you." When I asked her about The Wild One and A Streetcar Named Desire she said, "Yes, you made me watch those, too." On that note...
GASLIGHT (1944): I recorded this last week but didn't get around to watching it until tonight. Although I have had the opportunity to watch it several times since the term fell into the popular vernacular, I never saw it until tonight. Seven Oscar nominations, two wins.
I’ve seen this several times, this time on the Svengoolie show. It never fails to impress, especially considering they had to use miniatures and what we now call “practical effects.” My family moved from Los Angeles, in the same 1953 as the movie, to the then-unincorporated town of Puente. The housing development had just stopped being citrus groves. I enjoy that the script tosses around the real city names Pomona and Corona. They drop the A-bomb on the Puente Hills, where I would later run around.
Amy (2015): famous documentary (which I had not seen until now) about the rise, decline, and fall of Amy Winehouse. It's a disturbing journey from which I coud not turn away.
"A Friend of Dorothy" (2024): Charming Oscar-nominated short film starring Stephen Fry and long-time character actor Miriam Margolyes in the story of a friendship that develops between a young gay man and a wealthy but shut-in elderly woman.
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"Hey, Johnny, what're you rebelling against?" "Wadda ya got?"
I meant to record On the Waterfront yesterday but forgot. When Tracy got home I asked her if she'd ever seen it and she replied, "Yes, with you." When I asked her about The Wild One and A Streetcar Named Desire she said, "Yes, you made me watch those, too." On that note...
"Ladies and gentlemen... DUELING BRANDOS."
God, I remember when that was first broadcast, half a century ago.
GASLIGHT (1944): I recorded this last week but didn't get around to watching it until tonight. Although I have had the opportunity to watch it several times since the term fell into the popular vernacular, I never saw it until tonight. Seven Oscar nominations, two wins.
The War of the Worlds (1953)
I’ve seen this several times, this time on the Svengoolie show. It never fails to impress, especially considering they had to use miniatures and what we now call “practical effects.” My family moved from Los Angeles, in the same 1953 as the movie, to the then-unincorporated town of Puente. The housing development had just stopped being citrus groves. I enjoy that the script tosses around the real city names Pomona and Corona. They drop the A-bomb on the Puente Hills, where I would later run around.
last week I watched the latest Predator movie, Predatror: Badlands it was alright. I did like that they truly tied it to the Aliens lore as well.
Amy (2015): famous documentary (which I had not seen until now) about the rise, decline, and fall of Amy Winehouse. It's a disturbing journey from which I coud not turn away.
"A Friend of Dorothy" (2024): Charming Oscar-nominated short film starring Stephen Fry and long-time character actor Miriam Margolyes in the story of a friendship that develops between a young gay man and a wealthy but shut-in elderly woman.
Naked Ambition (2026): interesting account of the life, work, and influence of BunnyYeager, pin-up girl turned hugely influential pin-up photographer, then forgotten woman turned art-world star.
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