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Invasion of the Bee Girls is the subject of this Sunday's "monsterdon" watch party over on Mastodon, our fediverse sibling!

• Just start watching that movie this Sunday, Jan 19, 2025 at 9pm ET / 8pm CT / 6pm PT, which is 2am Monday UTC
• and follow #monsterdon over on mastodon for live commentary. For example, you can follow that hashtag here: https://mastodon.social/tags/monsterdon
• I usually open two web browser windows on a laptop side-by-side. But you could follow the mastodon commentary on a phone app while watching it on TV or something...

How to watch:

• someone usually streams it on https://miru.miyaku.media/ at that time so check there
• archive: https://archive.org/details/invasion-of-the-bee-girls-1973_202406
• tubi: https://tubitv.com/movies/100013352/invasion-of-the-bee-girls I'm still figuring out tubi. it's corporate and not available in EU or Asia, but uBlock currently stops ads (there's just a flicker when they try to load). Their copy seems to be missing 2+ minutes, so it may have been modified
• youtube WARNING: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1FaWxV4sjk WARNING: heavily censored, missing 20 minutes, only watch if nothing else works
• if you want to pay or watch ads and are in the US, look here: https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/invasion-of-the-bee-girls

The premise of the movie is that a mad scientist (Ford) is using radiation-mutated bee serum to create an army of female beauties who seduce men to death. One by one, the male victims are killed before the local police catch on to the plans of the infected females.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasion_of_the_Bee_Girls

Also see this community's previous discussion of this movie! (e: that has a much higher-quality version of the movie poster...)

context: https://www.lambiek.net/artists/w/wilson_s_clay.htm (NSFW)

"Every 1's a Winner" is the third single from the 1978 Hot Chocolate album of the same name. The single was released on 4 March 1978 on RAK Records in the UK and Infinity Records in the US. It peaked at number 12 on the UK Singles Chart and number 6 on the US Billboard Hot 100; it was the band's second-highest-charting single in the US, behind "You Sexy Thing".[3][4]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Every_1%27s_a_Winner_(song)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLb9AiTk-YY

Battle Beyond the Stars is the subject of this Sunday's "monsterdon" viewing over on Mastodon, our fediverse sibling!

• Just start watching that movie this Sunday, Jan 12, 2025 at 9pm ET / 8pm CT / 6pm PT, which is 2am Monday UTC
• and follow #monsterdon over on mastodon for live commentary. For example, you can follow that hashtag here: https://mastodon.social/tags/monsterdon
• I usually open two web browser windows on a laptop side-by-side. But you could follow the mastodon commentary on a phone app while watching it on TV or something...

How to watch:

• youtube (upscaled): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JD0tIQMwtmk
• archive: https://archive.org/details/battle-beyond-the-stars-1980
• someone usually streams it on https://miru.miyaku.media/ at that time so maybe check there
• if you want to pay or watch ads, look here: https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/battle-beyond-the-stars

it was intended as a futuristic "Magnificent Seven (itself a western version of Seven Samurai) in outer space",[13] ... The film was theatrically released by Corman's New World Pictures and was a moderate box office success, despite receiving mixed reviews from critics.

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Battle Beyond the Stars received mixed reviews from critics due to its similar space opera styling, capitalizing upon the success of Star Wars. Cameron's special effects were praised as being impressive, considering the film's low budget, and helped to open the door for his future success.

In Creature Feature, John Stanley gave the movie three and a half stars, recommending the film for its fun script, special effects and its spirit of fun.[35] Filmink called it one of George Peppard's "best ever films" in which his performance was "warm, funny, touching… this sort of performance was why Peppard remained employed, for all his issues."[36]

Christopher John reviewed Battle Beyond the Stars in Ares Magazine #5:

There is a lot to be pointed up in this picture. There is the fact that every different technology shows different lines of development. Every ship and the way it is operated is distinctly unique.[37]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_Beyond_the_Stars

Also see previous discussion of this film in this community!

Devil Girl from Mars is the subject of this Sunday's "monsterdon" viewing over on Mastodon, our fediverse sibling!

• Just start watching that movie this Sunday, Jan 5, 2025 at 9pm ET / 8pm CT / 6pm PT, which is 2am Monday UTC
• and follow #monsterdon over on mastodon for live commentary. For example, you can follow that hashtag here: https://mastodon.social/tags/monsterdon
• I usually open two web browser windows on a laptop side-by-side but you could follow the mastodon commentary on your phone while watching it on TV or something...

How to watch:

• someone claims they'll be streaming it on https://miru.miyaku.media/ at that time
• you can probably find it on a streaming service? someone said it was on tubi and that adblock worked on tubi but I dunno what tubi is.
• Here are a bunch of free youtube uploads:
• colorized? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TA83HKMFpow
• black-n-white https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXMm8TclN6Y
• black n white https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvp6Hfkmbes
• black n white https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4Q0w0kldsI

A female alien is sent from Mars to acquire human males to replace their declining male population. When negotiation, then intimidation, fails she must use force to obtain co-operation from a remote Scottish village where she has landed her crippled flying saucer.

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Rolling Stone columnist Doug Pratt called Devil Girl from Mars a "delightfully bad movie". The "acting is really bad and the whole thing is so much fun you want to run to your local community theatre group and have them put it on next, instead of Brigadoon."[11]

American film reviewer Leonard Maltin said the film is a "hilariously solemn, high camp British imitation of U.S. cheapies".[12]

Filmink called it "bonkers fun".[13]

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The film inspired Hugo and Nebula award-winning author Octavia E. Butler to begin writing science fiction. After watching the motion picture at age 12, she declared that she could write something better.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devil_Girl_from_Mars

... a 1968 Italian–Spanish Western film directed by Enzo G. Castellari. Chuck Connors headlines an ensemble cast ...

The story centers around a gang of robbers, whose boss (Connors) is tasked by a Confederate captain (Wolff) with stealing gold from a Union fort, before wiping out all of his men to save on their share of the booty. The film has earned notice as one of the genre's most action-oriented examples.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kill_Them_All_and_Come_Back_Alone

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AECq-28mTDA - the link from above, blocked in Austria, Germany, Spain, France, Italy.

found on: https://acebackwordsphotos.wordpress.com/2023/08/18/12362/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ace_Backwords

his current blog about living on the streets: https://acebackwords5.wordpress.com/

"Millie Pulled a Pistol on Santa" has been one of the most widely discussed tracks from De La Soul Is Dead. It has been described by AllMusic as one of "the album's most powerful moments", and by Rolling Stone as a "tour de force" that "summon[s] its power through the subtle use of metaphor".[1][2] Retrospective reviews have also identified the song as one of the most prominent examples of De La Soul's exploration of darker topics on De La Soul Is Dead as compared to the group's previous work.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millie_Pulled_a_Pistol_on_Santa/Keepin%27_the_Faith

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNKxetTrdJk

Hey @friendless@lemmy.blahaj.zone - did you find anyone else to hang out with?

Hey @iii@mander.xyz - what are your thoughts about Christmas on this fine day?

Hey @Platypus@lemmings.world - you said you'd be around today, what are you up to?

Personally, I might make a big pot of spaghetti later on. My cousin said they might pass by at some point but no guarantees. If I don't find anyone to talk to online, I'll probably just watch some free movies and game.

On the 19th of May 2016, an Airbus A320 en route from Paris to Cairo disappeared from radar at cruising altitude over the Mediterranean Sea, spiraling to its doom from 37,000 feet until it was dashed against the night-black water. What caused the loss of the EgyptAir flight and its 66 occupants should have been uncovered by a straightforward inquiry, but instead, the case quickly evolved into one of the more unnerving and unnecessary mysteries of 21st century aviation. The problem wasn’t that investigators couldn’t find the cause — it was that not all of them seemingly wanted to.

Four months into the Egyptian-led investigation, Egyptian and French experts erupted into a public dispute over whether the crash was an accident at all. Was EgyptAir flight 804 brought down by a bomb, as Egypt announced, or had a fire erupted in the cockpit, as French investigators still believed? Before the question could be properly resolved, the investigation was taken out of the hands of the accident investigators, and the regular updates suddenly fell silent. And for eight years, the crash remained an uncomfortable mystery.

That is, until now.

In October 2024, Egypt unexpectedly released a 663-page final report containing not only its own arguments in favor of an intentional explosion, but also a nearly complete French report arguing for a cause that was totally different — and frankly much scarier. Although not everything contained in this massive release is convincing, and some of it appears to be plainly untrue, these two reports contain a treasure trove of previously unseen evidence that nevertheless sheds a substantial amount of light on what happened on that fateful night over the Mediterranean, and a careful reading reveals a probable story of the demise of flight 804 — a story that can now be told for the very first time.

https://admiralcloudberg.medium.com/masks-smoke-and-mirrors-the-untold-story-of-egyptair-flight-804-42c788fcac2d

Snowbeast (1977) is the subject of today's "monsterdon" viewing over on Mastodon, our fediverse sibling!

• Just start watching Sunday, Dec 22, 2024 at 9pm ET / 8pm CT / 6pm PT, which is 2am Monday UTC
• and follow #monsterdon over on mastodon for live commentary.
• I usually open two web browser windows side-by-side but you could follow the mastodon commentary on your phone while watching it on TV or something...

How to watch:

• youtube (unrestricted?): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9fwRPdsOFA
• another youtube (unrestricted?): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkND4P1oGHk
• also free on "tubi"? "crackle"? "plex"? dunno what those are, I think they have ads...
• someone claims they'll be streaming it on https://miru.miyaku.media/ at that time

NOTE: this is the 1977 movie, but there's also a 2011 movie called "Snow Beast" so make sure you get the right one.

Snowbeast ... follows the story of a bloodthirsty Bigfoot-like monster terrorizing a ski resort in the Colorado Rockies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowbeast