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

Ninja is a 2009 American martial arts film directed by Isaac Florentine and starring Scott Adkins, Tsuyoshi Ihara and Mika Hijii. The film's plot revolves around an American martial artist named Casey Bowman, who is asked by his sensei to travel to New York City and protect the Yoroi Bitsu, an armored chest that contains the weapons of the last Kōga ninja.[1]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ninja_(film)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1182921/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85UxL-AJdpQ - available in the USA only, blocked in the rest of the world, すみません!

... 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.

Bloodfist is a 1989 American martial arts film directed by Terence H. Winkless, starring Don "The Dragon" Wilson (in his first feature starring role), Rob Kaman, Billy Blanks and Cris Aguilar. The plot sees an American former kickboxer travel to Manila, where he re-enters competition to avenge the murder of his brother and fellow fighter.[5]

The film takes the template established by previous tournament fighting films, especially the recent Bloodsport, and adds a whodunnit element to it.[6] While negatively received, it generated record profits for Concorde Pictures,[7] and kickstarted a long running franchise of increasingly unrelated sequels and spinoffs.[8] To bolster its credibility, Bloodfist listed the real-life martial arts credentials of its stars, not only on the poster but in the credits as well...

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

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwryEdv8WUE - the link from above; for some reason the video is blocked in Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Sri Lanka, Maldives, Nepal, and Pakistan
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdHqzH-Wp4o - might be another copy of this movie? you have to sign in to see it, so I dunno

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

https://mainlynorfolk.info/lloyd/songs/ajugofpunch.html

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

• Source: https://eastbaypunkda.com/s/east-bay-punk-digital-archive/item/6112
• about the author: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ace_Backwords
• author's blog: https://acebackwords5.wordpress.com/

Sicko is a 2007 American political documentary film by filmmaker Michael Moore. Investigating health care in the United States, the film focuses on the country's health insurance and the pharmaceutical industry. Moore compares the for-profit non-universal U.S. system with the non-profit universal health care systems of Canada, the United Kingdom, France and Cuba.

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On December 13, 2024, in the aftermath of the Killing of Brian Thompson, which renewed public criticism of the health insurance industry, Moore uploaded the entirety of Sicko to YouTube on his official channel,[13] arguing for health care reform as a "solution that does not involve any violence".

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