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Black Lives Matter in Historical Perspective
Megan Ming Francis and Leah Wright-Rigueur
Parent Category: Slavery to Reparations
Category: Racial Reentrenchment and Neoslavery
Excerpted From: Megan Ming Francis and Leah Wright-Rigueur, Black Lives Matter in Historical Perspective, 17 Annual Review of Law and Social Science 441 (2021) (Literature List) (Full Document)
For more than three straight months during the spring and summer of 2020, thousands of protests and rebellions exploded across the country. More than 20 million people, of all races, from large cities to rural locales, marched and protested in a defiant display of public mourning and righteous rage, demanding accountability for the brazen murder of countless Black people at the hands of law enforcement. Their voices, their bodies, and their imaginations have awakened a sleepy nation to the crisis of democracy and the urgency of addressing deeply entrenched racial injustice.
At the peak of the summer 2020 protests, public opinion shifted dramatically on the side of the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement. A CNN (2020) poll showed that 84% of Americans believe racism is a "big problem" in our society. According to a Guardian/Opinium Research poll, 89% of respondents said that "police violence was a problem" and 65% considered it serious. And a Pew survey reported that 67% of Americans across racial groups expressed support for the "Black Lives Matter movement". This was in stark contrast to previous years, in which many Americans regularly debated the usefulness of the phrase Black Lives Matter. Perhaps the most important recent shift: Black protestors' calls to reimagine justice, defund the police, and reinvest in community programs--all of which were once considered radical ideas--have made their way into the mainstream of American public thought and action.
The significance of the BLM movement is undeniable. The movement, formed in 2013 after the hashtag #BlackLivesMatter went viral on social media, has now become the largest mass movement for racial justice in US history. The movement has transformed public understanding of the criminal punishment system, shifted the lexicon of justice, and amplified the liberatory imaginations of Black people. For the purposes of this article, it is important to emphasize that the dramatic protests that took place during 2020 were not solely about policing or the criminal punishment system. Violent policing was certainly the spark, but the tinder was the multiple systems that have failed Black people and rendered their lives disposable (Cohen 2010).
This review examines the literature surrounding the historic BLM movement, the emergence of which has shaken the foundations of the domestic and global order. Numerous firsthand accounts from activists on the ground document the origins of the movement and its growth over the years. Black journalists have provided valuable accountings of the intersection between movement activists and state authorities during key moments of struggle. Leading academics have contributed deeply researched analyses that situate the BLM movement alongside interlocking struggles to end structural racism, sexism, and capitalism. Finally, a growing body of legal scholarship examines the impact of BLM on lawyering and the practice of legal scholarship.
In this article, we focus less on examining the current iteration of the BLM movement and more on explicating the longer history of Black people organizing against state-sanctioned violence. As historic as the 2020 BLM protests have been, the issues highlighted therein are not new. The murder of Breonna Taylor in her private home while she was sleeping and the public-spectacle murder of George Floyd are not aberrations from a normal-functioning criminal punishment system. A central component of the Black freedom struggle has been the protection of Black lives from vigilante and state violence. State-sanctioned violence, Black people have articulated over and over again, is a constant. And yet, many scholarly accounts in the social sciences have overlooked the fight to protect Black lives in their overarching analysis of American political and legal institutions. Instead, scholars have often positioned de jure segregation (most often exemplified in the battle over segregated schools) as the central symbol of white supremacy; however, the key marker of white supremacy has always been the wanton exercise of violence by the state and by individuals protected by the state.
Of course, generations of Black activists have been forced to contend with the specter of racial violence as they have engaged in movement building. Numerous historical studies emphasize the persistence of white violence in undercutting civil rights gains. For political theorists, it is the violence of white democracy and an excavation of the struggles that will never render Black people as full citizens. We follow the lead of this important scholarship in documenting the impact of white violence on Black life and on US democracy. In addition, our aim is to account for how Black people have organized over time to contest state-sanctioned violence.
The history of Black protest reveals that the American state does not hold a monopoly on the use of force and that violent state projects can be transformed from the bottom up. Previous research has detailed the centrality of the antilynching fight to the origins of the Black freedom struggle. Another body of established research from political and legal historians focuses on Black urban rebellions in the 1960s in response to failed civil rights promises and increasing police violence. Although the antilynching struggle and the urban rebellions of the 1960s are not often situated along the same narrative arc, we understand these earlier battles focused on state-sanctioned violence as part of the historical genealogy of today's BLM movement. Specifically, research focused on key periods of Black resistance provides a longer lens through which to understand how Black people on the margins of society imagined a safer world and fought against considerable odds to protect their lives from state violence.
This article expands the aperture of how to understand the long fight to protect Black lives from state-sanctioned violence by bringing together research that has often existed on the margins of larger disciplines. Similar to the battle to desegregate public schools, the struggle has been frustratingly long, but unlike the school desegregation battle, the fight to protect Black lives from vigilante and state violence has often been submerged. Judging by the number of special issue journals and research grants that center on the protests emanating from the BLM protests of 2020, there will be a tremendous growth of social science scholarship on the BLM movement ecosystem. Yet, scholars would be wise to remember and engage with the existing research foundations of the contemporary movement; as we argue in this article, it is impossible to understand the protests and rebellions of 2020 without understanding what happened in 2015, 1992, 1968, 1964, 1919, 1909, and 1892.
The massive racial justice protests of 2020 matter both on their own and because they were shaped profoundly by what came before them. For instance, the fight around defunding the police did not suddenly emerge after the killing of George Floyd; it was built on a longer history of prisoner activism, largely unknown to the broader American public. Similarly, the present manifestation of the BLM movement cannot be understood without taking a much longer view. This article is not a comprehensive overview of all of the historical antecedents to the contemporary movement; it is, however, a critical highlight piece, illuminating a key number of foundational touch points. The long Black freedom struggle developed the political language, strategies, and organizing infrastructure that provided the backdrop for the present moment. In what follows, we describe this longer view by focusing on the formative period of the movement at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth century: Ida B. Wells's antilynching crusade and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People's (NAACP's) campaign against lynching and mob violence. The article then transitions toward the mid-1960s, during which the movement developed a specific articulation about police as perpetrators of anti-Black violence through the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP). But it is not just agenda setting; the 1960s provides a lesson about movement strategy in revealing the importance of decentralized leaders and the limits of reform tactics. Finally, we turn our attention to the formation of the contemporary BLM movement.
In the short time since the inception of the BLM movement, its impact on US politics has been "undeniable" (Taylor 2016). The BLM movement has shaken the foundations of how citizens understand their relationship to government and, in a few cases, shifted the actions of political elites. Through an institutional focus, BLM activists have drawn attention to the way discriminatory policing practices are intertwined with persisting housing segregation, racialized welfare state policies, and political reforms that criminalize poverty. In doing so, these protests have underscored the fragility of Black citizenship and the utter failure of American democracy for Black people--not just in the present but over the long durée of American history.
Historically, Black protest has served as a kind of testimony to the nation's most vulnerable, in its ability to expose the bankruptcy of a country that has failed repeatedly at offering equal justice and equality for all of its citizens. Ida B. Wells knew, the NAACP knew, the MFDP knew, and today's courageous protesters know: The system is not made to protect Black lives, and the only way Black people will survive is if they organize and create the conditions in which they can live. We have argued that the BLM movement cannot be explained properly without reference to this longer history. Accounts of BLM must account for the persisting pattern of Black death via violent white mobs, lynchings, and reckless law enforcement. Scholarship that focuses exclusively on the post-2013 manifestation of the BLM movement falters precisely because these accounts cannot explain the origins of the problem and the depths of anger and frustration of Black protesters.
Liberal democracy in the United States has often tried to hide anti-Black violence. The contradiction that state-sanctioned Black death creates is often too much for the liberal state to reconcile. Therefore, the challenge confronting Black activists, across time, who organize around state-sanctioned violence is to make visible that violence. The work of Ida B. Wells, the early NAACP, and the MFDP was centered around different strategies to hold the United States accountable for anti-Black violence. In doing so, the work of these freedom fighters and movements has provided an important organizing archive for current activists to draw upon and for scholars to attend to.
Departments of Political Science and Law, Societies & Justice, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98115, USA; email: meganmf@uw.edu
SNF Agora Institute and the Department of History, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21218, USA; email: lwrigh62@jhu.edu


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Movies A - Z
Junesploitation Day 1: Aliens!
It preys on human fear. It feeds on human flesh!
Posted by Patrick Bromley at 2:02 AM
Labels: alien movies, junesploitation 2017
J. M. Vargas June 1, 2017 at 2:11 AM
ALIEN! TWO-FER:
Luigi Cozzi's CONTAMINATION (1980, 95 min.) on Amazon Prime for the first time.
You can actually picture writer/director Cozzi seating in an Italian theater watching a double feature of Lucio Fulci's "Zombi 2" and Ridley Scott's "Alien" (both released a month apart in '79) and saying to himself 'Fuck it, I'll rip 'em both off and get the British guy from Fulci's flick to star in it.' And for the first act and conclusion (which mirror "Zombi 2" to a tee, right down to its "dead" boat entering NYC's harbor), "Contamination" is as gloriously batshit as you'd expect from an Earth-set movie with pulsating green eggs from outer space that turn those that touch it into imploding extras from a "Re-Animator" movie. Unfortunately the middle portion in M̶a̶t̶u̶l̶ ̶I̶s̶l̶a̶n̶d̶ Colombia (particularly the meant-to-be-tense 'egg in a bathroom' scene) drags big time, and only one of the four main actors (hint: the one without a penis) seems to give a crap about what they're doing. Who cares? When it's on its game "Contamination" rocks hard, and when it bores the God-awful dubbing is amusing enough to make you look forward to more Italian cheese later this month. EGGSPLOITATION! :-P
Ridley Scott's ALIEN: COVENANT (2017, 122 min.) in theaters for the first time.
If H.R. Giger's original alien/world designs were meant to imply phallic representations of penises penetrating cavernous vaginas, is there any other way to interpret "Alien: Covenant" but as a sign that soon-to-be-80-years-old Ridley Scott can't get it up anymore (creatively)? The second installment in the new "Alien" prequel trilogy would be a passable 'B' horror movie in its own right if it wasn't so damn pretentious. Quoting Shelley and Byron (who?), wrapping its 'monster on the loose' and grotesque torture scenes around the creation of life and having Michael Fassbender teaching himself to play the flute (a special effects/acting highlight reel) are poor substitutes for human characters we should care about and fear that the alien is coming after them... except we don't. I hated Elizabeth Shaw as a character in "Prometheus," but even she didn't deserve what was done to her in "Covenant." Except for Katherine Waterstone and Danny McBride, the human face of the "Alien" franchise now belongs to a mad robot. If 2017 Ridley Scott had made 1979's "Alien" Ash would have survived and Ripley gone up in flames. JUMP-THE-SPACE-TRUCK-SPLOITATION! ;-)
And Junesploitation! is on its way. Good times. :-)
Daniel Epler June 1, 2017 at 2:21 AM
I'm planning on checking out Contamination later today. Excited to watch it sometimes "rock hard"!
Watching a Roger Corman blatant Alien knock off with Sid Haig and Robert Englund seemed like a good way to ring in Junesploitation 2017. And boy it was! It really is quite the rip off, but while it is quite inferior, it just about makes up for that in sheer weirdness. The threat isn't simply an alien here, and what it is has the freedom to do some wacky things. You know, like giant caterpillar rape and people punching off their own arms. General stuff. ;) I enjoyed the practical effects that really do go wild in every way you want them to.
So happy the festivities have begun!
Lindsay June 1, 2017 at 3:38 AM
This movie does sound awesome! Perfect pick!
Ross June 1, 2017 at 4:52 AM
I started off my Junesploitation with that movie last year for Sci-Fi day. Indeed that is a great start. Some early James Cameron work as well.
TOMBARTMAN454@GMAIL.COM June 1, 2017 at 2:47 AM
Thus begins my month long movie service to gain citizenship. What a giant ball of fun this movie remains after all these years. Denise Richards is crazy cute in this movie and so many blood squibs and decapitated limbs. A great alternative title for this movie would have been Melrose Aliens.
Zach June 1, 2017 at 1:08 PM
When I caught the Rifftrax Live screening of this a few years ago I found myself becoming more invested in the flick than the riffing. This is one picture that's made for the big screen.
Dennis June 1, 2017 at 4:36 AM
Oh hell yeah
It's Xtro day!
But then again, isn't it always?
Dennis June 1, 2017 at 12:53 PM
I hink at least 10 of this months days Xtro would work for, maybe more
Actually started off my day (at midnight) watching Wonder Woman for work. Zero to do with aliens but worth mentioning at least as it fits in with my Junesploitation plan of movies starring women, and maybe at some point in the future we'll be looking back on Comicsploitation as a thing. Anyhow, aside from a few small nitpicks (running time and a lot of CGI action) I thought it was great.
About to start on my actual day 1 Junesploitation pick, Aliens 3: Assembly Cut now.
Alien 3: Assembly Cut (1992):
This is my first time revisiting the movie since it came out was well as my first time watching this cut of the movie. Such a talented group of people making this movie it's quite a shame that they lacked a few important things like a completed script. Still, this version is better than the theatrical cut at least and I could watch this cast do a 145 minute long Coors Light commercial if I had to (provided I didn't actually have to drink any Coors in the process). Also it was nice of every subsequent Alien movie to lower the bar so much that Alien 3 is now one of the higher points of the franchise
It's good to be starting Junesploitation and I'm going to try to get in a bonus movie of Harvest Lake if I have time before I go to work. It's 5:30am here now so I'm about to get some sleep.
Ross June 2, 2017 at 12:22 AM
Bonus movie: Harvest Lake (2016)
It's never explained but I guess this qualifies as an alien movie. I'm not sure how I feel about this movie, partly because it felt like the quality of the acting and the dialogue varied greatly from scene to scene. It never left me bored though and that last scene is going to stick with me for a long time.
They Live (1988)
In no way is this movie still relevant. Watch Transformers instead, Obey, Trust Authority. Consume.
I know I am usually late to the party, but with They Live it was a little ridiculous. But I am here and I am all out of Bubblegum. What is not to love about this movie, it's just great from beginning to end. The Shanty town sequence and the alley fight (which wow people weren't kidding about that fight) are like symphonies. The movie is just great.
Invaders From Mars (1986)
While at this state, I didn't love this as much as Lifeforce (but it is LifeForce, and now I really want to watch Lifeforce), I love the way Hopper uses colour. The reds, browns, greens, even the lens flares, all gave the movie this almost too artifical look that made it kilt over to the left.
And of course then there are the creatures themselves, delightfully slimey, membrainy and the best kind of Henson-esque.
John Gutts June 1, 2017 at 8:26 AM
Is it also called Alien Contamination?
Michael Giammarino June 1, 2017 at 12:26 PM
Luigi Cozzi's Contamination? Yes.
Brad L June 1, 2017 at 8:54 AM
Generic fantasy template, mixed with a hint of sci-fi, topped off with a generous serving of British pantomime.
I really dont want to start off Junesploitation by ripping into a movie, because thats not why we're here, right? but...
As a c-grade movie, its does its thing well. Unfortunately, Krull is playing in the a-grade pool (budget, production etc) and therefore i think it warrants more judgement and I ultimately wouldnt recommend it.
On the plus side, there are some really nice set pieces that work really well if viewed separately from the rest of it; i.e. the spider cave is cool to look at with a surprisingly emotional moment, and the villians lair/space fortress is a really good design especially when viewed in small moments in the first 2 act.
Unfortunately, too many less-than-one-note-characters and a general lack of motivation for the majority of the players lets the while team down.
Looks great at times though.
4 out of 10 armoured space slugs.
Matt Sollenberger June 1, 2017 at 10:33 AM
Sorry you didn't like it, that's one of my faves but I'm a sucker for anything fantasy-adjacent. That score is phenomenal (even though it is self-plagiarizing)!
E.S.A.D.D. June 1, 2017 at 11:25 AM
Agreed, love Krull. Krull is to Legend as Flash Gordon is to, I dunno, Dune.
Brad L June 1, 2017 at 11:26 AM
Maybe I'm being too hard on it.
It wasn't a chore to watch, so one day i might give it another go. Now i know what to expect i might find it more enjoyable a second time around.
Chris Keeney June 1, 2017 at 9:01 AM
I feel I'm in the minority of not preferring the assembly cut of Alien 3. After seeing Covenant, it inspired me to revisit the franchise and watched alien 3 assembly cut for the first time and ooo-eee ouch.
I feel it took the already difficult to watch 2 hours and extends it to 2h 25. I also rather enjoyed the chest burster at the end in the original cut, sad to see that not included. To be honest though, my memory of the theatrical version is hazy so as much as I disliked assembly cut; it could still be an improvement. I'm not about to watch alien 3 theatrical again to find out though.
I've been working through the franchise in reverse after Covenant (which I rather enjoyed despite agreeing with all criticisms levied against it) It has been an interesting journey and have discovered a few things. For instance, I loathed Prometheus after seeing it only once in theaters but watching it again after covenant; the film is pretty great. the first hour and 5 minutes the flick nails atmosphere and the excitement of exploration and pioneering uncharted space. The first threat emerges after halfway through the film. I appreciate that restraint and world building. Once the action kicks in gear, the plot makes a lot more sense when viewed on it's own merits and not with the alien lore weighing it down. As a viewer, trying to connect the dots between prometheus and alien franchise became frustrating. It spoiled the film. I feel leaving that baggage at the door, one can have a lot more fun with prometheus.
I enjoyed it so much in fact I had to watch it a third time with Damon Lindelof's commentary which further enriched the experience. I would strongly recommend a revisit to any naysayers, as I once was.
Alien Resurrection has been a low point, although I found it easier to digest than alien 3. They over abused dutch angles that served little function, ala battlefield earth, and all together a strange, frenchy feeling mess.
All that's left to finish is Alien and Aliens. Saved the best for last, my love for those have been cemented a long time ago. So now that there are 6 films in the franchise, only 2 of them I consider bad. Not a bad average for movie franchise. Might I suggest taking on the alien anthology for the end of scary movie month? could be fun.
E.S.A.D.D. June 1, 2017 at 9:47 AM
Completely agree about Prometheus. Never understood the hate for it, and can only assume that it comes from unmet expectations of what it was "supposed" to be. I think history will be kind to Covenant, as well; at the very least as much as it was to Alien 3, but hopefully more.
Paul Calvert June 1, 2017 at 2:02 PM
Wow, hold on there... I believe you're missing a couple Alien movies. There are 8 of them by my Reckoning.
Chris Keeney June 1, 2017 at 5:14 PM
I forgot all about AvP. You're right. I like to pretend those either don't exist or are their own alternate reality.
Another detail in Prometheus that I believe is easily misunderstood and further spoils the movie is the mercenary, black goo infested, zombie Fitfield that reaks havok at the loading bay of the ship is often believed to be the dead, sick,scientist, boyfriend Holloway that gets torched by charlize theron earlier at the loading bay. Since fitfield LOOKS like a scorched dead guy, and the action occurs at the same place, most people think they are the same guy. I certainly did and thought wtf is going on? That's dumb that holloway would come back to life as a zombie after being flame throwered.
The distinction that they are two different characters made the movie better logically.
Rob DiCristino June 1, 2017 at 9:06 AM
The Thing From Another World (1951):
A fun enough B sci-fi adventure (groups of men standing in rooms!) that mostly reminds me of how brilliant Carpenter's remake is. Without the shape-shifting creature, there's none of the paranoia that makes the '82 version so great.
Kyle H June 1, 2017 at 9:21 AM
SLITHER:
I could not think of a better way to start Junesploitation than revisiting James Gunn's excellent Slither. I can't say enough how much I enjoy this movie.
If you have not seen it, I highly recommend you fill one of the days this month with this gem.
Lindsay June 1, 2017 at 6:49 PM
I love this movie, it might be in my top 10 horror, just so much fun, gross and I adore all the characters
Zach June 1, 2017 at 9:41 AM
Oblivion (1994, dir. Sam Irvin) on ShoutFactoryTV
"In the year 3031...its Cowboys and Aliens."
At first I felt like I was watching 'Full Moon Does Troma', what with the broad performances, pacing and comic beats. Then the film won me over with the funeral parlor/Bingo scene. Bonkers and sincere this movie is: we've got Andrew Divoff in lizardface, cyborg deputy Meg Foster, giant stop-motion scorpions, an arm-wrestling death match, TV's Catwoman and Lurch in supporting roles, and that doesn't even scratch the surface. It doesn't always strike gold – our hero is cringe-worthy vanilla pudding, and drunken doctor George Takei is The Worst (although "Jim…beam me up" did make me chuckle pretty hard) – but its good fun nevertheless.
*BONUS* Laserblast (MST3K, S07E06)
Silly movie + remarkably consistent riffing = great episode
Xtro (1982)
I wasnt sure if I was going to stick with this one all the way through, then I saw a woman give birth to an adult man. Needless to say, I have now seen Xtro.
4 out of 6 Alien metaphors
One of us....
Brad L June 1, 2017 at 8:46 PM
Are the sequels worth a look?
E.S.A.D.D. June 1, 2017 at 9:07 PM
Nope! At least, not unless you really love watching Jan-Michael Vincent pretend not to be drunk.
Dennis June 2, 2017 at 10:00 AM
Agreed, very bad!
They Live (1988) (With Commentary by John Carpenter and Rowdy Roddy Piper):
This movie is a classic. I think everyone knows that. If not, work it into your queue immediately! This commentary is also completely awesome. The two guys are clearly fans of each other (and not in a fake Hollywood way) and the commentary is more of a conversation that flows naturally. Piper is what you would expect, totally gregarious, likeable, and honest. He opens up stuff about his personal life and airs some interesting dirty laundry about the WWF. Carpenter is clearly amused by some of the outrageous stuff Piper says. This is in the 99th percentile of all commentaries. Highly recommended.
Ryan Byham June 1, 2017 at 12:34 PM
There's a weird bit in that commentary where Piper (R.I.P Hot Rod) references a film he saw called "The Bronswick Affair". It is about people's purchasing habits being influenced subliminally by their televisions. It is also not real, although Piper apparently mistook it for a documentary. You kind of get the feeling that Carpenter knows this, but is too much of a gentleman to correct his pal. It's the part that I found most interesting in this amazing commentary.
Matt Sollenberger June 1, 2017 at 3:00 PM
Haha I didn't realize that wasn't a real thing either. I think it was similar when Piper said people told him they thought his face was CGI'd onto someone else's body. Pretty sure CGI wasn't a common knowledge thing back then. Carpenter seemed equally politely amused about that comment.
That sounds incredible!
Just checked my dvd copy, :( bare bone edition. No commentary track.
It's on the Screm Factory Blu-ray. Support them if you can! #PhysicalMedia4Life
Brent Petersen June 1, 2017 at 11:02 AM
The Arrival (1996)
I was going to start out this Junesploitation with something else but then saw The Arrival/The Arrival II disc at the library. The Arrival is one of those movies you don't really remember that much but you hear that it's actually pretty good. Well, I had a lot of trouble getting through it. I had it in my head that it was a 7 out of 10 but it's more like a 4. I started the second one but was so bored by the first that I might not finish it.
Ronan C June 1, 2017 at 11:18 AM
Roger Corman's Alien was an early runout for James Cameron as a production designer on this before moving onto a bigger and better Alien movie. At the same time this is great fun with plenty of recognisable faces like a pre glove wearing Robert Englund, Erin Moran trying to break away from her nice girl Joanie role and Sid Haig playing the strong silent type (so strong he punches off his own arm in fact) with crystal throwing stars.
It's proper b-movie craziness that's topped off when a female character, shortly after she says she hates worms, has her clothes licked off and is subsequently raped by a giant maggot.
Junesploitation is off and running and I couldn't be happier.
Damn. That's on the list now
Steve K. June 1, 2017 at 11:22 AM
Alien Abduction (2014)
Family on camping trip encounters aliens of the not-E.T. variety. There are some pretty good effects here and there (not counting the laughably bad alien costumes), but the movie suffers from the usual problems of found-footage films: no real plot, long stretches of tedium, and an over-reliance on jump scares. Our amateur documentarian this time is the family's 11-year-old autistic boy. I have to hand it to this kid – even when filming beings from outer space, he thoughtfully turns the camera away to record his family's reactions of same. I also chuckled at the rough backwoodsman with perfect teeth. You can tell the filmmakers are proud of themselves – this 84-minute film has over 10 minutes of closing credits.
Frank Levesque June 1, 2017 at 11:27 AM
Yup, still awesome. Great way to start the month.
Zach June 1, 2017 at 12:19 PM
The best year
Chaybee June 1, 2017 at 8:00 PM
^^^^ maybe '85 tho...
maybe 87 though
Matt Linton June 2, 2017 at 1:10 AM
Watching this for the first time right now. It's pretty sweet so far.
Karl Hungus June 1, 2017 at 11:30 AM
Well, I finally did it. If you've never seen Xtro, it fits into several different days of Junesploitation and I highly recommend you find an excuse. This film perfectly encapsulates the spirit of the month and was a great way to kick things off.
I was going to put a short plot synopsis right here, but I decided that it's not really necessary. I found myself checking out of the story line after a while and was just enjoying the various WTF-scenes (holy shit, the father's "birth"?!) and special effects. At times it takes on a fever-dream quality with life-size toys and clowns showing up (yeah) and the gore effects are pretty sweet.
Unfortunately, it's not available to stream on any of the major services, but you can watch it on Youtube.
This one had me at the '2001' riff from the outset. Happy Xtro Day!
Dennis June 1, 2017 at 1:02 PM
Perfect explanation, that's why for years I call it a British Giallo, just like Suspiria or The Beyond it doesn't have to make sense, just sit back and enjoy the unpredictable "Xtro-ness" of it
At only 82 minutes it's the perfect running time for an easy fast moving bonkers film
I'm glad you enjoyed it
Mikko Viinikka June 1, 2017 at 12:11 PM
Grabbers (2012, dir. Jon Wright)
A fun little Irish scifi-comedy about a tentacle monster from space whose only weakness (not a spoiler, all the marketing stuff highlights it) is alcohol, so the solution is for the whole town to get hammered. It's got more clichés than you can shake a big stick at ("It's a small town, nothing ever happens here", the two arguing cops, the obvious romantic plot, the redemption story, an Aliens "homage", a Wilhelm scream) but still manages to be a good time. The small Irish town setting is charming and the CGI isn't that bad. Some actors play drunk better than others.
Bonus: R'ha (2013 short film, dir. Kaleb Lechowski)
A 6-minute CGI short film about a member of an alien race whose war machines pulled a Skynet. A nice idea and the alien design is really cool.
Watch in on Vimeo.
E.S.A.D.D. June 1, 2017 at 12:13 PM
Breeders (1986, dir. Tim Kincaid)
Tim Kincaid started out directing gay porn in the '70s under the name Joe Gage (...!!! Tarantino must be a fan,) made a string of crap classics in the '80s (Robot Holocaust, Riot on 42nd St., Mutant Hunt, thank you very much,) then took a decade off before returning to gay porn for the rest of his career. In other words, the man's a national treasure, and this is his very New Yorky riff on Alien. Aliens from under the Empire State Building are taking over people's bodies and making them rape virgins. Every female character gets naked, and they all end up in a kiddie pool full of milk for the climax. I was most excited to see LeeAnne Baker in this, who was the sextuple-breasted witch from personal fave Necropolis.
Star Crystal (1986, dir. Lance Lindsay)
Absurd. Cheap as fuck Alien knock off that mostly annoys for three quarters of its runtime, before pulling one of the ballsiest, out-of-nowhere twists of all time. (Huge spoiler: The monster repents after finding Jesus.)
Earth vs. the Flying Saucers (1956, dir. Fred F. Sears)
As a card-carrying Mars Attacks! fan, I felt like a right cunt about never having watched this before, and as a D.C.-area native, I felt grand satisfaction during the landmark-battering finale. Not incredibly exciting, but inarguably essential '50s sci-fi.
Cat-Women of the Moon (1953, dir. Arthur Hilton)
The Astounding She-Monster (1957, dir. Ronnie Ashcroft)
Devil Girl from Mars (1954, dir. David MacDonald)
And finally, I felt a hankering for sexy '50s alium dames in leotards and fetishwear, so I busted through the main trifecta of said genre. These made me nostalgic for the days when my public access stations ran stuff like this on the weekends during my high school days, sometimes as part of The Spooky Movie with Dr. Sarcofiguy. I definitely saw Devil Girl that way back then, so it was a nice revisit. Lots of satisfying casual misogyny, sneering, and extreme eyebrow pencilling.
J.M. Vargas June 1, 2017 at 3:43 PM
Wow, all those just for "Alien!" day? E.S.A.D.D. is going to have white hair and walk with a cane when Junesploitation! is over.
Mac McEntire June 1, 2017 at 12:14 PM
SPACED INVADERS (1989)
A group of diminutive Martians come to Earth on Halloween night, so everyone assumes they're trick-or-treaters. Two kids help them get home, etc. This movie wants to be another Gremlins, combining small town nostalgia with anarchic comedy. The "comedy" though, is limited to the Martians talking with annoying wacky voices. There are great practical effects (models, costumes, sets, etc.) but not much else to recommend.
Aliens crash-land near a farmhouse and befriend the grandmother and granddaughter living there. The cops surround the house, thinking it's a hostage situation. The movie is way more occupied with hostage negotiation stuff than it is with the aliens, which is disappointing. It's always nice to see Ione Skye, who plays the granddaughter, and there's a semi-nifty twist at the end, but overall, it's a snoozer.
THE PUPPET MASTERS (1996)
A variation on Invasion of the Body Snatchers, where facehugger-like aliens latch onto people's backs to mind-control them, and a group of heroic government agents must stop them. I was expecting dreary conspiracy thriller stuff, and was surprised instead to see the movie is wall-to-wall action, with a lot of chases and fights. There's nothing new here, but it's super cheesy fun.
Jason R. Wells, Esquire June 1, 2017 at 12:28 PM
Killer Klowns from Outer Space (1988)
I feel the title says it all. What else do you really need to know, besides that you're in for a good time!
This is an all-time favorite for me. It's one of the first horror movies I remember seeing, and it just a blast to watch. It has great costumes and make-up, the humor and gags are funny, and it has a pretty kickin' soundtrack (especially that opening song... it's an awesome little earworm). it has one of my favorite John Vernon performances in it as well.
If you've never seen it, I recommend checking it out. If you have seen it, well, it is most definitely worth a rewatch!
I think I have to add this movie to the list, I have been meaning to watch this for a while.
You have to, Lindsay. It's a must see.
A.M. Novak June 1, 2017 at 1:27 PM
Bearded Dennis Quaid! Louis Gossett Jr.!Cross-cultural feels! Mickey Mouse insults! Asexual childbirth! Sarlacc Pit ripoff! This movie is so freakin' underappreciated it hurts. Quaid is a macho space fighter pilot who, through a series of unfortunate events, crash lands onto an uncharted (by humans, anyway) planet where his enemy happens to be hanging out, as well. They have no choice but to work through their hatred and come together to survive, man. The third act will make you cry, just make peace with that now. Based upon a bestselling sci-fi book, ENEMY MINE is forever resonant because it's a simple parable at heart, about prejudice and blind hatred. Watch this movie.
A very underrated 80's sci-fi flick. Wolfgang Petersen directing and Maurice Jarre scoring do make a noticeable difference.
I actually read the novelisation of this (not the novella on which it was based) when I was a pup.
The trope of two members of a warring alien race being stranded on a hostile planet and having to learn to get along in order to survive has been beaten just about to death, possibly with a Futurama lightsaber nightstick, in science fiction in the years since. The Star Trek franchise returned to that well on a number of occasions, but it was even done in the original Battlestar Galactica where it was Faceman and a Cylon, I think.
Maybe not a Cylon.
*two members of different warring alien races.
Daniel Epler June 1, 2017 at 1:27 PM
You might think that this movie has been hyped on the site too much. You might think it can't possibly be as crazy as people are saying. I considered those things. But you would be quite wrong.
This movie truly is as crazy as people say! WOW. I must admit I even got pretty invested in the family drama aspect. I found it sad and a truly difficult decision. What do you do when an estranged spouse comes back?
Also, nothing can prepare you for the birthing scene. Or the toys. Or what happens when people start suckin on people. Good god. This movie is exploding with imagination! I'm thankful it exists.
You got it spot on, I feel it hit you like it hits me, the family situation is the glue for the whole film, it gets even better with more viewings
One of us.....
JP June 1, 2017 at 1:56 PM
Appropriately, it begins with New Line Cinema's early 80's seizure-inducing flashing logo. From there we get monsters, slime, absentee fathers, and absentee fathers who may or may not be slime monsters. #NoSpoilers
All this and I haven't even mentioned the snakes, clowns, panthers, alien eggs, alien pregnancy, and other assorted nastiness to be found. Dennis is onto something, this felt like the absolute right movie to start Junesploitation with. It's goopy, gory, and certifiably batshit crazy. ¡Viva Junesploitation!
AbsenteeFathersploitation!
Hell Yeah JP
You know I'm reading this and smiling ear to ear, your synopsis is perfect, love it
Another convert
Patrick McAllister June 1, 2017 at 2:33 PM
J. M. gave a great look at this film at the top of this page.
It's a really batshit combination of a lot of alien movie elements. "The chestburster in Alien was cool, but what if we amplified it by 100?" Overall a good watch, but it gets a little tame after a really great opening, and I wish it pushed things a little farther in some areas.
Watching this based on J.M.'s rec as well. Is there a word in the Italian language for pacing?
And you're so right about the chestburstings. ;)
haha No kidding. I'm watching it now too. Boy, it's a slog at times but it keeps giving me something to enjoy every so often.
According to Google Translate, it's just "pacing."
It's like they're not even trying.
Come on, Italians, step up your game and come up with some original words. You don't even have your own one for pizza.
Like most flicks that fall under the category of exploitation (which "Contamination" embodies), the heart the filmmakers put into making it shows through the tiny budget. Compared to the way the "eggs" are handled in the all-the-money-in-the-world "Alien: Covenant" I'll take the happy Bronx warehouse employees that'd rather blow themselves up (literally!) than be taken into custody. I just wish the meat in "Contamination's" sandwich was as tasty as the meat holding it together (i.e. strong start and batshit ending).
Patrick McAllister June 1, 2017 at 11:22 PM
Yeah I really thought it would continue to deliver when they arrived at the Coffee plantation, but everything takes place in the bathroom for waaaay too long. Somehow the suspense escaped the room before the colonel did. For the first 20 minutes or so I did think "Wow these scientists are smarter than the ones in Alien Covenant."
Ryan Byham June 1, 2017 at 2:35 PM
Mac And Me (1988)
This must be seen to be believed. An E.T ripoff, partially financed by McDonald's and Coca-Cola. Even with those two titans of industry in the mix, the movie appears to have been made for about sixty bucks, but every penny is up on the screen. There is a full-on, not even plot adjacent, surreal dance number set in the most spacious McDonald's on Earth, which is notable for being the film debut of an uncredited teenaged Jennifer Aniston and a cameo from OG Ronald McDonald. The product placement is far from subtle. Many times, the aliens are given Coke to drink to recover from injury/illness/depression. One of the songs is clearly a Chicago/Cetera knockoff from the "Glory Of Love" era. Come on Ronnie, get off the wallet, you can afford Peter Cetera.
The aliens in the film look distressing to say the least, nightmare fuel for anyone under twenty-five. Mac has pemanently pursed lips and communicates through whistling sounds (financially convenient), and has two expressions surprised and horrifyingly surprised. Mac is a combination of stop-motion, child in suit, puppet on a stick and abandoned rag doll. The adult aliens look like malnourished burn victims and walk like they are in constant agonizing pain and/or stupefyingly inebriated.
The acting in this ranges from terrible to horrible. The single-mother is frighteningly obsessed with seeking her kids' approval and this is not played for comedy. The "Elliott" of the movie is in a wheelchair and played by a disabled child actor who is not very good (don't worry, it's ok to criticize, he's probably in his forties now). This was a real life "Armageddon" strategy in that they figured it would be easier to teach a boy in a wheelchair to be a lead actor, rather than teach an actor to use a wheelchair, much like it's easier to teach oil drillers to be astronauts then to teach astronauts to use a drill.
In the great tradition of Buckaroo Banzai, they threaten the audience with a sequel that will never be. This is highly recommended for bad movie lovers. There is so much nonsense going on at any given moment, that if a WTF measurement tool existed, Mac And Me would cause it to overheat and explode.
Mildly spoilery: There is a scene where the lead boy rides his wheelchair off a cliff into a lake and it is hilarious. Paul Rudd plays it whenever he's on Conan as "a clip from his new movie". Also, it is later revealed that the aliens have healing powers and they heal "Elliott", but not enough to get him out of his wheelchair. Kind of a dick move if you ask me.
I saw this one at that cinema. It was my ET.
Someone should have called social services on my parents
This movie made a huge impact on me back in the day, strictly because of the way the older sister character looked in her McDonald's uniform's pants. Talk about sexy-me seed buns! (Burger joke.) The dancing teddy bear scene was unbelievable too.
Mikko Viinikka June 1, 2017 at 2:47 PM
Dark Star (1974, dir. John Carpenter)
Turns out one of the greatest horror directors' first movie was a scifi-comedy on a shoestring budget. Who knew?
Not a big fan of this one. The philosophical discussion with the AI bomb was kinda fun and there were occasional chuckles, but overall even at 69 minutes it felt a bit of a slog to get through.
Bonus: The Twilight Zone S2E19: Mr. Dingle, the Strong (1961, dir. John Brahm)
This would be a totally forgettable comedy episode if it weren't for the good performances from Burgess Meredith and Don Rickes and the ridiculous-looking two-headed alien. Still, far from a classic episode.
Bonus: The Twilight Zone S2E28: Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up? (1961, dir. Montgomery Pittman)
The polar opposite of the previous one, a great little paranoia story. This truly is a classic one, and deservedly so.
Not the worst two-headed alien I've ever seen.
'Printer's Devil' is Burgess Meredith's finest hour in The Twilight Zone in my opinion. I believe Stephen King even mentions that one in Danse Macabre.
This is a movie where a man gets a slight peck of a kiss from a woman and he says, "That was the most fantastic thing that ever happened to me."
Really dude?
If the only thing you liked about Alien (1979) was exploding chests, then boy oh boy this is the movie for you! This Italian flick certainly has things to like. The monster at the end is pretty rad. The Goblin music is great as always. But overall I found this movie really boring. It gave me things to enjoy along the way enough to keep me from being too tempted to shut it off, and I really did enjoy the alien at the end. But overall... quite dull. Still, I love that Junesploitation is getting so many people to watch goofy stuff like this. haha It's so great.
First time, and when viewing in a "bubble" it was quite enjoyable. Shot on film, it was beautiful to look at, but the monster effects were too obviously CGI. When viewed relative to Carpenter's The Thing, this is a piece of shit.
Alien vs Predator: Requiem (2007)
As a stand alone movie, this one is awesome. They should have called it Hunter Alien: Escape Of The Space Pets, to disassociate it from the "franchise"
7 word review: Rubber Suited Actors Play Pro-Choice Aliens
When viewed relative to Carpenter's The Thing, this is a piece of shit.
We do not need to see your fillings. This assessment will suffice as evidence of your humanness.
There is a chance, though, that the Thing has good taste in movies as well.
I just watched this film too. I saw it when it first came out and didn't love it, but I think the passage of time has been kind to it. I thought the CG was pretty good for the most part, resembling practical special effects at times, which is well-nigh impossible. It goes downhill towards the end, as most action/horror movies do nowadays. One of the great things about the original is the way it finishes on such a low-key note.
I don't know why the Thing chose to reveal itself and crash the helicopter.
As a stand alone movie, this one is awesome.
I'm getting my flamethrower.
Why so many flamethrowers in the Antarctic? I didn't think it was bad, but it's hard not to compare to 1982's version which is near perfect. The Thing revealed itself because they were about to turn the helicopter around because the girl was waving at them.
I spend about three months of the year in the Antarctic because of my job. We love s'mores down here as much as the rest of you do, hence the copiousness of flamethrowers.
Thanks for the helicopter explanation. I obviously wasn't paying close enough attention.
I'm watching Xtro, and I'm as bored as cock with it. I could be seeing the original The Thing. Do you think at conventions and such, people sometimes follow the director of that film into the restroom and stand next to him at the urinal just so they can for the rest of their life say they saw John Carpenter's thing?
Poor guy must get sick of it.
"I'm watching Xtro, and I'm as bored as cock with it."
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Brent Petersen June 1, 2017 at 3:51 PM
The Blob (1958)
It's funny what you think is scary when you're little. I tried watching this with the kids and one of them made it through. It still has its charm. Steve McQueen was 28 playing a teenager. I remembered it having more action but it's mostly people standing around talking about a monster that might exist. Even so, nostalgia makes me not hate it and the acting is ridiculous but watchable. I had it as a 7 out of 10 and I'll stick with that.
I know as a kid the 58 *blub would send me out of the room. I think it was the shot of it coming out of the theatre. Anyway I need to rewatch, I have had this *Blub blu sitting on my wish list for a while.
Morgan June 1, 2017 at 4:01 PM
This is my first year of Junesploitation and I must say I certainly made the right choice for Day 1. I've been wanting to see this film for years after hearing how bizarre it is. After seeing creepy clowns, toy action figures coming to life, lots of slimey flesh sucking and probably the grossest birthing scene ever, I have to agree that this film is indeed totally wacko. Highly recommend this one for any alien/exploitation lover!
Fantastic, Xtro day is going down great, it really is the best start to the month, I'm happy you were won over by its "Xtrodinary-ness"
Mmmmmmm...slimy flesh sucking. [HomerDrooling.gif]
The Day IT Came to Earth (1977 in Louisiana; 1979 in California) what the F?! Dir. Harry Thomason
What starts as Film Noir-esque initially in which some gangsters dump a body in the same lake a meteor carrying an alien lands in. The alien turns the dead body into a zombie (Zombie/Alien Movie!) and insanity ensues (not at all).
It would have been awesome if the Film Noir tone maintained throughout the movie, but unfortunately it goes away rather quickly and we are left with a pretty standard campy, yet tame, Drive-In movie that I still found fun enough.
Rita Wilson's first film role and she looks great; taller than I thought she was. Delight De Bruine, only credited in one other role as "Bunny" in "Happy Days", is great, too. From reading the reviews I'm not the only one who picked up on the script in which a professor names the alien/zombie "Geophysical Gaseous Goon" and makes sure that "in the event there is a code word needed, we will call it "gee Ga Goo".
Apparently this was on "Elvira's Movie Macabre" so my "diggin' deep" rep isn't strong here.
Matthew B. June 1, 2017 at 5:43 PM
Planning on watching Tobe Hooper's Invaders from Mars....if I can find my blu Ray. If not, I'm going to have to check out Xtro, because I've heard it's bonkers haha
I saw Evil Aliens, a super-gory British horror-comedy from 2005. It's available to watch on Youtube, although I can't vouch for the quality. The film is... memorable. I don't think I'll ever forget it. In the very first scene we see a man anally sodomised almost to death with the sort of thing Leland Orser was made to wear in Seven.
It references just about every science fiction film and television show you've ever seen. There's a spitload of nods to Star Trek; also Psycho (I don't believe in either the Hitchock original or the wretched Vince Vaughn remake we ever got to see Norman actually ejaculating as he does his peeping tom thing), Phantasm (flying spheres of death), Species (an alien lady with scary boobage having amorous relations with a geek), Day of the Dead (more an actual reference than an allusion in this case), The X-Files, Jaws, Peter Jackson's Braindead (that's unkind; the first of the Hobbit films wasn't too bad), and there's even some Sergio Leone 'Dollars' business.
Oh, and it stars Emily Booth. She doesn't get entirely naked in this one. You have to watch Cradle of Fear for that.
Not of This World a.k.a Space Killers (much better title) (1991 TV Movie) Dir. Jon Hess
Great cast with great hair and "Knots Landing" Lisa Hartman being top billed yet given nothing to do. There's also the Mexican/Native American Josh Brolin, A Martinez, as the sheriff who sucks at baseball and tucks his jersey into his jeans.
After a meteor shower, "electrified" lizard-like aliens are terrorizing a small town. Most of the time nothing is happening, but when the electric lizards make their space killings it's pretty funny.
Fun fact: CBS Tuesday Movie of the Week aired Feb. 12, 1991 at 9pm against new episodes of ABC's Rosanne, Coach, Thirtysomething and NBC's In the Heat of the Night and Law and Order.
Now you have to do fun facts for every movie. They better be fun!
Russell June 2, 2017 at 12:34 AM
I will be a bit late to get my review up for today but you can blame Chaybee because I spent the 90 mins i set aside for watching listening to his albums in my kitchen.
Chaybee June 2, 2017 at 4:43 AM
Thanks, Russell! Much respect, man!
Wil A June 1, 2017 at 6:48 PM
As the president of my high school film club, I showed Starship Troopers (1997) for my final film. I gotta say, it played okay (though I think it is great). I am unhappy to report that I'm not sure it holds up on a third viewing, but that's probably because it is just that. A third viewing.
Michael Piccoli June 1, 2017 at 7:54 PM
When I watch a movie, my criteria often is "will it thrill me?" Well, Night of the Creeps does just that.
Rob DiCristino June 1, 2017 at 8:47 PM
The Thing (2011):
Why do this? And why do it like this?
JP June 1, 2017 at 10:02 PM
Because there are some people, as JB is fond of pointing out, who are bastard people.
Michael Giammarino June 2, 2017 at 8:24 AM
Whoever it was on the executive level with decided the practical effects in this films had to be "drawn" over with cg needs to be fired.
Mike P June 1, 2017 at 9:38 PM
Terror Vision (1986)
This is why I love 80's horror comedy! Pretty good start to Junesploitation I must say. Basic plot here is that a family's satellite receives signals from another planet that opens a passageway for a very hungry alien. Decent practical effects and all around goofy fun.
This is a damn-near masterpiece. Gerrit Graham being in something is always a good omen, and this is also one of the best Jon Gries performances. Plus, Diane Franklin never looked better than in the rainbow sherbert wig she's wearing in this. (And if you wanna see the daughter from TerrorVision topless, grab yo self a copy of Amityville II post-haste, brotha.)
I remember seeing....well...clips of this movie, but never the whole thing. Unfortunately the special effects (which range from okay through to awful) date it badly...but the cast is good, if a little wasted, and Natasha Henstridge will never not be great to watch.
Imagine 'Under the Skin' written by 12 year olds in 1994. Drunk 12 year olds.
William Smith June 1, 2017 at 10:18 PM
Night of the Creeps (1986)
While I was originally planning on watching The Thing, I decided very last minute I was gonna try to stick to movies I haven't seen before. Plus, the last movie of F This Movie! Fest this year was Monster Squad, so Night of The Creeps felt all the more fitting.
And boy was this the right way to start of the month. Aliens. Slugs. Tom Atkins. Zombies. Axe Murderers. Zombie Axe Murderers. The movie is so fun and just like Monster squad, it's clear Dekker loves himself some horror movies. So much so, that every single character in the film seems to be named after a horror director. Cameron. Cronenberg. Raimi. Romero. Carpenter Hooper (one name). They attend Corman University. It borders the obnoxious but it's clear Dekker is so sincere that who cares. Also, Dekker just completely repeats his "dead guys don't just walk around" SMASH CUT TO *said dead guy walking around* joke from this movie to Monster Squad. Think no one would notice Fred? Well I did.
Tom Atkins is the bomb in this movie. His first few scenes feature him investigating crimes in a Hawaiian shirt unbuttoned way too far. He's able to play the character as a mix of this lovable jerk and this pitiful old man. It's a strange combo, but Atkins pulls it off.
See y'all tomorrow, when I'll probably be watching Lethal Weapon.
Sol June 1, 2017 at 10:35 PM
Critters (1986)
In the hands of a good director Critters probably could have been an okay movie. The cast is a wonderful ensemble of familiar character actors (including Dee Wallace!), the premise isn't super original but it's not bad, the creature's kinda cool - but somehow it all comes together to make for an often dull experience. It's got some moments - introducing subtitles for the creatures was genius but doesn't get used to its full potential - but it just doesn't do enough to distinguish itself from all the things it's ripping off. i can see why 9-year old Sol thought it was great but it's not!
AJ Muller June 1, 2017 at 11:15 PM
EVIL ALIENS (2005)
-on Shudder
Yeah, this seems like the way to start the month off right.
Damn straight.
Patrick Bromley June 1, 2017 at 11:24 PM
Evils of the Night (1985, dir. Mardi Rustam)
I mean, it isn't NOT a movie, right? The first 30 minutes of this movie are so full of nudity and softcore sex that it's utterly tedious. Then all of that stuff goes completely away and we're left with Julie Newmar, John Carradine and Tina Louise in an Ed Woodian epic about aliens who come to Earth to drain the blood of humans so they can live forever. Oh, and the bodies they use are collected by their two helpers -- auto mechanics played by Aldo Ray and Neville Brand. I honestly have no idea how so many "name" actors signed on to this, because it is schlock in the truest sense of the word. Naturally, I do not mean this as a pejorative, though I do wish this was a little more energetic and fun to kick the month off in slightly more spectacular fashion. Not wasted time, but not one I'm really recommending.
So many movies being watched and talked about, everyone. What a great first day and an incredible start to the month. Thank you!
I don't know how I hadn't seen this before but I don't think I could have watched it at a better time. Not exactly the "alien" movie I was expecting, but I loved it regardless and I think it was the perfect way to start June. Maybe what the world needs right now is Michael Rennie and a giant robot
Chayse Spence June 1, 2017 at 11:30 PM
This is why I don't talk to Ex's (Ex-tro anyone?). That was pretty insane and even with all the hype I did not see where it was heading. The make-up on those last couple of shots were awesome! This one has been on my list since last Junesploitation and it was well worth the wait. Pretty much a perfect start to the Junesploitation madness.
I'm so happy you liked it, my church is growing, Xtrology is the new Scientology
Lifeform (1996)
It's the age old question. What happens if you send something to Mars and it comes back with an attachment? You wait til it tries to kill everyone. I actually had a blast with this one. It's pretty much contained in one area but it kept me interested. The alien effects are mostly practical and the dialogue wasn't as bad as most 90s sci-fi movies. Also, Ryan Phillipe is a soldier that looks like he's in elementary school. I'd give it 7 out of 10 and definitely worth checking out.
Scott Skocy June 1, 2017 at 11:43 PM
I thought I was only barely getting into the spirit of things by watching Steven Spielberg's War of the Worlds, but it turns out it is more exploitation-y than I expected. I kind of forgot it existed until the other day and realized there was a Spielberg movie I hadn't seen, which needed to be remedied. That is just a straight up, old fashioned alien invasion movie. Aliens show up, wreck the earth for an hour and half and then go away so the movie can end. Also, very much a Post 9/11 movie.
Michael Pomaro June 1, 2017 at 11:58 PM
Attack The Block (2011)
It's been years since I've watched this, but I don't think I'll make that mistake again. ATB is just awesome, bruv.
Chayse Spence June 2, 2017 at 10:54 AM
"That's an alien bruv, believe it." I love Attack the Block, John Boyega is the man. Innit, fam.
I Come In Peace (1990)
I refuse to call it Dark Angel because that's a stupid title. Hey, Brian Benben, a first name said twice does not make a last name. Sure this movie doesn't make a ton of sense but who gives a shit. It's got Interplanetary drug dealers, Dolph, Bernard from Lost, the guy from Dream On(Benbenbenben) and CDs! I love it and you should too. 8 out of 10.
I do love it, Brent, put the CD launcher down, please! The trailer for this one really freaked me out as a tyke.
I come in peace...you go in pieces. Maybe the best line in the history of cinema.
Adam Riske June 2, 2017 at 12:13 AM
Pretty impressive low budget 50s sci-fi/alien movie. This would have been great at one of those all day Portage Theater marathons. I don't love it like I love Invasion of the Body Snatchers or The Incredible Shrinking Man from that era (era) but I'm glad I finally got around to seeing it. The ending is sticking with me too. Pretty spooky!
My persona legit favorite '50s sci-fi movie (Robot Monster would be the non-legit fave); like you stated, genuinely spooky. An older woman I work with knows how much I love movies, and asked me if I could remember the name of a movie that she remembered really spooking her when she was a kid, and it turned out to be Invaders. So the movie's assumed objective of traumatizing '50s kids is a confirmed success.
Yeah it really sneaks up on you and then credits. It's an eerie feeling you don't expect from the era (era).
Daniel Epler June 2, 2017 at 11:23 AM
Damn, that sounds great. Might have to watch that for scifi day.
Charles Lewis June 2, 2017 at 2:59 AM
First time. Somehow had no idea it was Golan Globus. No idea Patrick Stewart was in it, etc. etc. In love with the makeup/puppet effects. Everything else (besides some of the editing and couple of the effects) was super solid for me. This maybe only my third favorite sex alien movie, but it's the one that explores the victims intense feelings for their succubus and that's pretty cool.
The Galaxy Invader (1985)
Don Dohler's classic movie. Retarded movie with a baby faced man running arround with his father chasing an alien that just wants his weapon back. It's trash, but fun and you can see your grandma shoot a man of a cliff with a shotgun.
Russell June 2, 2017 at 9:46 PM
Galaxy of Terror
All this talk about Sid Haig and Robert Englund in the cast but no-one mentioned David Lynch regular Grace Zabriskie.
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Some bands just have a taste for Big Topics. In the case of A Perfect Circle, the taste had always been accompanied with great expectations. Centered on guitarist Billy Howerdel's songwriting, the band, whose new album Eat the Elephant is out today, was conceived as a supergroup of sorts. Maynard James Keenan, the vocalist for Tool (for which Howerdel had served as a guitar tech), offered to lend his voice; he was soon joined by Smashing Pumpkins guitarist James Iha, and John Freese, a drummer who had played with Devo and Guns 'N' Roses, while Paz Lenchantin (currently the bassist for the Pixies) and guitarist Troy van Leeuwen rounded out the lineup. APC's 2000 debut Mer de Noms presented a sound at once familiar and hauntingly strange. Instead of contrasting with the complex bludgeoning of the Tool lineup, Keenan's high, rich voice melded with Howerdel's gentler approach to melody. The guitars still carried a dissonant, alternative edge, but blunt force never prevailed. As the band's name suggested, this was a project built on curves instead of right angles.
Appearing right as the nü-metal wave was cresting, Mer de Noms and its 2003 successor, The Thirteenth Step, offered relief for fans and critics eager for a change from the visceral lowlife nü-metal connoted but unwilling to back off from the alt-rock ethos entirely. That APC emerged from the bowels of Tool, whose submerged tones and gross-out content had inspired the likes of Limp Bizkit and Korn, was an added bonus. For once, you could bask in Keenan's angelic vocals without bathing in sludge at the same time. The band wasn't quite easy listening, but it was certainly easier. The lyrics' intellectual pretensions were wrapped in a pleasing cloak of symbolism, foreign vibes, and songs titled after female names. "Judith," the major hit from Mer de Noms, is a prime example: Named after Keenan's mother and charged with his fury at the excesses of the Christian religion, the song carries a heavy payload, but gracefully. This was metal as cruise missile instead of main battle tank, and it blew up capably; both albums went platinum.
The follies of religion and other forms of mass mind control were a primary theme. Extreme individual suffering was another, particularly on The Thirteenth Step, whose title references the 12-step program and whose material focuses on the ravages of drug addiction. Finally, there was opposition to war: The band's third album, Emotive (2004), released in the wake of the Iraq invasion, is a series of inventive, sometimes baffling covers whose source material — Lennon's "Imagine," Marvin Gaye's "What's Going On," Fear's sarcastic "Let's Have a War," — is united by a longing for peace. As Rage Against the Machine's Renegades, released around the same time, shows, covers albums tend to serve as last calls for the bands that put them out, and Emotive was no exception. In 2005, the slices of the circle went their separate ways, and though the band has reconvened to tour occasionally since, progression on a new collection was halting at best. Then Donald Trump ran for president.
Trump's election and its aftermath seems to have lit a fire under Howerdel and Keenan — especially, it seems, the latter. The sonics of Eat the Elephant are mellow, at times too mellow to compete with lyrics that have gone clunky and a bit steroidal. All the old themes have returned. The title track centers on suicide and originally included Chester Bennington. Lead single "The Doomed" is a bitter inversion of Christ's Sermon on the Mount: "Blessed are the gluttonous: may they lead us to famine and war." On "So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish" a barrage of celebrity deaths — Gene Wilder, Carrie Fisher, Muhammad Ali, David Bowie, Prince — is likened to the abandoning of a doomed Earth by dolphins in Douglas Adams's Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
Along with many others on the album, these are grim signals to fit grim times, but without more bite from the guitars and less portentousness from the words, the art doesn't hold up nearly as well as could have. If you'd forgotten how possible it is to become irritatingly didactic and bleak while criticizing systems of mental control, Keenan's more than ready to remind you. That said, his voice hasn't lost its pleasing, smooth, and vaguely British texture, and Howerdel's songs, even if they sometimes lack vigor, are executed with graceful intelligence and occasional novelty. "Hourglass," for example, is an intriguing venture into digital distortion. Eat the Elephant isn't going to revive the flagging fortunes of alternative rock or give rise to any protest anthems, but at the very least it's a curious experiment, which is something more than most reunited bands are capable of. It's in this aspect that A Perfect Circle gives us some hope for its own future, though none for the world itself.


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Q: Reject Binary button missing (remove this version from review) The "remove this version from review" button is missing from itunesconnect. I've seen this post: Reject binary with state waiting for review (can't find reject binary button) but unfortunately the banner is nowhere to be found. Did Apple change that somehow and how can I reject it now?
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A: I've recently experienced the same issue with iTunes Connect. The blue box didn't appear either on my app's "Versions" tab while it was in "Waiting for Review" status. I emailed Apple, still waiting for a response and had some time to investigate the page's HTML. I found a work around which triggers the reject popup:
Search for "modal for dev reject" in the DOM (it will appear as a comment). Remove the class "ng-hide" from the following DIV.

A: Check out the source using chrome.
I had to manually hide/unhide the modal:

The key phrase to look up is "showDevRejectModal", and delete the "ng-hide" parameter.

A: The solution is log out, wait several minutes and log in again.

A: just wait for some time (~ 30 mins) and it will show up.

A: Had the exact same problem. Tried submitting a new build, even waited 24 hours, but nothing helped. I also looked in the iTunes Connect app but the "reject binary" button was missing there also.
Eventually I contacted apple support and this is the answer I got:
"Our tools are optimized for Safari. Please try again with a different web browser and let us know if the issue persists."
I then tried with Safari and everything was fine. Strange thing was, it also worked in Chrome (my primary browser) when I tried it after that.

A: Did Apple change...??? So Answer is "NO".
Here is screenshoot of my App that is in waiting for review state. I checked it on both Firefox and Safari.

You can Check This LINK for more clarification
I just saw the screenshoot you added. No doubt in your case this is a problem. I suggest you to consult with the Apple Developer Support Team.

A: I also experienced this issue. What worked for me is clearing the cache on Safari.


BPMUG, Inc – "Users Helping Users"
BPMUG, located in Central Connecticut, is one of the oldest computer user groups in the Northeastern United States, serving its membership and community since 1982 (a quarter of a century!).
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Same adhesive and backing as Split Tape allowing for a clean removal. Just without the blue adhesive-free areas.
For taping further into the screen, taping the print side of screens as a block out tape, and masking the inside of wood frames.


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In Memoriam: Paul Farmer, Global Public Health Visionary
Paul Farmer, Harvard physician and anthropologist, widely recognized for his leadership in providing medical care to some of the poorest people around the world, died in his sleep of sudden cardiac arrest on February 21 in Butaro, a rural region of Rwanda. He was 62.
Paul Farmer (Creative Commons License)
Farmer was a proponent of "liberation theology," a movement in Christian theology, developed mainly by Latin American Roman Catholics, that emphasizes liberation from social, political, and economic oppression as an anticipation of ultimate salvation.
The world "lost a true humanist whose spirit and belief in the fundamental goodness of people inspired us all," wrote Glen Gaulton, vice dean and faculty director of the Center for Global Health at the University of Pennsylvania's Perelman School of Medicine, in a tribute to Farmer. "… through his passion, his faith in humanity, and his belief in what we could accomplish together, the vision of health equity for all may continue to be realized. It's now up to us to meet that goal by channeling that part of Paul's moral fiber which lies deep within everyone he touched and the generations he inspired."
Farmer chaired the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School and was chief of the Division of Global Health Equity at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. He also served as Special Adviser for Community-based Medicine and Lessons from Haiti to United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.
In Butaro in 2012, Farmer helped build a hospital with a cancer care center. Three years later, he founded the University of Global Health Equity in Kigali to teach Rwandan medical students.
Farmer cofounded Partners in Health, a Boston-based nonprofit established in 1987 with the goal of providing healthcare for the poor. The organization began its work in Haiti and expanded to 11 other countries, including Peru, Mexico and Cambodia, where it built hospitals and clinics that provide medical treatment and surgery rivaling services available in the wealthiest Western nations.
Born in Massachusetts in 1959, adversity in his youth helped Farmer learn to adapt to harsh conditions.
He found his calling in Haiti as a medical volunteer after graduating in 1982 from Duke University with a degree in medical anthropology. Distressed by the plight of poor Haitians who couldn't afford healthcare, let alone quality care, he built a modest clinic in the village of Cange.
Farmer continued working in Haiti while a student at Harvard Medical School. He took his textbooks to Haiti and traveled to Boston for his exams and lab work.
To Farmer, few places offered a better opportunity than Haiti for practicing liberation theology.
Farmer's honors include a 1993 MacArthur Fellowship and a 2020 Berggruen Prize, an annual $1 million award for major achievements in advancing ideas that shape the world.
From its beginnings, the Church of Scientology has recognized that freedom of religion is a fundamental human right. In a world where conflicts are often traceable to intolerance of others' religious beliefs and practices, the Church has, for more than 50 years, made the preservation of religious liberty an overriding concern.
The Church publishes this blog to help create a better understanding of the freedom of religion and belief and provide news on religious freedom and issues affecting this freedom around the world.
The Founder of the Scientology religion is L. Ron Hubbard and Mr. David Miscavige is the religion's ecclesiastical leader.
For more information visit the Scientology website or Scientology Network.
The Founder of the Scientology religion is L. Ron Hubbard and Mr. David Miscavige is the religion's ecclesiastical leader


Brookwater Innovations (Private Limited) is a New Delhi (India) based company. We are a majority owned subsidiary of Westernston, Inc. (Houston, TX) and sourcing/marketing arm of the conglomerate of Westernston brands.
We are brand makers. We help our clients develop market-leading, pre-eminent brands through synchronized branding practices, pricing strategies, marketing systems and positioning tactics. Additionally, we develop business systems architecture(s) for our clients' operations.
We work with small and medium enterprises that offer unique, non-commoditized products or services to their audiences. We work with a limited number of clients. At this time, we are no longer accepting new clients for either brand development, systems architecture or sourcing projects.
and dedicated people to join us.
Mr. Kumar has extensive experience in finance, banking, and legal matters. As the CEO, Mr. Kumar oversees the general direction in which Brookwater Innovations is headed. As the Chairman of the Board of Directors, Mr. Kumar provides the vision for the business' strategic direction and leads the vision for its objective alignment to the company's mission.
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Mr. Behl is responsible for systemizing the operations as well as marketing of Brookwater's internal matters, as well as client affairs. He heads the HR, Finance, Systems and Marketing departments of the company. Additionally, he is responsible for business growth through acquisitions, mergers, takeovers and strategic alliances.