July 30
Better Than News
Mozart and the Bomb is an epic biographical comedy-romance thriller film directed by Christopher Nolan and Petter Næss, starring Josh Hartnett, Radha Mitchell, and Cillian Murphy.
Breaking Barb is a fantasy crime comedy-drama television series created by Greta Gerwig and Vince Gilligan, starring Margot Robbie, Bryan Cranston, Ryan Gosling, and Aaron Paul.
The Joy of Enigma is a 1972 illustrated manual of erotic enigma machine encryption and decryption activities.
Hummer is a 1981 American science fiction ornithology film about a giant mutant hummingbird with hypnotic power over people.
Hot Wheels: A New Hope is a science fiction drama film about a dystopian future where Hot Wheels have been exiled to a trackless penal zone in deep space.
Beyond Plausible
Rising Strain is a science fiction buddy cop biological warfare crime thriller film directed by Robert Wise and Philip Kaufman, starring Sean Connery, Wesley Snipes, Arthur Hill, and James Olson.
Into Dreddness is a dystopian science fiction action film directed by Pete Travis and J. J. Abrams, and starring Karl Urban and Benedict Cumberbatch.
White Shaft is a 2008 action-crime film directed by Richard Roundtree and starring Robert Downey Jr. as private commando John Shaft.
In Other Words
Refrain From Forever was an American punk fusion band founded by pianist Chick Corea in 1972.
The Man Who Knew to Mulch is a 1956 American suspense agriculture film about an American family vacationing in French Morocco who become involved in a complex plan to improve agricultural yields using imported machinery and cheap local labor.
Are You Sure
... that during the American Civil War, Union forces attempted to break Confederate lines at Petersburg, Virginia by exploding a large bomb under their trenches, an event today known as the Battle of the Crater?
... that "being more like me and less like them" is a good idea?
Selected Anniversaries
1832: Chemist, physician, agronomist, industrialist, statesman, educator, and philanthropist Jean-Antoine-Claude Chaptal dies.
1864: American Civil War: Battle of the Crater: Union forces attempt to break Confederate lines at Petersburg, Virginia by exploding a large bomb under their trenches.
1974: Watergate scandal: U.S. President Richard Nixon releases subpoenaed White House recordings after being ordered to do so by the Supreme Court of the United States.
Topic of the Day
Clowns
Shakes the Cannibal is a 1991 American horror film directed and written by Dingo Silverbug, who performs the title role. It also features a cameo by Florence Henderson as Robin Williams (using the pseudonym "Mrs. Brady").
Time-Mime is a reality educational television series in which time-traveling mimes compete to "do the most with the least."
Taxi Joker is an historical American drama film about taxi drivers coping with clown violence on the job.