August 6

Better Than News

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  Keebler Impact is an action-thriller film about a food poisoning victim (Sondra Locke) who seeks revenge on the Keebler elves by killing them one by one, and the police inspector (Clint Eastwood) who is tasked with tracking her down.

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  Full Metal 300 is a historical war drama film written and directed by Stanley Kubrick and Zach Snyder.

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  Jurassic Piano is a 1993 erotic science fiction period action-drama film directed by Jane Campion and Steven Spielberg.

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  Klute 2: Return to Golden Pond is an American romantic thriller film starring Jane Fonda, Henry Fonda, Katharine Hepburn, and Donald Sutherland.

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  Absence of Verdict is a neo-noir legal drama thriller film starring Paul Newman and Sally Field.

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  The Bullitt is a 1958 neo-noir action horror film starring Steve McQueen.

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  The Bourne Decaffeination is a 2002 action-coffee film starring Matt Damon as Jason Bourne, a man suffering from caffeine deprivation amnesia attempting to discover his identity amidst a clandestine conspiracy within the CIA.

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  Matrix of Steel is a 2013 American superhero science fiction film starring Henry Cavill and Keanu Reeves.

Beyond Plausible

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  She Loaves You is a song by the British rock group The Breadles.

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  Get Carter Get is a crime drama film directed by Mike Hodges and Tom Tykwer, starring Michael Caine and Franke Potente.

In Other Words

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  Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Glass Onions is a black comedy murder mystery film written and directed by Rian Johnson and Guy Ritchie.

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  The Shrubbing is a 1980 American landscape gardening horror film about a young gardener (Danny Torrance) who discovers that he has supernatural powers over shrubbery.

Are You Sure

... that the song "Have You Never Been Holden?" by Olivia Newton-John and J.D. Salinger which asks:
"Have you never been Holden?
Have you never tried
To flush the phonies from inside you?"

Topic of the Day

Extinction

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  Formerly Wild Kingdom, better known as Mutual of Omaha's Formerly Wild Kingdom, is an American documentary television program that features formerly interesting wildlife and nature, now dull and boring or simply unavailable due to overhunting, overfishing, urban sprawl, desertification, and coastal land loss in the age of rising oceans.