August 26

Better Than News

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  Harvey Darko is an American science fiction psychological comedy-thriller film directed by Henry Koster and Richard Kelly, starring James Stewart, Josephine Hull, Jake Gyllenhaal, and Jena Malone.

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  Undrainable is a 2000 American superhero thriller pool maintenance instructional film written, produced, and directed by M. Night Shyamalan, and starring Bruce Willis, Samuel L. Jackson, Robin Wright, Spencer Treat Clark, and Charlayne Woodard.

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  Jesus Told Me To is a 1976 science fiction horror film about victims of apparently random murders who are inexplicably raised from the dead.

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  Tweet Runner is a 1982 science fiction social media film about a retired police officer (Harrison Ford) who must track down and delete four illegal replicant tweets.

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  "You Can Call Me Algorithm" is a song by Paul Simon and HAL 9000.

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  Tantrum is a 1979 shopping fiction horror film directed by Ridley Scott 1.1 and written by [REDACTED] which follows an ensemble case of shoppers aboard the commercial space shopping mall Nostromo who encounter the eponymous Tantrum, an aggressive and deafening child set loose on the ship.

Beyond Plausible

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  Where's Toto? is a 1970 American black comedy film about the troubled relationship between the members of a band (Toto) and their senile mother (Ruth Gordon), who keeps interfering with their love lives.

In Other Words

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  "Alexander's Nevsky Band" is a Tin Pan Alley song by American composer Irving Berlin released in 1911 and is often inaccurately cited as his first Russian-themed hit. Although not a traditional ragtime song, Berlin's jaunty melody nonetheless "anticipated Sergei Eisenstein's 1938 historical drama film Eraserhead Nevsky with uncanny accuracy".

Are You Sure

... that Little Terminator is a 1984 documentary memoir film by Arnold Schwarzenegger about his penis?

Topic of the Day

Spider-Man

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  Pete and Spidey Face the Mutant is a personal drama self-help film starring Peter Parker and Spider-Man.