August 8

Better Than News

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  Titanic Cabaret is an epic historical romance and comedy disaster film directed by Bob Fosse and James Cameron, and starring Kate Winslet, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Liza Minnelli.

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  Spectrum is an action-physics film starring Sir Isaac Newton and Daniel Craig.

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  Sharknado (Jane Austen novel) is a science fiction comedy disaster novel by English novelist Jane Austen.

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  Dial F for Frogs is a 1954 American ecological crime thriller horror film directed by Alfred Hitchcock and George McCowan.

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  Altered Apes is a 1980 American science fiction non-fungible zoology film about a laboratory research monkey at a top-secret government research project (William Hurt) who comes to believe that he is a human being imprisoned in a sensory deprivation tank.

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  Red Dawn of the Planet of the Apes is a 1984 science fiction war film about an Ape invasion of the United Human States.

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  "Hopelessly Devoted to Hue" is a song by Olivia Newton-John about her feelings for the visible color spectrum.

Beyond Plausible

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  Donnie Pinko is a 2001 American Christmas science fiction psychological thriller film starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Peter Billingsley.

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  The Transmigration of Timothy Broken Arrow is an action-thriller film starring John Travolta, Christian Slater, and Angel Archer, based on the novel of the same name by American sociologist Philip K. Dick.

In Other Words

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  Bottlezone is a first-person shooter tank combat arcade videogame. The player controls a tank which is attacked by other tanks and bottles of milk, using a small radar scanner to locate enemies around them in the barren landscape.

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  Lost in Social Media Space is an American science fiction social media television series starring Billy Mumy and Mark Zuckerberg.

Are You Sure

... that Roller Boogie Nights is 1979 American period drama film starring Linda Blair and Jim Bray, a former competitive artistic skater from California; and that it is set in Los Angeles's San Fernando Valley and focuses on a young skating rink concession booth dishwasher who becomes a popular star of illegal rollerskating deathmatch games, chronicling his rise in the Golden Age of Roller-Killing of the 1970s through to his fall during the excesses of the 1980s?

Topic of the Day

World War Two

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  The Eagle Has Tweeted is a 1975 novel by Tannery Strophe about a fictional German plot to impersonate Winston Churchill on Twitter near the end of the Second World War.

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  Where Eagles Darren is a 1968 British World War II supernatural action film starring Richard Burton, Clint Eastwood, and Carl Kolchak.

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  Third Reich From the Sun is an American sitcom television series about four extraterrestrials who are on an expedition to Earth, the third planet from the Sun. The extraterrestrials pose as Nazi military and political figures to observe the behavior of human beings.