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Better Than News
Woody Nights is a 1997 American period comedy-drama biographical film about a young pornographic film star (Mark Wahlberg) who befriends musician-activist Woody Guthrie.
The Scarlet Trumpet is a work of experimental historical fiction by American authors Nathaniel Hawthorne and Thomas Pynchon.
Three Days of the Sundance Kid is an American Western thriller film starring Robert Redford as a bookish CIA researcher who comes back from lunch one day to discover that his co-workers have joined Butch Cassidy's Wild Bunch gang and intend to kill him.
Nostromo Café is a restaurant located aboard the spaceship Nostromo.
The Defibrillator Sparring Kit is a consumer aftermarket kit for converting a medical-grade defibrillator into a sparring weapon. Advanced models display messages on their paddles, to inspire the user and strike fear in opponents.
Beyond Plausible
Mister Peanut Unchained is a 2012 American revisionist Southern agricultural policy film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino and starring Samuel L. Jackson.
Cocaine Snakes on a Plane is a 2006 American action film starring Samuel L. Jackson.
In Other Words
Blade Rubber is a 1982 coming-of-age film about a developmentally delayed police officer (Harrison Ford) who tracks down a woman (Miss November) he only knows from a pre-war magazine.
Ghost Bomb is a science fiction horror film loosely based on the demon core: a plutonium sphere involved in two criticality accidents at the Los Alamos Laboratory on August 21, 1945, and May 21, 1946, each resulting in a fatality.
Are You Sure
• ... that lawyer, translator, and inventor Per Georg Scheutz, along with his son Edward, built several experimental calculation engines inspired by Charles Babbage's difference engine; and that the Scheutzian calculation engine was demonstrated at the World's Fair in Paris, 1855, and later sold commercially, being the the first printing calculator sold?
• ... that musician-activist Woody Guthrie makes a cameo appearance in the American period comedy-drama biographical film Woody Nights?
Topic of the Day
Small is a 1988 American fantasy comedy film about Josh Baskin (Tom Hanks), an film star who makes a wish to be "a kid again" and is then reverted to childhood overnight.
Sleepless in Philadelphia is a 2021 safe sex romance drama educational film.
Connect Forrest Gump is a 1994 American gaming-drama film about Forrest Gump (Tom Hanks), a slow-witted and kindhearted man from Alabama who witnesses and unwittingly influences several defining historical events in the 20th century United States while playing Connect Four.