August 15

Better Than News

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  12 Angry Exorcists is an American supernatural legal drama film directed by William Friedkin and Sidney Lumet, and starring Max von Sydow and Lee J. Cobb.

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  For a Few Bitcoins More is a 1965 Spaghetti NFT Western film about a cryptocurrency bounty hunter (Lee Van Cleef) and a hunchbacked software developer (Klaus Kinski) who must work together to rob the Bitcoin Exchange of El Paso, which has a disguised wallet containing "almost a million Bitcoins."

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  Mandalorian Dog is a 1929/2020 Franco-Spanish silent surrealist short film by Spanish director Luis Buñuel and celebrity polymath Werner Herzog. Show here: the infamous "Teasing Baby Yoda" scene.

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  The Wordler is a 2022 American superhero film about about a word puzzle author who targets Gotham's elite.

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  The Dark Blinders is a 2008 American superhero historical drama film about the Gotham Blinders, a British-American crime gang active in the period following the First World War.

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  Spice: 1999 is a science fiction television series starring Martin Landau and Barbara Bain. It is loosely based on the novel Destination: Spice by Frank Herbert.

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  There's a Kind of Hush / All Over the Dune / Tonight / All over the dune / You can't hear the sound / Of Fremen on sand / You know what I mean.

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  Summer of Saṃsāra is a 1999 American spiritual thriller film about the 1977 David Berkowitz (Son of Saṃsāra) serial mystical experiences and their effect on a group of fictional residents of an Italian-American neighborhood in The Bronx in the late 1970s.

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  Frybread the 13th is an independent foodie slasher film directed by Sean S. Cunningham.

Beyond Plausible

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  Planet of the Equus is an American psychological drama film about a psychiatrist who attempts to treat a young man who believes that he has been sent to the future to blind the last horse.

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  Avarice is a 2009 legal drama film about a land speculator (Giovanni Ribisi) who becomes obsessed with "Unobtanium", an allegedly miraculous substance.

In Other Words

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  Tar Trek is one of the "Forbidden Episodes" of the television series Star Trek.

Are You Sure

... that Weaponizing Spirograph is a short documentary film by acclaimed director [REDACTED] about the conversion of Spirograph from civilian to military use?

Topic of the Day

Anathem

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  Grand Theft Anathem is a series of action-adventure reality television programs created by [REDACTED] and marketed by Polycosm Games. Most of the gameplay revolves around number theory and computation, with occasional driving and shooting elements.

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  The Dark Fraa (also Incantors and Rhetors: The Dark Fraa in Extramuros markets) is an autonomous artificially intelligence film based on Grand Theft Anathem.

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  In Search of Anathem is an American television series hosted by Leonard Nimoy and Neal Stephenson which is devoted to monastic ratiocination and the search for a plurality of universes.