July 5
Better Than News
Stardust Liaisons is a period romantic fantasy adventure film directed by Stephen Frears and Matthew Vaughn.
Zardoz Unchained is a revisionist science fiction Western film written and directed by John Boorman and Quentin Tarantino, and starring Sean Connery and Jamie Foxx.
The Little Barmaid is a 1989 American animated musical fantasy film about a teenage mermaid princess named Ariel, who dreams of becoming human lead her to fall in with a rough crowd at the Mos Eisley Cantina on Tatooine.
Cocaine Bear 2: Sideways Picnic is an American comedy-drama road film directed by Alexander Payne and Elizabeth Banks.
"Coppertunities (Let's Mint Lots of Money)" is a song by English synth-pop duo Pet Shop Coins from their debut studio album, Planchets (1986).
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On This Day in Fiction and Nonfiction
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Planet of the Tweets is a 2022 American science fiction film about an astronaut (Charlton Heston) who crash-lands on a strange planet in the distant future where humans have been replaced by Twitter posts.
"Don't tweet like one of them. You're not! Even if you'd like to be. To them, you're just a freak, like me. They need your creativity right now, but when they don't, they'll block your account, like a leper. You see, their morals, their code, it's a bad joke. Dropped at the first sign of trouble. They're only as good as the world allows them to tweet. I'll show you. When the chips are down, these ... these linear people, they will tweet without you. See, I'm not a monster. I'm just ahead of the verb." (The Dark Tweet.)
Soylent Tweet is a 1973 American ecological dystopian social media film about the investigation into the murder of a wealthy Twitter influencer, set in a dystopian future of overpopulation, pollution, depleted resources, dying oceans, and year-round humidity, due to the Tweethouse effect.