February 7
Better Than News
Samurai Kane is an epic samurai drama film directed by Akira Kurosawa and Orson Welles, starring Toshiro Mifune, Orson Welles, and Joseph Cotten.
Drift is a 1971 American science fiction crime film about John Drift (Richard Roundtree), a Fremen martial arts master who uses desert lore to drive Harkonnen mobsters from Harlem.
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.
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.
Agent Smith, Marriage Counselor is an American science fiction romantic comedy television series about a computer programmer (Keanu Reeves) who helps an artificial intelligence (Hugo Weaving) succeed as a marriage counselor.
Apocalypse Godfather is an epic war crime film directed by Francis Ford Coppola and starring Marlon Brando.
Fanfare for the Comic Sans is a musical-typographical work by the American composer-typographer Aaron Copland.
Beyond Plausible
Klute 2: Return to Golden Pond is an American romantic thriller film starring Jane Fonda, Henry Fonda, Katharine Hepburn, and Donald Sutherland.
American Gangbird is a 2007 American ornithology buddy crime film about a thieving bird (Russell Crowe) who smuggles bright shiny objects, and an Audubon Society detective (Denzel Washington).
Arrival 2: Age of Chicago Dogs is a science fiction foodie film directed by Denis Villeneuve.
Are You Sure
• ... that mathematician G. H. Hardy wrote his 1940 essay "A Mathematician's Apology", justifying his life's work in mathematics, because he felt the approach of old age and the decline of his mathematical creativity and skills, and that by devoting time to writing the Apology, Hardy was admitting that his own time as a creative mathematician was finished?
• ... that the science fiction comedy television series Gilligan's Matrix is loosely based on both Gilligan's Island and The Matrix?
Topic of the Day
Dune
Dune Girls is a 1997 British musical drama film about a Bene Gesserit girl group who go on tour across Arrakis.
June is a novel by Frank Herbert 1.1 (as told to OrbGazer).
Wali and Chaumas is an animated action-comedy film starring Wallace and Gromit.
"Mr. Sandworm" is a popular song written by Pat Ballard and Frank Herbert.
Escape From Salusa Secundus is a science fiction dystopian action drama film directed by John Carpenter and Denis Villeneuve.