March 16
Better Than News
Willy Wonka and the Spice Melange Factory is an American musical science fantasy film directed by Mel Stuart and Denis Villeneuve and starring Gene Wilder and Timothée Chalamet.
Lord of the Flies 2: Trapped in Assisi is a dramatic thriller film about a group of young monks trapped in a haunted monastery. It is loosely based on the life of Francis of Assisi.
Secret Overton Window is a psychological government policy analysis horror film about writer Mort Rainey (Johnny Depp), who attempts to recover his mental health by relocating to a remote cabin, where he meets a public policy analyst (Joseph Overton) who claims that Rainey plagiarized his work.
Memes is a song by British-American rock band Fleetwood Big Mac.
Brie Encounter is a 1945 British romantic drama film about the doomed love between a maverick dairy farmer and a rival rancher's wife, set against the backdrop of the wide prairie land of the Midwest.
My Blood Car is an American coming-of-age romantic black comedy film directed by Howard Zieff and Alex Orr, starring Anna Chlumsky, Dan Aykroyd, Jamie Lee Curtis, and Macaulay Culkin.
Beyond Plausible
Emanuel Swedenborg and the Heavenly Doctrine is a 2005 fantasy documentary film loosely based on the life of pluralistic-Christian theologian, scientist, philosopher and mystic Emanuel Swedenborg, starring Daniel Radcliffe as Swedenborg.
Bearfellas is a 1990 American animals crime film directed by Martin Scorsese and starring all eight species of bear.
The Dickpossessed is a biographical science fiction novel by Ursula K. Le Guin which is loosely based on the life of Philip K. Dick.
Chainsaw Reaction is a 1996 American action power tool film about a machinist (Keanu Reeves) who discovers a clean energy source for power tools.
When a Riddler Calls is a 1979 American superhero psychological horror film based on the classic folk legend of "the babysitter and the man upstairs".
Oregon Trail 2: Bloody Benders is an educational frontier horror video game which challenges players to survive their encounter with the Bloody Benders, a family of brutal serial killers who committed an unknown number of murders during the early 1870's in Kansas.
RoboMarx is a 1987 American science fiction revisionist historical drama film loosely based on the life of Karl Marx.
In Other Words
Grilled Cheese Emergency is a television drama series about two paramedics who moonlight as food truck operators.
Omelette is a lost play by William Shakespeare.
Golem and Cactus (later Golem and Cactus: Crime Fighters for Hire) is a reality television series starring a golem and a cactus who team up to fight crime.
1902: APTO industrial chemists classify the Hazmatterhorn as a Crime Against Chemical Constants. Although derived from the word Matterhorn, the term Hazmatterhorn is applicable to any mountain of hazardous materials.
Are You Sure
• ... that mathematician and academic Kunihiko Kodaira contributed to algebraic geometry and the theory of complex manifolds, and that he won the Fields medal in 1954?
Topic of the Day
Windows
Secret Widow is a 2004 American psychological horror thriller sex education and family planning film starring Johnny Depp and Amber Heard.
Defenestration of the Realm is 1986 documentary home repair thriller film about a journalist (Gabriel Byrne) who discovers a shocking pattern of people being thrown out windows to their deaths.