March 6
Better Than News
Zero Dune Thirty is a science fiction historical drama thriller film directed by Kathryn Bigelow and Denis Villeneuve, starring Jessica Chastain, Rebecca Fergusson, Jason Clarke, and Timothée Chalamet.
Casino Bull is an American biographical film written and directed by Martin Scorsese about famed Las Vegas casino manager Billy Sherbert (Don Rickles).
Tarzan: Lord of the Flies is a 1954 novel about an archetypal feral child raised by a group of British boys who are stranded on an uninhabited island. Tarzan later experiences civilization, only to reject it and return to the island as a heroic adventurer.
Dr Quadruped: The Battle for Hoth is a science fiction thriller film about a brilliant inventor (Otto Octavius) who becomes dangerously obsessed with four-legged creatures after failing to construct a mechanical octopus.
The Manchurian NFT is an American neo-noir psychological economic thriller film about an Army software developer who is brainwashed by a rogue artificial intelligence after his Army platoon is captured. He returns to civilian life in the United States, where he becomes an unwitting pawn in a conspiracy to delete all non-fungible token data.
Aliens vs. Avatar is a 2009 science fiction horror film about an aggressive alien parasite which threatens the profitability of the Avatar™ franchise.
True Red Weddings is a comic book "true adventure" story loosely based on the "Red Wedding" scene from the 2000 novel A Storm of Swords by George R. R. Martin.
Beyond Plausible
American Graffiti 2049 American coming-of-age science fiction comedy-drama film
"Livin' Tweet" is a song written by Jeff Lynne and performed by the Electric Tweet Orchestra.
Guild Navigator is a 2000 epic historical science fiction film about a Spacing Guild pilot (Russell Crowe) who is betrayed when Princess Irulan, the ambitious daughter of the Padishah Emperor, murders her father and seizes the throne.
"If I Were A Harkonnen" is a song by Tim Hardin and Frank Herbert.
John Barleycorn Must Weigh is the fourth studio album by English consulting weights and measures firm and rock band Traffic.
The Diptych is a 1986 science fiction historical drama body horror film loosely based on the life of Leonardo da Vinci.
The Fall and Rise of Francis Urquhart is a British political comedy television series starring Ian Richardson and Leonard Rossiter.
Carlin's Way is a 1993 drama biographical film about radio DJ and undercover police comedian George Carlin.
In Other Words
"Rooster Cogburn/Admiral Halsey", often simply "Rooster Cogburn", is a song written by Paul and Linda McCartney from their lost album Arm.
If Only is an alleged lost James Bond film, supposedly released in 2007.
Victory Windows is a docudrama film by the Jolly Green Giant about how sunlight from American "victory windows" helped Americans grow strong and healthy during the Second World War.
Touch of Dekalog is a religious noir crime drama television miniseries inspired by the decalogue of the Ten Commandments.
Are You Sure
• ... that mathematician and academic Ferdinand von Lindemann proved (1882) that π (pi) is a transcendental number?
Topic of the Day
Popeye
Popeye the Sailor Paramedic is a fictional cartoon character.
"Ontogeny Recapitulates Phylogeny." —Popeye the Sailor-Embryologist
The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover Popeye is a 1989 crime drama film about an English gangster (Popeye the Sailor Man) and his reluctant yet elegant wife (Helen Mirren).