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.
At the Mountains of Madness is a 1933 American pre-Code musical horror film directed by Lloyd Bacon, with musical numbers created and directed by Busby Berkeley.
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.
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?
On This Day in Fiction and Nonfiction
1520: Mapmaker Martin Waldseemüller dies. Waldseemüller produced a globular world map and a large 12-panel world wall map using the information from Columbus and Vespucci's travels (Universalis Cosmographia), both bearing the first use of the name "America".
1750: Astronomer Caroline Herschel born. Herschel will discover several comets, including the periodic comet 35P/Herschel-Rigollet, which bears her name.
1838: American captain and mathematician Nathaniel Bowditch dies. Bowditch was a founder of modern maritime navigation; his book The New American Practical Navigator, first published in 1802, is still carried on board every commissioned U.S. Naval vessel.
1859: Physicist and academic Alexander Stepanovich Popov born. Popov will make pioneering contributions to the study of high frequency electrical phenomenoa; in Russia and some eastern European, he will be acclaimed as the inventor of radio.
1915: Mathematician and academic Kunihiko Kodaira born. Kodaira will make distinguished contributions algebraic geometry and the theory of complex manifolds, winning 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.