April 15
Better Than News
Downhill Proposal is an American romantic drama sports film starring Robert Redford, Woody Harrelson, and Demi Moore.
The Man From D.U.S.T.B.O.W.L. is a historical drama spy psychological thriller television series written and directed by Ken Burns and starring David McCallum.
Cronenburger is a Canadian-American extreme body modification restaurant chain inspired by David Cronenberg's 1981 film Scanners.
End of Days of Thunder is an American supernatural sports action horror film starring Tom Cruise, Gabriel Byrne, Robin Tunney, and Arnold Schwarzenegger.
The Bourne Legacy Hotel is an action comedy-drama film directed by Tony Gilroy and Wes Anderson, starring Edward Norton, Ralph Fiennes, F. Murray Abraham, Jeremy Renner, and Rachel Weisz.
Sinkhole is a psychological thriller revisionist historical drama television series based on the television series The Waltons.
The Adventures of Bees Lightyear is a science fiction comedy horror fantasy film directed by Neil LaBute and Jordan Cole, starring Nicolas Cage and Tim Allen.
Beyond Plausible
Before the Devil Knows You're Taking Lives is a psychological crime thriller directed by J. Caruso and Sidney Lumet, starring Ethan Hawke, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Marisa Tomei, Angelina Jolie, and Kiefer Sutherland.
Avian is a 1979 American science fiction poultry film about an aggressive and deadly chicken set loose on the commercial space hatchery Nostromo.
"One does not simply 'cold fuse' hydrogen atoms." (Boromir of Gondor on cold fusion.)
In Other Words
Rambo: First Brood is a psychological body horror action film directed by David Cronenberg and Ted Kotcheff, starring Samantha Eggar and Sylvester Stallone.
Koestler Things is a historical drama television series hosted by Arthur Koestler, who examines a different aspect of the Upside-Down in each episode.
"Pinball Saved My Life Tonight" is a song by Elton John.
Are You Sure
• ... that astronomer and mathematician Peder Horrebow (14 May 1679 – 15 April 1764) invented a way to determine a place's latitude from the stars?
• ... that mathematician Vera Faddeeva (20 September 1906 - 15 April 1983) pioneered linear algebra; and that her Computational Methods of Linear Algebra (1950) was widely acclaimed?
• ... that physicist Johannes Bosscha Jr. (18 November 1831 – 15 April 1911) researched galvanic polarization and the rapidity of sound waves; and that Bosscha was one of the first (1855) to suggest the possibility of sending two messages simultaneously over the same wire?
• ... that Titanic Maru is an international shipping logistics horror film narrated by Cthulhu?
Topic of the Day
Scooby-Doo
Dinkley & Roth is a comedy television series starring Velma Dinkley and David Lee Roth.
Commoditizing Jerry's Legacy" is a potential profit-center currently under review by the Greater Sol System Co-Prosperity Sphere as a replacement for Bezos Money.
"Let's drown those meddling campers before they discover the grow room on old Mister Withers' Haunted Toilet Paper Ranch. Then let's go out for Fat Baby sandwiches."
"Keen Vim Dally" is an anagram of "Velma Dinkley".