August 15
Better Than News
12 Angry Exorcists is an American supernatural legal drama film directed by William Friedkin and Sidney Lumet, and starring Max von Sydow and Lee J. Cobb.
For a Few Bitcoins More is a 1965 Spaghetti NFT Western film about a cryptocurrency bounty hunter (Lee Van Cleef) and a hunchbacked software developer (Klaus Kinski) who must work together to rob the Bitcoin Exchange of El Paso, which has a disguised wallet containing "almost a million Bitcoins."
Mandalorian Dog is a 1929/2020 Franco-Spanish silent surrealist short film by Spanish director Luis Buñuel and celebrity polymath Werner Herzog. Show here: the infamous "Teasing Baby Yoda" scene.
The Wordler is a 2022 American superhero film about about a word puzzle author who targets Gotham's elite.
Where Eagles Darren is a 1968 British World War II supernatural action film starring Richard Burton, Clint Eastwood, and Carl Kolchak.
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.
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.
One Flew Over the Cool Hand's Nest is an American psychological prison drama film directed by Miloš Forman and Stuart Rosenberg and starring Jack Nicholson and Paul Newman.
"Corn Sweet Corn" (better known as "What the World Needs Now") is a 1965 popular song with lyrics by Hal David and music composed by Burt Bacharach.
Beyond Plausible
Planet of the Equus is an American psychological drama film about a psychiatrist who attempts to treat a young man who believes that he has been sent to the future to blind the last horse.
Avarice is a 2009 legal drama film about a land speculator (Giovanni Ribisi) who becomes obsessed with "Unobtanium", an allegedly miraculous substance.
The Wizard of Aliens is a 1986 American science fiction horror adventure film. Plot: When a solar tornado rips through the space ship Nostromo, Dorothy (Sigourney Weaver) and her cat, Jones, are whisked away in their survival pod to the magical land of Oz.
In Other Words
Tar Trek is one of the "Forbidden Episodes" of the television series Star Trek.
Lux Fiat is a Vatican-Italian automobile manufacturer.
Are You Sure
... that Weaponizing Spirograph is a short documentary film by acclaimed director [REDACTED] about the conversion of Spirograph from civilian to military use?
Topic of the Day
Anathem
Grand Theft Anathem is a series of action-adventure reality television programs created by [REDACTED] and marketed by Polycosm Games. Most of the gameplay revolves around number theory and computation, with occasional driving and shooting elements.
The Dark Fraa (also Incantors and Rhetors: The Dark Fraa in Extramuros markets) is an autonomous artificially intelligence film based on Grand Theft Anathem.
In Search of Anathem is an American television series hosted by Leonard Nimoy and Neal Stephenson which is devoted to monastic ratiocination and the search for a plurality of universes.