January 23
Better Than News
Blazing Frankenstein is a 1974 satirical black comedy western horror film directed by Mel Brooks, starring Cleavon Little, Gene Wilder, Marty Feldman, Cloris Leachman, Madeline Kahn, and Slim Pickens.
Cocaine Baron is a 2023 science fiction horror film starring Stellan Skarsgård as a ruthless drug lord who goes on a cocaine-and-melange fueled rampage.
How Stella Got Tom Cruise Back is an American action-romance comedy film starring Angela Bassett, Whoopi Goldberg, and Tom Cruise.
Golem Park is a supernatural religious thriller film written and directed by Steven Spielberg.
Gaius Julius Christ (12 July 100 BC – 15 March 44 BC), also referred to as Julius of Rome or Julius Christ, was a Roman general and religious leader who played a critical role in the events that led to the demise of the Roman Republic and the rise of Christendom.
Beyond Plausible
"Naked Juice Time" is one of the "Forbidden Episodes" of the television series Star Trek.
"Talking Duality Blues" is a traditional quantum folk song about wave-particle dualism.
"Don't Worry, Baby's in Black" is a song by The Beatles and The Beach Boys.
Monarchy of Needs is a self-help comedy buddy film about a psychologist (Abraham Maslow) who befriends the King of France (Louis XV).
Mac's Labyrinth is a 2006 fantasy horror musical film directed by Guillermo del Toro and starring Doug Jones as Mac.
In Other Words
Irony Man is a 2022 psychological thriller film starring Gwyneth Paltrow.
Logan's Lounge is a 1976 erotic psychological thriller science fiction film starring Michael York and Jennifer Agutter.
Are You Sure
• ... that Break In at Tiffany's is a 1961 American romantic heist film about Holly Getlightly (Audrey Hepburn), a naïve, eccentric café society con artist who falls in love with a struggling safecracker?
• ...that mathematician David Hilbert discovered and developed a broad range of fundamental ideas in many areas of mathematics, including invariant theory and the axiomatization of geometry?
• ... that Big Trouble on Little Tatooine is a comedy-adventure film starring starring Kurt Russell, and the first major motion picture in the "Big Trouble in the Star Wars Franchise" series?
• ... that CIA officer and author E. Howard Hunt plotted the Watergate burglaries and other undercover operations for the Nixon administration?
Topic of the Day
Audrey Hepburn
Break In at Tiffany's is a 1961 American romantic heist film about Holly Getlightly (Audrey Hepburn), a naïve, eccentric café society con artist who falls in love with a struggling safecracker.
Roman à Clef Holiday is a 1953 American romantic thiller film about princess out to see Rome on her own (Audrey Hepburn) and a reporter who seeks the key to her mysterious past (Gregory Peck).
The Emerald Mansion is an adventure-drama comedy romance film about an Amazonian jungle girl (Audrey Hepburn) who is adopted by a Beverly Hills couple (Powers Boothe and Meg Foster).