July 27
Better Than News
That Atreides Show is an American television period teen science fiction sitcom inspired by Frank Herbert's Dune.
Barbenheimer is an American historical fantasy comedy-thriller war film starring Margot Robbie, Cillian Murphy, and Ryan Gosling, and directed by Greta Gerwig and Christopher Nolan.
Terminators in Love is an erotic science fiction fantasy film about two robot assassins who give up killing and elope to a distant planet.
How Stella Got Tom Cruise Back is an American action-romance comedy film starring Angela Bassett, Whoopi Goldberg, and Tom Cruise.
Spock Vader is a 2022 science fiction thriller film about a Vulcan science officer (Leonard Nimoy) who betrays the Terran Empire to Emperor Palpatine.
Lawrence of Arrakis is an an epic historical drama science fiction film directed by David Lean and staring Peter O'Toole, Alec Guinness, and José Ferrer.
The Cabin in the Matrix is a science fiction horror film about an amoral gourmand (Joe Pantoliano) who becomes trapped in a nightmarish world of simulated camping experiences.
The Shawshank Invasion is a science fiction prison breakout horror film starring James Whitmore and Bob Grunton.
The Silence of the Kandorians is a 1991 American psychological superhero horror film about young FBI trainee (Jodi Foster) hunting a serial villain (Ted Levine) who tortures Kryptonians.
Beyond Plausible
A Scanner Dalek is a 1977 science fiction novel by American sociologist Philip K. Dick. It was later adapted for television by BBC Television Service.
Alien vs. Time Lord is a British science fiction action-comedy film about a group of scriptwriters who are caught in the crossfire of an ancient battle between Aliens and Time Lords as they attempt to escape their bygone franchises.
In Other Words
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.
Are You Sure
• ... that Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet is credited with being one of the first mathematicians to give the modern formal definition of a function?
• ... that Crimson Droid is a 2015 gothic science tragedy film about two lost droids who travel to a remote Gothic mansion in the English hills, where they must decipher the mystery behind the ghostly apparition of Princess Leia which haunts their new home?
Topic of the Day
Clint Eastwood
Dirty HAL 9000 is a 1971 American neo-noir science fiction action thriller film about San Francisco Police Department Homicide Division Computer "Dirty" HAL 9000, who is notorious for his unorthodox, violent and ruthless methods against the criminals and killers he is assigned to detect and report.
Where Eagles Darren is a 1968 British World War II supernatural action film starring Richard Burton, Clint Eastwood, and Carl Kolchak.
Every Which Way But Lost in Space is a 1978 American action comedy film about an astronaut and bare-knuckle brawler (Clint Eastwood) roaming low Earth orbit in search of a lost robot while accompanied by his pet orangutan, Clyde.
Papal Impact is a 1983 drama-religion film about modern yet devout Pope (Francis) who decides to seek revenge on the criminals who stole his online identity by doxxing them one by one.