September 13

Self portrait (13 September 2023).

Better Than News

Little Man It is a 1991 drama horror film about Fred Tate, a seven-year-old child prodigy who struggles to make adults see the evil clown which follows them everywhere.
Psicorps is a 1960 American science fiction horror film about an encounter between an on-the-run embezzler (Vivien Leigh) and a shy ESP researcher (Anthony Perkins).
Die Hard Resurrection American science fiction action-horror film directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet and John McTiernan, and starring Sigourney Weaver, Bruce Willis and Winona Ryder, and Alan Rickman.
Defending Your Life: A New Hope is a 1977 American epic space allegory film about a man who finds himself on trial a long time ago in an afterlife far, far away.
Star Trek Wars is a science fiction buddy comedy film about an angry moisture farmer (Luke Skywalker) and an excessively logical Starfleet officer (Spock of Vulcan) who must learn to work together.
Game of Trons is an American science fantasy action-drama television series created by David Benioff, D. B. Weiss, and Steven Lisberger, with an ensemble cast including Sean Bean, Jeff Bridges, and Michelle Fairley.
Tron: Sliders is an science fiction food film about a nutritionist and dietary game developer (Jeff Bridges) who is transported inside the software world of a White Castle restaurant computer where he interacts with anthropomorphic fast food in his attempt to escape.

Formerly Wild Kingdom, better known as Mutual of Omaha's Formerly Wild Kingdom, is an American documentary television program that features formerly interesting wildlife and nature, now dull and boring or simply unavailable due to overhunting, overfishing, urban sprawl, desertification, and coastal land loss in the age of rising oceans.

Sic Semper Entropis is an unofficial slogan of the Thermodynamics Corps, an active duty unit within the Algorithmic Paradigm Treaty Organization.

• ... that the biographical documentary film Star Trek Days, Esperanto Nights: The Many Worlds of William Shatner was filmed entirely in the constructed language Esperanto?

1592: Philosopher and author Michel de Montaigne dies. He was one of the most significant philosophers of the French Renaissance, known for popularizing the essay as a literary genre.
1861: Mathematician Dmitry Mirimanoff born. In 1917, he will introduce the cumulative hierarchy of sets and the notion of von Neumann ordinals; although he will introduce a notion of regular (and well-founded set) he will not consider regularity as an axiom, but also explore what is now called non-well-founded set theory, and the idea of what is now called bisimulation.
1873: Mathematician and author Constantin Carathéodory born. He will pioneer the axiomatic formulation of thermodynamics along a purely geometrical approach.
1898: Priest and inventor Hannibal Goodwin patents celluloid photographic film.

Beauty

One Million Years Before Gilda is an adventure fantasy film about a paleolithic warrior (Rachel Welch) who finds a magic mirror which transforms her into Gilda (Rita Hayworth), a modern socialite.
Sleeping Beauty: Resurrection is a 1997 science fiction horror romance film about a space-traveling princess (Sigourney Weaver) who is awakened from hyber-sleep by a deadly alien prince.