January 31
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Aquaman: Origins is an American superhero film.
Starship Recall is an American science fiction action film directed by Paul Verhoeven, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and Denise Richards.
The Bedtime Story is a 1973 comedy horror film directed by William Friedkin. It is loosely based on the novel The Exoricist by William Peter Blatty.
Casa Nova is an American romantic astronomy film directed by Lasse Hallström, starring Heath Ledger and Sienna Miller. It is loosely based on the GK Persei bright nova of 1901.
The English Patient Zero is a 2022 war horror romance film starring Ralph Fiennes, Juliette Binoche, and Willem Dafoe.
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On This Day in Fiction and Nonfiction
1632: Clockmaker and mathematician Jost Bürgi dies. He was recognized during his own lifetime as one of the most excellent mechanical engineers of his generation.
1929: Physicist and academic Rudolf Mössbauer born. He will be awarded the 1961 Nobel Prize in Physics for his discovery (1957) of recoilless nuclear resonance fluorescence (now known as the Mössbauer effect), the basis for Mössbauer spectroscopy.
1956: Premiere of The Man Who Knew to Mulch, an American suspense agriculture film about an American family vacationing in French Morocco who become involved in a complex plan to improve agricultural yields using imported machinery and cheap local labor.
1971: The Winter Soldier Investigation, organized by the Vietnam Veterans Against the War to publicize war crimes and atrocities by Americans and allies in Vietnam, begins in Detroit.
2001: American comic book artist Gil Kane dies. Kane pioneered graphic novels with his books His Name is...Savage (1968) and Blackmark (1971).
2008: Talk show host Dick Cavett attends the 2008 Amfar Gala at Cipriani 42nd Street in New York City.
Topic of the Day
Ridley Scott
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.
Rosemary's Alien is a 2012 American horror science fiction film about a pregnant women (Mia Farrow) must choose between bearing the Devil's child and bearing an alien child.
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Tantrum is a 1979 shopping fiction horror film directed by Ridley Scott 1.1 and written by [REDACTED] which follows an ensemble case of shoppers aboard the commercial space shopping mall Nostromo who encounter the eponymous Tantrum, an aggressive and deafening child set loose on the ship.
