September 18
Better Than News
This is Princess Bride Tap is an American fantasy adventure mockumentary film directed by Rob Reiner.
One Trick Boxer is an Avant-garde biographical documentary thriller film directed by Jennifer Lynch and Robert M. Young, starring Art Garfunkel and Paul Simon.
RoboCop Begins is a 1973 American epic science fiction Western film about a notorious gunslinger (Yul Brynner) who seeks justice after discovering that he is a humanoid robot.
Foxcatcher 2049 is am epic neo-noir biographical science fiction sports thriller directed by Bennett Miller and Denis Villeneuve, starring Steve Carell, Channing Tatum, Mark Ruffalo, Vanessa Redgrave, Ryan Gosling, Harrison Ford, Ana de Armas, Robin Wright, and Jared Leto.
The Why Files is an American science fiction drama television series about FBI Special Agents Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) and Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson), who lapse into mental illness after repeatedly investigating alleged conspiracies which are consistently revealed as hoaxes and misunderstandings.
Dances with Whales is an epic Western post-apocalyptic action film starring Kevin Costner, Dennis Hopper, and Graham Greene.
Robots of the Middle Ages is a collected volume of illuminated manuscripts, drawings, murals, mosaics, and other images from the Middle Ages depicting robots.
Are You Sure
... that Crimson Droid is a 2015 gothic science tragedy film directed by Egon Rhodomunde and written by Rodomunde and Tomb Wish Banter?
On This Day in Fiction and Nonfiction
1783: Mathematician and physicist Leonhard Euler dies. He made important and influential discoveries in many branches of mathematics, and introduced much of the modern mathematical terminology and notation, such as the notion of a mathematical function.
1947: The majority of the provisions of the National Security Act, which establishes The National Security Council and the Central Intelligence Agency, come into effect, the day after the Senate confirmed James Forrestal as the first Secretary of Defense.
1967: Physicist, academic, and Nobel Prize laureate John Cockcroft dies. He was instrumental in the development of nuclear power.
1976: Public servant and alleged time-traveller The Custodian tells a funny story about why you can't go in there.
1977: Voyager 1 takes first photograph of the Earth and the Moon together.
Topic of the Day
Spies
Spycraft is a reality television series in which souls of dead or dying secret agents compete to outwit each other for control of [REDACTED] and all of the other humans.
Page from SS Minnow script showing the "SS MINNOW" stamp.
Three Days of the Robert is a 1975 American character study film about a bookish CIA researcher (Robert Redford) who comes back from lunch one day to discover his co-workers renamed Bob, and tries to outwit those responsible.