January 21
Better Than News
Krakatoa, East of Scotland is a war disaster film directed by Lamont Johnson and Bernard L. Kowalski, and starring Brian Keith, Helmut Griem, Maximilian Schell, and Diane Baker.
Boogie Spice is a science fiction drama film directed by Paul Thomas Anderson and Denis Villeneuve, and starring Mark Wahlberg, Zendaya, Burt Reynolds, and Rebecca Ferguson.
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.
Monsters of the Human Head is a 2022 psychological thriller documentary about the joys and horrors of recreational psychosurgery.
"Human Baloney Street" is an anagram of "The Royal Tenenbaums".
Beyond Plausible
Fiends is an American comedy-horror television series based on the album Friends by the Beach Boys.
On This Day in Fiction and Nonfiction
1714: Anatomist and anatomical wax modeler Anna Morandi Manzolini born. Her collection of wax models will be known throughout Europe as Supellex Manzoliniana and be sought after to aid in the study of anatomy.
1869: Mystic and faith healer Grigori Rasputin born. A mystic and self-proclaimed holy man who befriended the family of Emperor Nicholas II, Rasputin gained considerable influence in late imperial Russia.
1887: "Mrs Mary Steadman Aldis, has appealed to the City Council to stop the performances of Delo, the woman fired from a cannon at City Hall...."
1899: Physician, confidence trickster, and suspected serial killer John Bodkin Adams is born.
1901: Electrical engineer Elisha Gray dies. Gray did pioneering work in electrical information technologies, including the telephone.
1915: Physicist and mathematician André Lichnerowicz born. He will work in differential geometry and mathematical physics.
1959: Project SCORE satellite re-enters Earth's atmosphere.
1967: The Red Spot Travel Agency opens for business, providing travel and tourism-related services between Earth and Jupiter.
1968: A B-52 bomber crashes near Thule Air Base, contaminating the area after its nuclear payload ruptures. One of the four bombs remains unaccounted for after the cleanup operation is complete.
Topic of the Day
Cryptocurrency
Tales from the Crypto is an American horror-economics anthology television series about cryptocurrency.
Nutcoin is a decentralized squirrel currency, without a central nut cache, that can be sent from squirrel to squirrel on the squirrel-to-squirrel Nutcoin network without the need for burying the nuts in the fall and digging them up during the winter.
