March 6
Better Than News
To Live and Die in Platoon is an American neo-noir war-crime thriller film written and directed by Oliver Stone and William Friedkin, and starring Willem Dafoe, Tom Berenger, William Petersen, Charlie Sheen, John Pankow, and Darlanne Fluegel.
Martian Grime-Tip is an analysis of interplanetary pollution abatement projects by American sociologist Philip K. Dick, author of The Man on the High Trash-Hill.
True Red Weddings is a comic book "true adventure" story loosely based on the "Red Wedding" scene from the 2000 novel A Storm of Swords by George R. R. Martin.
Zero Dune Thirty is a science fiction historical drama thriller film directed by Kathryn Bigelow and Denis Villeneuve, starring Jessica Chastain, Rebecca Fergusson, Jason Clarke, and Timothée Chalamet.
Beyond Plausible
American Graffiti 2049 American coming-of-age science fiction comedy-drama film
Guild Navigator is a 2000 epic historical science fiction film about a Spacing Guild pilot (Russell Crowe) who is betrayed when Princess Irulan, the ambitious daughter of the Padishah Emperor, murders her father and seizes the throne.
"If I Were A Harkonnen" is a song by Tim Hardin and Frank Herbert.
John Barleycorn Must Weigh is the fourth studio album by English consulting weights and measures firm and rock band Traffic.
Carlin's Way is a 1993 drama biographical film about radio DJ and undercover police comedian George Carlin.
In Other Words
If Only is an alleged lost James Bond film, supposedly released in 2007.
Are You Sure
• ... that mathematician and academic Ferdinand von Lindemann proved (1882) that π (pi) is a transcendental number?
Topic of the Day
Popeye
Popeye the Sailor Paramedic is a fictional cartoon character.
"Ontogeny Recapitulates Phylogeny." —Popeye the Sailor-Embryologist
The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover Popeye is a 1989 crime drama film about an English gangster (Popeye the Sailor Man) and his reluctant yet elegant wife (Helen Mirren).
