Thursday, February 5, 2026

On this day in music history:

Voila by Belinda Carlisle (2007)
Miss Understood by Carolyn Wonderland (2008)


Voila
Album by Belinda Carlisle,
released February 5, 2007.
Track list: Ma Jeunesse Fout Le Camp; Bonnie et Clyde; Avec le Temps; Sous le Ciel de Paris; Des Ronds Dans L’eau; Pourtant Tu M’aimes; Ne Me Quitte Pas; La Vie en Rose; Contact; Merci Cherie; Jezebel.


Miss Understood
Album by Carolyn Wonderland,
released February 5, 2008.
Track list: Misunderstood; I Found the Lions; Bad Girl Blues; Walk on; Still Alive and Well; Long Way to Go; Trouble in the City; Throw My Love; I Live Alone with Someone; The Farmer Song; Feed Me to the Lions; I Don’t Want to Fall for You.

On this day in movie history - Payback (1999):


Payback

directed by Brian Helgeland,
written by Brian Helgeland and Terry Hayes,
based on the novel The Hunter by Richard Stark,
was released in the United States on February 5, 1999.
Music by Chris Boardman and Scott Stambler.


Cast:

Mel Gibson, Gregg Henry, Maria Bello, Lucy Alexis Liu, Deborah Kara Unger, David Paymer, Bill Duke, Jack Conley, John Glover, William Devane, James Coburn, Kris Kristofferson, Trevor St. John, Freddy Rodriguez, Manu Tupou.

On this day in the Star Trek universe:

Star Trek: The Next Generation (1994)
Star Trek: Voyager (1996 & 1997)
Star Trek: Enterprise (2003)


Star Trek: The Next Generation
Season 7. Episode 15.
Episode entitled: Lower Decks.
Released February 5, 1994.
Directed by Gabrielle Beaumont.
Written by René Echevarria, Ronald Wilkerson, Jean Louise Matthias, Naren Shankar.
Created by Gene Roddenberry.
Music by Jay Chattaway.
Cast: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn, Gates McFadden, Marina Sirtis, Brent Spiner, Dan Gauthier, Shannon Fill, Alexander Enberg, Bruce Beatty, Patti Yasutake, Don Reilly, David Keith Anderson, Lena Banks, Michael Braveheart, Cameron, Tracee Cocco, John Copage, Debbie David, Elliot Durant III, Gunnel Eriksson, Holiday Freeman, Keith Gearhart, Linda Harcharic, Gary Hunter, Rad Milo, Joyce Robinson, John Alex Tampoya, Oliver Theess.


Star Trek: Voyager
Season 2. Episode 16.
Episode entitled: Meld.
Released February 5, 1996.
Directed by Cliff Bole.
Created by Rick Berman, Michael Piller, Jeri Taylor.
Written by Michael Piller, Michael Sussman, Kenneth Biller, Lisa Klink.
Based on Star Trek, created by Gene Roddenberry.
Music by David Bell.
Cast: Kate Mulgrew, Robert Beltran, Roxann Biggs-Dawson, Jennifer Lien, Robert Duncan McNeill, Ethan Phillips, Robert Picardo, Tim Russ, Garrett Wang, Brad Dourif, Angela Dohrmann, Simon Billig, Majel Barrett, Johnetta Anderson, John Copage, Damaris Cordelia, Debbie David, Tarik Ergin, Heather Ferguson, Susan Henley, Kerry Hoyt, Bob Mascagno, Karole Nellis, Louis Ortiz, Shepard Ross, Simon Stotler, John Alex Tampoya.

Star Trek: Voyager
Season 3. Episode 16.
Episode entitled: Blood Fever.
Released February 5, 1997.
Directed by Andrew Robinson.
Created by Rick Berman, Michael Piller, Jeri Taylor.
Written by Lisa Klink.
Based on Star Trek, created by Gene Roddenberry.
Music by Jay Chattaway.
Cast: Kate Mulgrew, Robert Beltran, Roxann Biggs-Dawson, Jennifer Lien, Robert Duncan McNeill, Ethan Phillips, Robert Picardo, Tim Russ, Garrett Wang, Alexander Enberg, Bruce Bohne, Deborah Levin, Elle Alexander, Ted Barba, Tarik Ergin, Jennifer Gundy, Louis Ortiz, Amy Jo Traicoff.


Star Trek: Enterprise
Season 2. Episode 14.
Episode entitled: Stigma.
Released February 5, 2003.
Directed by David Livingston.
Written by Rick Berman, Brannon Braga, André Bormanis.
Created by Rick Berman, Brannon Braga.
Based on Star Trek, created by Gene Roddenberry.
Opening theme song: Faith of the Heart, performed by Russell Watson.
Closing theme: Archer's Theme, by Dennis McCarthy.
Music by Dennis McCarthy.
Cast: Scott Bakula, John Billingsley, Jolene Blalock, Dominic Keating, Anthony Montgomery, Linda Park, Connor Trinneer, Melinda Page Hamilton, Michael Ensign, Bob Morrisey, Jeffrey/Jeff Hayenga, Lee Spencer, Alexandrea Ortiz, Antony Acker, Solomon Burke Jr., Mark Correy, Ken Gruz, Roy Joaquin, Mark Major, Louis Ortiz, Lidia Sabljic.

On this day in movie history - The Outlaw (1943):


The Outlaw

directed by Howard Hughes and Howard Hawks,
written by Jules Furthman, Howard Hawks and Ben Hecht,
was released in the United States on February 5, 1943.
Music by Victor Young.


Cast:

Jack Buetel, Jane Russell, Thomas Mitchell, Walter Huston, Mimi Aguglia, Joe Sawyer, Gene Rizzi, Bobby Callahan, Martin Garralaga, Ben Johnson, Dickie Jones, Cecil Kellogg, Ethan Laidlaw, Ted Mapes, William Newell, Emory Parnell, Edward Peil Sr., Wallace Reid Jr., Julian Rivero, Lee Shumway, William Steele, Harry Strang, Frank Ward, Pat West.

Born on this day – Tom Wilkinson:


Tom Wilkinson


Actor

February 5, 1948 – December 30, 2023


Credits:

The Full Monty (2023); SAS: Red Notice (2021); Dr. Bird's Advice for Sad Poets (2021); Belgravia (2020); Watership Down (2018); Dead in a Week Or Your Money Back (2018); The Titan (2018); Burden (2018); The Happy Prince (2018); The Catcher Was a Spy (2018); This Beautiful Fantastic (2016); Denial (2016); Snowden (2016); The Choice (2016); Jenny's Wedding (2015); Little Boy (2015); Unfinished Business (2015); Selma (2014); Good People (2014); The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014); Felony (2013); Belle (2013); The Lone Ranger (2013); Sleeping Dogs (2012); The Samaritan (2012); The Gruffalo's Child (2011); Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol (2011); The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2011); The Kennedys (2011); The Green Hornet (2011); Burke and Hare (2010); The Conspirator (2010); The Debt (2010); Jackboots on Whitehall (2010); The Ghost Writer (2010); The Gruffalo (2009); 44 Inch Chest (2009); Duplicity (2009); Valkyrie (2008); A Number (2008); RocknRolla (2008); Recount (2008); John Adams (2008); Michael Clayton (2007); Cassandra's Dream (2007); Dedication (2007); The Last Kiss (2006); The Night of the White Pants (2006); Ripley Under Ground (2005); Separate Lies (2005); The Exorcism of Emily Rose (2005); Batman Begins (2005); Piccadilly Jim (2004); A Good Woman (2004); Stage Beauty (2004); Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004); If Only (2004); Girl with a Pearl Earring (2003); Normal (2003); An Angel for May (2002); Before You Go (2002); The Importance of Being Earnest (2002); The Gathering Storm (2002); Black Knight (2001); Another Life (2001); In the Bedroom (2001); Chain of Fools (2000); Essex Boys (2000); The Patriot (2000); David Copperfield (1999); Ride with the Devil (1999); Molokai (1999); Shakespeare in Love (1998); Jilting Joe (1998); Rush Hour (1998); The Governess (1998); Cold Enough for Snow (1997); Oscar and Lucinda (1997); Wilde (1997); The Full Monty (1997); Smilla's Sense of Snow (1997); Screen Two (1990–1996); The Ghost and the Darkness (1996); Interview Day (1996); A Very Open Prison (1995); Sense and Sensibility (1995); Martin Chuzzlewit (1994); Performance (1994); Shakespeare: The Animated Tales (1994); Priest (1994); Alleyn Mysteries (1994); Royal Deceit (1994); A Business Affair (1994); In the Name of the Father (1993); Resnick: Rough Treatment (1993); Stay Lucky (1993); An Exchange of Fire (1993); Resnick: Lonely Hearts (1992); Underbelly (1992); Prime Suspect (1991); Lovejoy (1991); Parnell & the Englishwoman (1991); Paper Mask (1990); Counterstrike (1990); TECX (1990); Inspector Morse (1990); First and Last (1989); Ruth Rendell Mysteries (1988); The Attic: The Hiding of Anne Frank (1988); The Woman He Loved (1988); The Lost Secret (1986); First Among Equals (1986); Happy Families (1985); Travelling Man (1985); Sylvia (1985); Miss Marple: A Pocketful of Rye (1985); Wetherby (1985); Bones (1984); Sakharov (1984); Squaring the Circle (1984); Sharma and Beyond (1984); Strangers and Brothers (1984); Spyship (1983); All for Love (1983); Panorama (1982); Crime and Punishment (1979); The Shadow Line (1976); 2nd House (1975).

Born on this day – Joe Minjares:


Joe Minjares


Actor

Writer

February 5, 1946 – July 21, 2025

Credits:

A Chance of Snow (1998); Bound and Gagged: A Love Story (1993); Domestics (2016); ER (1995); Fem 101 (2019); I Now Pronounce You Retro & Ellie (2025); In an Instant (2015); Justice (2004); Last Seen (2002); McHale's Navy (1997); Next Door (1994); Nothing But the Truth (1995); Nothing to Lose (1997); NYPD Blue (1996); Patti Rocks (1988); Roseanne (1993); Signs and Wonders (1995); Sleep, Baby, Sleep (1995); Strange Luck (1995); Studio Luma (2015); The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes (1995); The Horrible Flowers (2006); The Jackie Thomas Show (1992); The Last of the Finest (1990); The Tom Show (1997–1998); The Truman Show (1998); Thin Ice (2011); Tom (1994); Untamed Heart (1993); Virus (1995); Voices Within: The Lives of Truddi Chase (1990); Wilson (2017).

Born on this day – H. R. Giger:


H. R. Giger


Artist

Director

Actor

February 5, 1940 – May 12, 2014

Credits:


H.R. Giger's Film Design

By H.R. Giger.

Introduction by Ridley Scott.

Published by Morpheus International.
Published 1996.
Hardcover.
ISBN-10: 1883398061
ISBN-13: 978-1883398064

Description:

An artist of uncompromising vision who gives free range to his brilliant, often bizarre imagination, H.R. Giger has created some of the most successful marriages of design and film in history. In this collection, Giger takes readers on a tour of his fantastic designs, from genesis through gestation to birth, for such films as AlienAlien 3, and Species. 200 photos & illustrations.

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Books:

Alien (1979); Alien: diaries 7/8 (2013); ARH Plus (1991); ARh+ [i.e. Positive] (1993); Baphomet Tarot Set (1999); Baphomet: the Tarot of the Underworld (1992); Biomechanics (1990); Film Design (1996); Giger (B&N) (2008); Giger's Alien (1979); H. R. Giger's Retrospective, 1964-1984 (1984); H.R. Giger Guillotine (2006); H.R. Giger: 30 Postcards (1993); H.R. Giger's Necronomicon 2 (1985); HR Giger ARh+ (1991); HR Giger: The Oeuvre Before Alien, 1961-1976 (2007); Morpheus 2009 (2008); Necronomicon (1977); Necronomicon Ex Mortis (2014); Species Design (1995); The Mystery of San Gottardo (1998); Www H. R. Giger Com (1998); www HR Giger com (1996).

Movies and television:

A New Face of Debbie Harry (1982); Alien (1979); Alien Evolution (2001); Alien vs. Predator (2004); Alien: Alone (2019); Alien: Containment (2019); Alien: Covenant (2017); Alien: Harvest (2019); Alien: Night Shift (2019); Alien: Ore (2019); Alien: Resurrection (1997); Alien: Specimen (2019); Alien³ (1992); Aliens (1986); Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem (2007); Aphex Twin: Windowlicker (1999); C-Files: Tell Saga (2000); Dark Seed (1992); Debbie Harry: Atomic Blondie (2018); Debbie Harry: Backfired (1981); Debbie Harry: Now I Know You Know (1981); Future-Kill (1985); Giger's Alien (1979); Giger's Necronomicon (1975); High and Heimkiller (1967); Killer Condom (1996); Memory: The Origins of Alien (2019); Minty Comedic Arts (2022); Poltergeist II: The Other Side (1986); Prometheus (2012); Species (1995); Species II (1998); Swiss Made (1968); Tagtraum (1973); The Alien Legacy (1999); Tokyo: The Last War (1989).