Ridley Scott is 88 and has made a quiet, grief-soaked post-apocalyptic film about a pilot, a dog and a small yellow plane. Jacob Elordi is excellent, the critics are split, and the film is more personal than most of them noticed.

I paid three dollars to read an old article about the Congo for a script I am writing. Two years later Academia.edu had taken $566 in silently escalating renewals. Here is the paper trail, the buried price-rise email, and exactly what got some of the money back.