







"You should never stare at a genius. Ever."
Dylan O'Sullivan on Twitter / X
Simone Weil’s greatest insight was that attention is the foundation of morality and that letting your attention span degrade is the first step on the road to hell— Dylan O'Sullivan (@DylanoA4) September 16, 2026
Army of Shadows (1969)
Betrayed by an informant, Philippe Gerbier finds himself trapped in a torturous Nazi prison camp. Though Gerbier escapes to rejoin the Resistance in occupied Marseilles, France, and exacts his…

Do You Hear "Yanny" or "Laurel"? (SOLVED with SCIENCE)
Twilight of the Spielberg Image
Steven Spielberg's career wrestles with the power and meaning of image-making, and his sci-fi "Disclosure Day" makes this its very subject.


Stephen Spielberg’s Reckless, Audacious “Disclosure Day”
“Disclosure Day,” a tale of aliens on Earth and the coverup of their presence, starring Emily Blunt and Josh O’Connor, is a catalogue of Steven Spielberg’s obsessions, and a deeply personal vision.

Blindspotting
Blindspotting is a 2018 American comedy-drama film written and produced by Daveed Diggs and Rafael Casal. The film is directed by Carlos López Estrada, and Diggs and Casal star alongside Janina Gavankar, Jasmine Cephas Jones, Ethan Embry, Tisha Campbell-Martin, Utkarsh Ambudkar, and Wayne Knight. The plot follows a parolee with three days left on his sentence, only to have him witness a police shooting that threatens to ruin a lifelong friendship.

Weegee's Secrets Of Shooting With Photoflash
Weegee served an apprenticeship in the darkroom of Acme Newspictures, then went on to free lance with the street of New York as his studio.... In time the name Weegee became legendary, descriptive of a different kind of photograph...one that captured the exciting drama of life. Pathos, humour, tragedy --all these were senitively etched on film by one who love and understood people. After watching him work on several assignments, I suggested he write the story of how he takes his pictures and that's how this booklet was born. We both hope "Weegee's Secrets" will provide the formula for better pictures. (Mel Harris)

Sloppelgängers
Superhuman’s CEO sat for an interview about the AI feature that used writers’ names without permission. What he revealed was worse than the feature itself.

Steven Spielberg’s ‘Disclosure Day’ Turns Autofiction Into Thrilling Sci-Fi
The Hollywood maestro’s latest is filled with excitement and sentimentality.

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Mark Pheonix - Frontin' On {Prod. Harald} [Music Video]
Mystified magicians of the mind
My conversation with neuroscientist Paul Cisek

The Divided Brain (2019) | How the Left Brain Hijacked the Modern World
The Spy Who Loved Me
In the eighties, an animal-rights activist fell in love with Bob Robinson and had his child. Years later, she learned that Bob Robinson was Bob Lambert, and Bob Lambert was a spy.
