In his latest video, Evan Puschak leans into the vast gulf between the two films to “explore the differences in cinematic cultures and styles”. He takes a close look at the same scene in both films ...

To compare the two films is really beside the point, since “Wings of Desire” exists on its own level as a visionary and original film, and “City of Angels” exists squarely in the pop mainstream. When ...

In a review of City of Angels, the 1998 Hollywood remake of Wings of Desire by Wim Wenders, Roger Ebert says: To compare the tw ...

From Alan Taylor at The Atlantic, whose curatorial eye I’ve always admired, “a grab bag of curious and interesting ...

Ross Anderson writes about how scientific empires, from the ancient Sumerians to the Nazis to the Soviet Union in the 1950s, have ...

Meet Jackson Goldstone. He’s 6 years old, lives in British Columbia, and is already ripping it up on his bike. Here’s ...

An article about The Quintessential Urban Design of ‘Sesame Street’ with a bunch of photos? This is extremely up my ...

I bought a 15” Apple Macbook Air M4 a few months ago and I love it. Of course, I loved my previous computer (an M1 Macbook ...

A perfect game in Tetris is defined as achieving the max score (999,999) in the least amount of time possible, meaning you need ...

Over the weekend, I added a new feature to the site that, for now, is only accessible from the front page of the site, right ...

From MinuteEarth, a quick tour of all the different kinds of dogs in the world, wild & domesticated, and how they are related ...

I stumbled across this July 2019 article by Arthur C. Brooks about professional decline and it gave me lots to think about: ...