As a lifelong Stephen King fan, I came into The Long Walk with both excitement and trepidation. I read the book years ago, but I couldn’t recall the exact ending — which turned out to be the perfect state of mind for this pre-screening. I could let the movie pull me along, still gripped by […]
Michael Connelly has outdone himself with The Proving Ground—a taut, urgent, and emotionally resonant thriller that might just be the best Lincoln Lawyer book to date. Mickey Haller has long been my favorite Connelly character, and in this installment, he’s at the top of his game—sharper, more reflective, and thrown into the kind of case
Let’s be honest—Cobra Kai shouldn’t work. A decades-late sequel to a beloved ‘80s underdog story? Sounds like nostalgia-bait. And yet, somehow, it punches through the noise and lands hard. Why? Because under all the roundhouse kicks and high school drama, it’s offering one of the most raw, revealing critiques of modern masculinity on screen today.
First off, I am totally geeking out over John Vervaeke and Shawn Coyne’s collaboration, Mentoring the Machines. I’ve been a huge fan of Vervaeke’s Awakening from the Meaning Crisis and After Socrates lecture series and of course, Shawn Coyne’s Story Grid process. When they got together to look at the impact of artificial intelligence, I
In a time when many feel adrift in a sea of information, distraction, and existential confusion, John Vervaeke’s lecture series Awakening from the Meaning Crisis arrives like a lighthouse cutting through the fog. Vervaeke, a cognitive scientist and professor at the University of Toronto, brings a rare and powerful fusion to the table: rigorous philosophy,
Michael Connelly returns with a fresh protagonist in Nightshade, introducing readers to Detective Stilwell, a Los Angeles County Sheriff’s detective exiled to Catalina Island after politics force him off the homicide beat. What begins as a quiet post soon turns lethal, with the discovery of a body sunk to the bottom of the harbor and
