"Moon" starring Sam Rockwell

I'll start by saying this: Moon is a science fiction film. It's not an action-adventure movie, a horror flick, or an edge-of-your-seat thriller dressed up in science fiction trappings, as almost everything that gets called science fiction in Hollywood these days is. Don't get me wrong, some of those SF and whatever films are outstanding, but that's not the point. Structurally and aesthetically, they still tend to be the other genre first. This one isn't. It's a science fiction film, beginning, middle, and end.

The Best Optical Illusions

These are seriously cool. Take a look at win, place, and show, as selected by a group of neuroscientists and psychologists. The curve ball one still freaks me out. It's amazing--and frightening--to realize just how imperfect our senses are. So much of what we see is actually provided by our own brains "filling in the gaps". Unfortunately, sometimes our brains just flat get it wrong.