Déjà Vu is a Classic Rock album by Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young featuring such iconic songs as: Woodstock, Our House, Carry On and Teach Your Children. It’s also a weird phenomenon that has rattled most all of us.

Déjà vu, is French for “already seen.” It’s that dizzying, momentary flash of, “I’ve been here before” when we “know” we’ve never been there in our life. Spooky, surreal, maybe a little unsettling, déjà vu has been the topic of dozens of horror/thriller books, most conceiving a parallel world where our clones roam and only now and then accidentally dip their toes into our world. There certainly couldn’t be a scientific explanation, right?

Have you ever had a strange feeling about a place you couldn’t immediately identify? Perhaps you felt it at that eerie abandoned plaza of a once-bustling town, or maybe you had a general sense of foreboding when you hit a particular stretch of land while walking through the sprawling acreage of a wilderness.

You can’t put your finger on it; there’s just something different about that spot. Perhaps it’s all a neurological phenomenon. Experiences such as déjà vu, for example, may simply be little more than brain quirks.

Some of the best movies of the past three decades came from the successful writing partnership of Joel and Ethan Coen, responsible for “No Country for Old Men,” “The Big Lebowski,” and “Fargo,” among an impressively long list.

When discussing their writing process in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, they mentioned an interesting factoid from the days of silent movies. Some screenwriters set up brainstorming conferences that included a participant called a “wildie,” someone from the local asylum who’d sit at the story table and offer insane non sequiturs, which might actually make it into the plot of a story.

Future social historians will look back at the 20th and early 21st Centuries and identify three socially transforming events in America: Pearl Harbor, the Kennedy Assassination, and 9/11. The day after Pearl Harbor, Americans realized they were no longer protected by two oceans and the Nation’s collective sense of security was transformed. The day after 9/11, Americans realized they were destined to be involved for the foreseeable future in a new kind of war, not based on territory, but on ideology and hatred for our freedoms, a war without boundaries fought by religious fanatics who had no reservation killing innocents and themselves. Every facet of our everyday lives was changed.

Deep-sea creatures like the Anglerfish; string theory, which revealed through mathematics the possibility of multiple dimensions; the unlikely reality television careers of Gary Busey and Bruce Jenner – all these things might qualify for that wonderful Mark Twain quote:

“Truth is stranger than fiction because fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; truth isn’t.”

Enter Toronto Mayor Rob Ford, easily the biggest train wreck of a politician today – a man who makes the shamed Anthony Weiner, the former New York Congressman repeatedly caught sexting his genitals to young women, seem like a choir boy.

Stanley Kubrick continues to be a lightning rod of film-industry controversy nearly a decade and a half after his death. This time around it’s coming from one of the most cutting-edge filmmakers in the sci-fi/thriller/horror/weirdness game, David Cronenberg.

Here’s what the Canadian director recently told The Toronto Star when asked about how his film adaptation of Stephen King’s “Dead Ringers” compared with Kubrick’s adaptation of King’s “The Shining”: