Where are the Brightness and Levels controls?

It's so simple, but it's late at night (early hours of the morning actually) and I'm stuck!
The most basic of controls . . . . Brightness, Contrast, Levels etc. I just cannot find.
Where are they?
Anyway, I'm off to bed.

Looking back to the old FCP, the Brightness filter was pretty appalling as it really upset the contrast etc. and it required complex fiddling with the other controls to get a semblance of balance back.
Then a year or so ago someone made a new free Brightness plugin that not only adjusted the brightness but automatically compensated the contrast controls so everything looked great.
I can't remember the name of the creator or the plugin.
It might be Luca and this, but I can't be sure.
http://www.videonline.co.uk/Lucas_Image_Adjust.htm
It's a pity that FCP X hasn't got a similar effect.
The following adjustment gave the images a nice lift and kept everything pleasant to view.
Highs +10%, Mids +5% and Shadows +3%
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