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Video of the Day: IKEA Commercial Pays Homage To Stanley Kubrick’s ‘The Shining’
Shopping during the Holiday season can be terrifying, but imagine being trapped overnight inside the Swedish furniture giant. Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining has become so iconic, we’ve seen it ripped off more times than we can remember. Now Singapore takes the idea one step further by incorporating the famous ‘Big Wheel’ scene from the classic […] More
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Vintage Trading Cards based on ‘The Shining’
Below is a collection of faux-trading cards based on The Shining and created by Portland-based blogger Rian Callahan who says he created the cards simply because they didn’t exist and he thought that they should. Via Dangerous Minds More
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Video of the Day: ’87 Bounces’, One Basketball, 24 Different Movies
87 Bounces by HOTU Studio, follows a basketball as it makes its way into the scenes of 24 different movies such as Goodfelllas, The Shining, Aviator, Trainspotting, The Big Lebowski, Flubber, Spider-man 2, The Mask and The Wolf of Wall Street, just to name a few. The effects are great as we watch the ball […] More
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Video of the Day: Kubrick’s Poetry
Marc Müller put together this amazing tribute to the late, great Stanley Kubrick. The Montage features clips from The Killing, Paths of Glory, Lolita, Dr. Strangelove, 2001: A Space Odyssey, A Clockwork Orange, Barry Lyndon, The Shining, Full Metal Jacket and Eyes Wide Shut. I’m not sure why he left out the other Kubrick films, […] More
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Possible Future Adaptations of Films for TV Shows we’d like to see
The recent trend in television of adapting films to series has teetered from carefully and creatively executed, such as FX’s Fargo, to lacklustre with poor ratings to show for it, such as the NBC miniseries Rosemary’s Baby. Although this movement has its inherent challenges to overcome, such as the view that creating a series from a […] More
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Ranking the Films of Stanley Kubrick
There are few auteurs as instantly recognizable and divisive as Stanley Kubrick, few filmmakers as idiosyncratic or groundbreaking. His work spans the entirety of life itself–sometimes in the same film–and has inspired almost as much derision as hosannas. There is no easy consensus on Kubrick’s films–though you may not be terribly surprised by our writers’ […] More
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Stanley Kubrick and The Major Malfunction
“Has it ever occurred to you what would happen to my future, if I were to fail to live up to my responsibilities?” – Jack Torrance, before telling his wife that he’s going to bash her brains in. Jack Torrance has responsibilities that were given given to him in good faith by the manager […] More
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Protecting Their Precious Bodily Fluids: Male Impotence in Kubrick’s Filmography
It’s both perfectly fitting and a darkly wry punchline that the last word in Stanley Kubrick’s last film is “fuck,” utilized in its most literal definition. The word is spoken, in both direct and slightly imploring fashion, by Alice Harford (Nicole Kidman) to her husband Bill (Tom Cruise) at the end of the still slightly […] More
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The Definitive Kubrickian Films: 40-31
As we spend a month looking at the great Stanley Kubrick, we can also look at the filmmakers who were clearly influenced by Kubrick. “Kubrickian” films tend to exercise incredible control of the camera, are extremely ambitious, tend to deal with much weightier themes, and always maintain a sense of mystery, like a there’s an […] More
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Five Most Frightening Screen Adaptations Of Stephen King
Clowns, prom, pets, and family getaways have two things in common: we’re supposed to feel safe about them and, because of Stephen King, we don’t. Considered to be the master of modern horror, King takes our expectations of what it means to be safe and secure, and flips it on its head. So sit back and […] More
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31 Days of Horror: Jump Scares, Twists & A Genre in Decline
There’s a wonderfully maddening moment early on in Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining where Danny Torrance is perusing the corridors of the Overlook hotel on his tricycle. He swings round corners, the camera obsessively following him in a locked in third person perspective angle. The skin crawling score by Wendy Carlos and Rachel Elkind swells up […] More
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