James Hancock from Wrong Reel reflects on Nicholson’s fatherly performance, Kubrick’s meticulousness, and that goddamn pink tennis ball.   Download the file here: Shining Episode 22     Wrong Reel’s amazing episode on Full Metal Jacket can be found here. My Kevin Geeks Out talk on The Shining miniseries can be found here.   If you enjoy […]

Jon Solomon from WPRB connects the Butthole Surfers with Jack Torrance, ponders the punk-rockness of this movie, and throws in a Spinal Tap reference for good measure.   Download the file here: Shining Episode 21     From Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey, all monitors in this clip were screens with moving images projected onto […]

Joe Dator from The New Yorker discusses one of the most iconic scenes in movie history, along with an exploration of scary Brits and inappropriate television.   Download the file here: Shining Episode 20     Scene from The Innocents (1961) with Deborah Kerr, directed by Jack Clayton.   The New Yorker cartoonist Paul Noth’s […]

Listener and Patreon subscriber Brian Dupre, along with Megan Dooley, discusses Wendy in yellow, a mysterious red book, and a couple of gals in blue.   Download the file here: Shining Episode 19     A book on Stuart Ullman’s desk at the beginning of The Shining, clearly titled Red Book. Is it possible this […]

Stewart Thorndike, who played Nuala in Eyes Wide Shut and is a horror movie writer and director (Lyle), discusses Wendy’s problematic situation, what’s missing in horror films, and what it was like to act for Kubrick.   Download the file here: Shining Episode 18     Part one of Rob Ager’s essay about the possible […]

Alien Minute’s John Ingle is joined by The New Yorker cartoonist Joe Dator as we discuss subliminal advertising, a confusing dress, and the disappearing chair.   Download the file here: Shining Episode 17     The classic book from 1974   Sex written in the ice cubes? Maaaaaaybe.   If you enjoy the podcast, please […]

An excerpt from a Patreon-only discussion of Kubrick’s sci-fi masterpiece 2001: A Space Odyssey.  This was an extremely fun roundtable, where we covered behind-the-scenes facts, the meaning of the movie, and debated its place in movie history.   Bruce Handy from Vanity Fair, who has an article in the current issue titled “2001: A Film […]

Musicologist Jonathan Stern discusses the stunning soundtrack to The Shining, how the overhead maze scene was shot, plus Kubrick’s connection to Gilligan’s Island.   Download the file here: Shining Episode 16     The Vampira Show   If you enjoy the podcast, please support my work by donating!

WFMU Midnight Matinee’s John Schnall sat through The Shining fourteen times when it first came out and lived to talk about it 37 years later for this week’s podcast.   Download the file here: Shining Episode 15   Folk song from Werner Herzog’s Even Dwarfs Started Small (1970)   Commercial from the Keep America Beautiful […]

Elstree Studios film historian Howie Berry dollops out some amazing inside scoops about the elevator of blood, continuity errors, and some scenes we’ll never see. Download the file here: Shining Episode 14 A map of where everything was filmed at Elstree Studios. Watching the Vision Assist, which captured each day’s takes with Kubrick having to print […]