Joe and Megan converse with me about conversations, we neurologically probe the smell of toast, and we are treated to a ditty by Scatman Crothers.   Download the file here: Shining Episode 13     An interview from 1980 with Mick Garris. Scatman sings at about 3:00.   Scatman and Redd Foxx on Sandford and […]

Marcus Pinn from Pinnland Empire and Zebras in America talks with me about this intense scene, plus the stuff that messed with our brains in childhood.   Download the file here: Shining Episode 12     Trailer for Bob Balaban’s Parents (1989)   Trailer for Elem Klimov’s Come and See (1985)   Marcus refers to this […]

John Cribbs from The Pink Smoke talks about The Shining in the context of horror, and Kubrick in the context of food.   Download the file here: Shining Episode 11     Trailer for Scalps (1983)   Roald Dahl’s Lamb to the Slaughter, originally a short story and also adapted and directed by Alfred Hitchcock for […]

Megan Dooley and Joe Dator boogie with me through the Gold Room, as we consider other amazing sets in film history.   Download the file here: Shining Episode 10     The Vandamm House from Hitchcock’s “North by Northwest”   The Manderley estate from Hitchcock’s “Rebecca”   The town of Sweethaven from Robert Altman’s “Popeye”   […]

Jon Solomon & Joe Dator play darts with me as we ponder the twins and the Torrance’s new “homey” apartment.   Download the file here: Shining Episode 9     Statue of a Native American child riding a turkey at the Paramus Park Mall.   Diane Arbus’s “Identical Twins, Roselle, New Jersey, 1967”   Stanley […]

Kevin Maher and Joe Dator help me examine the road trip to Hell, plus a fun discussion of the bazillion parodies and comedy bits spawned from this beloved horror flick.   Download the file here: Shining Episode 8     Jack drives about as well as Paul does.   If there is a better way […]

Actor Zandy Hartig talks about what it’s like to be directed by the likes of Soderbergh, and the good and bad of being directed by a genius like Kubrick.   Download the file here: Shining Episode 7     Vinessa Shaw with Tom Cruise in Kubrick’s Eyes Wide Shut. (If anyone has the clip of […]

Megan and I discuss ghost wasps and ghost lamps, plus a whole conversations about sexism and how it relates to the Kubrick world.   Download the file here: Shining Episode 6     Dopey decal, present and missing.   Goofy doll in the background, Shelly reflecting the doll. Shoes, too!   Vivian Kubrick on the […]

Documentary producer Elizabeth Yoffe discusses Danny Lloyd and his acting coach Leon Vitali, the subject of Filmworker. Bonus: Joe Dator!   Download the file here: Shining Episode 5     Article announcing Danny Lloyd’s casting in Kubrick’s film.   Danny Lloyd with Kubrick   One of Polanski’s innovations in Rosemary’s Baby was the odd cropping of framed subjects, […]

Tasha Robinson and Bob J. Koester ponder the characters’ motivations and eyebrows in this unusual interview scene.   Download the file here: Shining Episode 4   Jack Nicholson with crazy hair at the beginning of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.   Jack Nicholson as The Joker trying to pass for normal.   Trivia that […]