The Shining (movie)

Filmmaker Stanley Kubrick redux at LACMA

2013-05-13 16:20:00

With the Los Angeles County Museum of Art's expansive "Stanley Kubrick" exhibition set to close on June 30, the museum's film department is revisiting several key movies in the maverick filmmaker's oeuvre. Each of the director's films in the series...

Shining a light on metaphorical readings of 'The Shining'

2013-04-03 19:35:00

Since its release in 1980, Stanley Kubrick's film adaptation of Stephen King's "The Shining" has firmly embedded itself into the pop consciousness with its shudder-inducing cry of "Here's Johnny!" and its blood-soaked hallways. "Room 237," which opens...

New releases: 'On the Road' seeks a style both poetic, realistic

2013-03-24 07:00:00

On the Road Available on VOD beginning Monday Director Walter Salles, screenwriter Jos� Rivera and producer Francis Ford Coppola have given themselves the almost-impossible task of adapting Jack Kerouac's beloved Beat Generation novel "On the Road," a...

Review: Daniel Lutz recounts 'My Amityville Horror'

2013-03-14 16:50:00

Whatever happened 37 years ago at the Lutz home in Amityville, Long Island, the extreme spook factor has spawned a cottage industry in books, movies and the online musings of amateur obsessives, both naysayers and believers. Eric Walter's absorbing...

Review: 'Room 237' is open to obsession with Kubrick's 'Shining'

2012-12-06 17:13:00

We love movies, those of us who do, because of how deeply they burrow into our psyches, of how they seem to be speaking to us and us alone in a very particular way. But, as the intriguing documentary "Room 237" illustrates, when it comes to some films,...

PASSINGS: Martin Richards, Bryce Bayer

2012-11-29 17:47:00

Martin Richards Stage producer and philanthropist Martin Richards, 80, a prominent stage producer who won an Oscar for producing the 2002 film "Chicago" decades after bringing it to Broadway, died Monday after a battle with cancer, said his publicist,...

Buyer takes a shining to Jack Nicholson home

2011-10-09 00:00:00

A-list actor Jack Nicholson has sold his longtime retreat in Malibu for $3.5 million, the Multiple Listing Service shows. The 28-acre property came on the market in February at $4.25 million. Zoned for equestrian use, the spread includes a ranch-style...

Universal Studios Hollywood already planning Horror Nights 2012

2011-12-08 05:45:00

While most of us have Christmas on our minds, Universal Studios Hollywood is already planning for next Halloween. > Halloween Horror Nights 2011: Review | Photos | Celebrities� Universal has been conducting an online survey to gauge fan interest in 50...

Stephen Chbosky plans tribute to Stephen King

2013-05-12 09:44:02

Stephen Chbosky is going back in time, again. His classic young adult novel, "The Perks of Being a Wallflower," was the story of friends growing up in Pittsburgh's South Hills suburbs in the 1990s. Mr. Chbosky later adapted his novel for the...

Mother takes synagogue to view son's film

2013-05-07 13:10:54

Hollywood resident Brenda Ascher is a proud Jewish mother. Her son Rodney Ascher is the director of the documentary, "Room 237," where people provide numerous theories about the hidden meanings within Stanley Kubrick's film "The Shining." Ascher and...

The Commercial Appeal, Memphis, Tenn., John Beifuss column

2013-04-30 01:24:03

The 16th annual Indie Memphis Film Festival begins this year on Halloween. Appropriately, then, the organization is getting a jump on the holiday with a horror-themed double feature Tuesday night that brings two much-anticipated movies to the Malco...

O Cinema's B-movie series is all about the schlock

2013-04-08 07:18:00

In a lineup that includes movies about overgrown, murderous alligators on growth hormones and surrealistic re-creations of witchcraft and mental illness, can Stanley Kubrick's "The Shining" be too mainstream? If you ask Kevin Bosch, the answer is yes....

No Rating; 1:42 running time We are nothing without our obsessions, and Rodney Ascher's "This American Life"-ish documentary "Room 237" intertwines the obsessive, often risible theories of five very big fans of Stanley Kubrick's "The Shining." Take it one of two ways.

2013-04-04 08:33:00

Rodney Ascher's "Room 237" presents five fans, who, speaking in voiceover, explain their readings of the film, accompanied by a montage of clips primarily from "The Shining," but also from all of Kubrick's other films and a number of non-Kubrick titles.

2013-02-11 00:00:00

Documentary filmmaker Rodney Ascher examines startling obsessions of his "Room 237." The film is a vivid, layered exploration of the symbolism and conspiracies that certain fanatics insist can be found within Stanley Kubrick's 1980 horror film, "The Shining."

2013-02-11 00:00:00