J.J. Abrams, his wife Katie McGrath and their production company Bad Robot has just signed a big deal to develop three more television series for WarnerMedia and its upcoming streaming service HBO Max. Abrams will develop a Justice League Dark series as well as a spin-off from Stephen King’s The Shining titled Overlook and an original series called […]
When Cabin Fever Strikes: The Lighthouse and The Shining Double Bill
Tom Jolliffe delves into the delights of cabin fever and double bills The Lighthouse and The Shining…I do love a double bill. Sometimes it’s pre-planned, like pre-meditated eating of the chocolate in the cupboard. Sometimes it just happens to cross my mind when watching one film, that I can connect it to something else (whether […]
Stephen King and Mike Flanagan discuss Abra Stone in exclusive Doctor Sleep featurette
Ahead of its physical home entertainment release on March 9th, we’ve got an exclusive featurette for Warner Bros.’ Stephen King adaptation Doctor Sleep, which sees King and director Mike Flanagan discussing the character of Abra Stone, played by young actress Kyliegh CurranSEE ALSO: Exclusive Interview – Doctor Sleep composers The Newton Brothers talk Mike Flanagan and […]
The Best Stephen King Movie Adaptations
EJ Moreno on the best Stephen King movies…After 40 years and 100 adaptations, the work of Stephen King still speaks to viewers. In just 2019 alone, we’ve had four feature films based on his work in Pet Sematary, It Chapter Two, In the Tall Grass and Doctor Sleep, along with several television shows.Starting in 1976 […]
Fede Alvarez’s new horror film is described as “The Shining set in the White House”
Fede Alvarez, the director behind Evil Dead 2013, Don’t Breathe, and The Girl in the Spider’s Web, and his writing partner Rodolfo Sayagues have closed an overall deal with Legendary Pictures, Deadline reports.The deal will see Alvarez and Sayagues developing and producing projects through their Bad Hombre Films banner starting with a horror movie that is being described […]
Decoding Film: The Hidden Layers in Cinema
Tom Jolliffe looks at film analysis and fan theories. Do we over-analyse films?Cinema is a fascinating medium. A combination of carefully constructed (under the watchful eye of an auteur) visual imagery, combined with performance and sound. Some films have a clear and overriding message. Die Hard is Die Hard. You might pick apart some seams […]
Exclusive Interview – Doctor Sleep composers The Newton Brothers talk Mike Flanagan and The Shining
Sean Wilson chats to the composers of Doctor Sleep, the Newton Brothers, about working with director Mike Flanagan, and following in the footsteps of The Shining…Classic Stanley Kubrick horror The Shining casts a formidable legacy in more ways than one. The filmmaker’s adaptation of Stephen King’s 1977 novel is famously ambiguous (to the extent that the author […]
Stephen King says Doctor Sleep redeems Kubrick’s The Shining
The fact that Stephen King disliked Stanley Kubrick’s adaptation of The Shining, is film trivia as old as the ghosts who walk the corridors of the Overlook Hotel. Now, with the release of the next chapter in The Shining story, Doctor Sleep, rolling out in cinemas across the globe, the legendary horror writer has claimed […]
Movie Review – Doctor Sleep (2019)
Doctor Sleep, 2019.Written and Directed by Mike Flanagan. Starring Ewan McGregor, Kyliegh Curran, Rebecca Ferguson, Zahn McClarnon, Bruce Greenwood, Carel Struycken, Cliff Curtis, Emily Alyn Lind, Jocelin Donahue, Nicholas Pryor, Carl Lumbly, Chelsea Talmadge, Selena Anduze, Catherine Parker, Roger Dale Floyd, Kk Heim, Kaitlyn McCormick, Molly Jackson, Sadie Heim, Robert Longstreet, Jacob Tremblay, and Alex […]
Movie Review – Doctor Sleep (2019)
Doctor Sleep, 2019.Directed by Mike Flanagan Starring Ewan McGregor, Rebecca Ferguson, Kyliegh Curran, Zahn McClarnon, Cliff Curtis, Emily Alyn Lind, Carel Struycken, Bruce Greenwood, Chelsea Talmadge, Alex Essoe, Catherine Parker, and Selena AnduzeSYNOPSIS:Years after the events of The Shining, a grownup Danny Torrance (Ewan McGregor) has repressed his abilities and hit the bottle, only to […]
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