If you thought "The Shining" was simply Stanley Kubrick's film version of Stephen King's novel, you are apparently wrong, at least according to the never-seen interviewees of the new documentary "Room ...
Matt Goldberg has been an editor with Collider since 2007. As the site's Chief Film Critic, he has authored hundreds of reviews and covered major film festivals including the Toronto International ...
Matt Goldberg has been an editor with Collider since 2007. As the site's Chief Film Critic, he has authored hundreds of reviews and covered major film festivals including the Toronto International ...
These guys were reaching. I’ve never had much patience for academic bullshit. It’s like Dylan says, “You give people a lot of knives and forks, they’ve gotta cut something.” And that was what was ...
In his review of the 1984 film 2010, a largely forgotten sequel to Stanley Kubrick’s landmark 1968 masterpiece 2001: A Space Odyssey, Roger Ebert referenced a quote from the poet E.E. Cummings: “I’d ...
Photo by Rodney Ascher. Courtesy IFC Midnight. Famed film director Stanley Kubrick used The Shining as a way of issuing a public apology for his role in staging the moon landing. He filled the film ...
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... In an era when Audience is King — when movies can get made on the strength of a Kickstarter campaign and an amateur effort like “Fifty Shades of Grey” ...
You can’t beat a good conspiracy theory. They’re the gradually forming myths of the modern age, an attempt to find an oblique sort of logic in the shocking and the extraordinary. Take the lunar ...
Xpress' 6th grade reviewer offers her thoughts on Pixar's latest gem. Ascher makes no judgment on the validity of any of this, instead leaving it up to the audience to decide what to make of it all.
Room 237 is a look into "the tide of terror that swept America" that is Stanley Kubrick's 'The Shining'. The Shining is one of my favorite movies. It's a movie that I ...
One of the great movies about movies, "Room 237" takes permanent residence in the icy labyrinth that is Stanley Kubrick's "The Shining." Among other things, Ascher’s playfully inquisitive docu ...