100 + Greatest Horror Movies (pt.6) 25-1
Throughout the month of October, Editor-in-Chief and resident Horror expert Ricky D, will be posting a list of what he considers the greatest horror films of all time. The list will be posted in six...
View Article‘The Shining’ Rewards Attentive Rewatching
The Shining Written by Diane Johnson and Stanley Kubrick based on the novel The Shining by Stephen King Directed by Stanley Kubrick USA 1980 imdb Quebec’s only documentary film festival, Rencontres...
View ArticleThe Evolution of Stanley Kubrick, Guillermo del Toro and Jim Carrey
We’ve promoted some of Jeff Victor’s fabulous artwork before on our site. Here are some other great pieces showing the evolution of some of his favorite actors and directors. Jeff has set up an online...
View Article‘Room 237′, a documentary that takes a deeper look into ‘The Shining’,...
Filmmaker Stanley Kubrick is one of the most well-regarded directors of all time, having been the driving force behind numerous classics spread out over multiple genres. One of those is the 1980...
View ArticleLooking at Dinosaurs: ‘Jurassic Park’ and Its Powerful Hold on a Generation
I am not gifted with a photographic memory, barely able to recreate some point-specific day-in-the-life anecdote with impressive deftness. That, or I just don’t know how to create a believable lie...
View Article‘Room 237′ a fascinating exercise in the obsessive nature of the modern man
Room 237 Directed by Rodney Ascher USA, 2012 A blessing and curse of being human is that we grasp for meaning in all things. If something is not spelled out for us directly, we have to get to the...
View Article5 Surprising Personal Passion Projects of Legendary Directors
There’s something inherently lonely and tortured about being a director. Yes, you’re the tyrant of the set and dictator of the vision, but you’re also the man (or woman) behind the curtain, the puppet...
View Article2001: A Space Odyssey a dark visual essay on the failings of mankind
When it comes to film interpretation and finding madness in the method, it’s only a matter of time before an overly philosophical troll decides to take an almighty stab at the man whose portfolio is...
View Article‘Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles’ enthralling, insightful...
Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles Directed by Jon Foy Written by Jon Foy & Colin Smith 2011 It’s quite reassuring that despite living in such a fast paced, busy and prioritized world...
View ArticleCinema’s Greatest Villains: The 1970′s
Recent hot cinema topics such as the portrayal of the Mandarin character in Shane Black’s Iron Man 3 and speculations about what classic Star Trek villain Benedict Cumberbatch’s character in J.J...
View ArticleStar Trek, Star Wars & Avatar; Putting Sci-Fi Into Darkness
In almost everything, there is subtext, intentional or not. In the ‘not’ category is the significant black cloud coming with the silver lining of three massive developments in movieland this year....
View ArticleTIFF 2013: ‘The Last of Robin Hood’ is a heartbreaking Hollywood tale of...
The Last of Robin Hood Written by Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland Directed by Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland USA, 2013 The Last of Robin Hood depicts the last romance of Errol Flynn’s...
View ArticleBeautiful Poster for ‘The Shining’ by DirtyGreatPixels
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View Article31 Days of Horror: Jump Scares, Twists & A Genre in Decline
There’s a wonderfully maddening moment early on in Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining where Danny Torrance is perusing the corridors of the Overlook hotel on his tricycle. He swings round corners, the...
View Article31 Days of Horror: 100 Greatest Horror Films:Top 10
Every year, we here at Sound On Sight celebrate the month of October with 31 Days of Horror; and every year, I update the list of my favourite horror films ever made. Last year, I released a list that...
View Article‘Full Metal Jacket’ Poster by Livia Lucie
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View ArticleStrange Interpretation: Why ‘The Shining’ is Subliminal Genius, Not Cryptic...
There is no other filmmaker who has attracted as much wild speculation and feverish discussion as the late, great Stanley Kubrick. Iconic, unique, celebrated, and the subject of wholesale apocryphal...
View ArticleFull Metal Jacket and Dr. Strangelove: Kubrick’s War
“It’s crazy how you can get yourself in a mess sometimes and not even be able to think about it with any sense and yet not be able to think about anything else” – Stanley Kubrick Stanley Kubrick’s...
View ArticleStanley Kubrick’s ‘Napoleon’– What Might Have Been
“It’s impossible to tell you what I’m going to do except to say that I expect to make the best movie ever made.” – Stanley Kubrick, Oct. 20, 1971. There are few unrealized projects in the history...
View ArticleThe Definitive Kubrickian Films: 40-31
As we spend a month looking at the great Stanley Kubrick, we can also look at the filmmakers who were clearly influenced by Kubrick. “Kubrickian” films tend to exercise incredible control of the...
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