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Cool Mashup – 2001: A Space Odyssey directed by George Lucas

Cool Mashup – 2001: A Space Odyssey directed by George Lucas

Posted by on Jan 29, 2023 in action, All, Film, Mashup, News, sci-fi, thriller | 0 comments

What if George Lucas was the director of 2001: A Space Odyssey? Poakwoods decided to answer that very question. I tried to imagine what...

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Cool Video Essay: The Invisible Horror of The Shining

Cool Video Essay: The Invisible Horror of The Shining

Posted by on Dec 6, 2021 in All, Books, drama, fantasy, Film, horror, News, thriller, Video Essay | 0 comments

Kristian T. Williams Kaptain Kristian takes a look at the eldritch horrors hidden in the halls of The Overlook Hotel. He focuses on the...

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Stanley Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange 4K Ultimate Collectors Edition is heading our way

Stanley Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange 4K Ultimate Collectors Edition is heading our way

Posted by on Sep 1, 2021 in All, Books, drama, DVD/Blu-ray, Film, News, sci-fi, thriller | 0 comments

To mark its 50th Anniversary, Stanley Kubrick’s classic 1971 dystopian film, A Clockwork Orange, will soon be available for the first time...

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Retro Review: The Shining – “The film remains an unsettling and mysterious experience”

Retro Review: The Shining – “The film remains an unsettling and mysterious experience”

Posted by on Aug 19, 2021 in All, Books, drama, fantasy, Film, Headline, horror, Reviews, thriller | 0 comments

Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining (1980) is widely considered a classic of the Horror genre. As with other works from Kubrick’s catalogue such...

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Stanley KuBLOG: Eyes Wide Shut – A Stanley Kubrick Retrospective

Stanley KuBLOG: Eyes Wide Shut – A Stanley Kubrick Retrospective

Posted by on Nov 13, 2020 in All, comedy, drama, Film, Headline, Reviews, romance, thriller | 0 comments

Eyes Wide Shut opened at the Venice Film Festival and was the last film I saw in England before I moved to Italy in 1999. I saw it again...

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Kubrick’s Full Metal Jacket is heading to 4K this September

Kubrick’s Full Metal Jacket is heading to 4K this September

Posted by on Aug 18, 2020 in action, All, Books, comedy, drama, DVD/Blu-ray, Film, News, thriller, war | 0 comments

Director Stanley Kubrick rips the skin from the face of war to expose the dehumanizing effect of the military on the people fed to its...

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Stanley KuBLOG: Full Metal Jacket – A Stanley Kubrick Retrospective

Stanley KuBLOG: Full Metal Jacket – A Stanley Kubrick Retrospective

Posted by on Jul 29, 2020 in action, All, drama, Film, Headline, Reviews, thriller, war | 0 comments

Full Metal Jacket has the dubious honour of being the first 18 certificate film I saw at the cinema. I was fifteen years old and already a...

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Stanley KuBLOG: The Shining – A Stanley Kubrick Retrospective

Stanley KuBLOG: The Shining – A Stanley Kubrick Retrospective

Posted by on Jun 26, 2020 in All, Books, drama, Film, Headline, horror, Reviews, thriller | 0 comments

Approaching The Shining is daunting. Of all Kubrick’s films, it is the most discussed. 2001 and Dr Strangelove, discussion feels...

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The Shining: Escape from the Overlook Hotel board game is heading our way

The Shining: Escape from the Overlook Hotel board game is heading our way

Posted by on May 26, 2020 in All, Books, drama, Film, Games, horror, News, thriller | 0 comments

“Here’s Johnny!” Stanley Kubricks’s adaptation of Stephen King’s The Shining is 40 years old. To celebrate the film’s...

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Stanley KuBLOG: Barry Lyndon – A Stanley Kubrick Retrospective

Stanley KuBLOG: Barry Lyndon – A Stanley Kubrick Retrospective

Posted by on May 1, 2020 in All, comedy, drama, Film, Headline, Reviews | 0 comments

Barry Lyndon is Stanley Kubrick’s tenth feature film. It came after a series of magnificent successes capped by the trauma of A...

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