Gena Radcliffe from the Kill By Kill podcast and The Spool discusses the penultimate scene of the movie, and we ponder what it was that made the 2014 miniseries remake such a failure. Download the file here: Episode 18: REMAKING ROSEMARY   The non-working remote control I had as a kid.   Spooky eyeball-less […]

Episode 18: REMAKING ROSEMARY

Writer/director PJ Hogan of “Muriel’s Wedding” and “My Best Friend’s Wedding” discusses the Rosemary DNA that is forever a part of Muriel, and his time working with RB production designer Richard Sylbert.   Download the file here: Episode 17: ROSEMARY &amp; MURIEL   The tip-toe scene   Striking similarities…   Trailer for “Muriel’s […]

Episode 17:  ROSEMARY & MURIEL

Star Wars Minute’s Pete the Retailer comes by to discuss the stone-faced Dr. Hill, and it’s story-time as we recount the shocking literary sequel, “Son of Rosemary.”   Download the file here: Episode 16: UNSPEAKABLE STORIES   Rosemary, after she wakes up.   Charles Grodin on Johnny Carson If you enjoy the podcast, please […]

Episode 16:  UNSPEAKABLE STORIES

The witch episode! We have Joe Dator on the line for the famous telephone booth scene, then Lady Althea, Lady G, and Denny Sargent discuss the explosion of witchery in NYC in the 1970s.   Download the file here: Episode 15: THE WITCHES OF NYC   Trailer for The Astounding She Monster (1957) starring […]

Episode 15:  THE WITCHES OF NYC

WFMU’s “Morricone Island” host Devon E. Levins and DJ Gaylord Fields visit to discuss the soundtrack by Komeda, the details of his untimely death, and Tony Curtis’s phone call. Download the file here: Episode 14: KOMEDA’S LULLABY   The wonderful documentary on Komeda.   The Waxwork LP “Jersey Driver,” an article about my first […]

Episode 14: KOMEDA’S LULLABY

John Ingle and film professor (UMKC) Mitch Brian, hosts of the 007 x 7 podcast, discuss Rosemary’s sins, complicated camerawork, and the films of John Cassavetes. Download the file here: Episode 13: DIFFICULT HUSBANDS   Arthur O’Dwyer’s transcriptions of “All of Them Witches.”   The sequence of Rosemary walking and reading the book, as described […]

Episode 13:  DIFFICULT HUSBANDS

New Yorker cartoonist Joe Dator returns after our long pause to discuss gurus in speedos, a Mia mini-series, and the latest on this particular group of bonkers celebrities. Download the file here: Episode 12: IT’S ALIVE!   The guru leader of Buddhafield, AKA Jaime Gomez, Michel, Andreas, The Teacher or Reyji, in the white turtleneck. […]

Episode 12: IT’S ALIVE!

New Yorker cartoonist Joe Dator and cinephile Megan Dooley discuss a weird episode of Roseanne, a creepy window at Tiffany’s, and spot hidden animals in the film.   Download the file here: Episode 11: LIVES OF THE PARTIES   Rosemary’s walk from the Time &amp; Life building to Tiffany’s, as filmed by Joe Dator.   […]

Episode 11: LIVES OF THE PARTIES

Nick Levin, son of Ira Levin, discusses the conception and writing of the novel “Rosemary’s Baby,” including a surprising possible inspiration for Minnie, and some alien origins.   Download the file here: Episode 10: BIRTH OF A BOOK   Rosemary’s Baby Album   The cover of the first edition of “Rosemary’s Baby.”   The lamp […]

Episode 10: BIRTH OF A BOOK

Father David Mowry gives us the deets on Satan, Beelzebub, the Antichrist, and how the world will end, and we ponder the pixie haircut.   Download the file here: Episode 9: CALL BEELZEBUB, NOT YOUR AUNT FANNY Vidal Sassoon gives Mia a trim.   Please donate if you can to support my work! Thank you!

Episode 9: CALL BEELZEBUB, NOT YOUR AUNT FANNY

We analyze every unspeakable 6 minutes and 66 seconds of the 1968 horror masterpiece. (Includes The Shining 2:37) AV CLUB: "The guests are in fact stellar…Kruglnska does a wonderful job of steering this ship..." NEW YORK TIMES: "This podcast offers the deepest of dives." THE CELLULOID VOID: "...a truly fantastic podcast..."

My personal favorite movie-by-minute podcast. It’s comforting to know that there are people WAY nerdier about this stuff than I and willing to talk about it. Great rotation of guests, as well. Molly and Joe are particularly hilarious.

Finally all caught up!

Best accompanied with a bowl of chocolate ice cream, doc.

Indispensable for any Kubrick fan!

We analyze every unspeakable 6 minutes and 66 seconds of the 1968 horror masterpiece. (Includes The Shining 2:37) <br><br>AV CLUB: "The guests are in fact stellar…Kruglnska does a wonderful job of steering this ship..." NEW YORK TIMES: "This podcast offers the deepest of dives." THE CELLULOID VOID: "...a truly fantastic podcast..."

Rosemary's Baby 6:66 / The Shining 2:37

Joe Dator

cinephile Megan Dooley

We look at the first two minutes and thirty-seven seconds of Kubrick's masterpiece. The music! The flying! The credits! More weird trivia than you can shake an axe at!

Episode 1: ELECTRIC BLUE CREDITS with New Yorker cartoonist Joe Dator and cinephile Megan Dooley

John Schnall

WFMU Midnight Matinee’s John Schnall sat through The Shining fourteen times when it first came out and lived to talk about it 37 years later for this week’s podcast.   Download the file here: Shining Episode 15   Folk song from Werner Herzog’s Even Dwarfs Started Small (1970)   Commercial from the Keep America Beautiful […]

Episode 15: TENNIS BALL’S OSCAR MOMENT with animator and radio personality John Schnall from the Midnight Matinee on WFMU

Dan Lloyd

Dan Lloyd, former child actor, reminisces about playing Danny in The Shining.   Download the file here: Shining Episode 51     Danny the kid   Dan the adult   (photo by Anthony Taafe)   If you enjoy the podcast, please support my work by donating!

Episode 51: DANNYYY!!! with Dan Lloyd, “Danny” from The Shining

New Yorker cartoonist Joe Dator and cinephile Megan Dooley discuss The Dakota, full-body-experience cinema, and Mr. Nicklas’s fingers. Download the file here: Episode 1: WELCOME TO THE BRAMFORD Bob Odenkirk doing a Robert Evans impersonation on Mr. Show. The crabs that hold up Cleopatra’s Needle in Central Park. A menu from the old Times Square restaurant, […]

Episode 1: WELCOME TO THE BRAMFORD

Cinephile Megan Dooley joins in the discussion of the Polanski controversy: his rape case and additional accusations. Is it even okay to produce a podcast examining his movies? Includes a detailed discussion of the famous case. Download the file here: Episode 0 Pt 1: THE CONTROVERSY Back cover of “Roman” by Roman Polanski (1984) Charlotte Lewis […]

Episode 0 Pt 1: THE CONTROVERSY

Megan Dooley and I stroll through the Overlook, hang out in the office, discuss some ghostly weirdness, and then have a terrible sandwich with Wendy, Danny and Tony.   Download the file here: Shining Episode 2     One of many stories about Kubrick and his obsession with his cats and other pets.   This […]

Episode 2: SAD SANDWICHES AND HAPPY CONSPIRACIES with cinephile Megan Dooley

Lee Unkrich

Oscar-winning filmmaker Lee Unkrich discusses his upcoming book on The Shining, deleted scenes, and reveals the actor who was supposed to play Lloyd.   Download the file here: Shining Episode 48     The ax scene in Sjöström’s The Phantom Carriage (1921)   The ax scene in D.W. Griffith’s Broken Blossoms (1919) is from 1:17:00 until 1:18:05   […]

Episode 48: HEEERE’S SHINING SECRETS with Pixar’s Lee Unkrich

Musician, writer and scholar Nikolas Schreck discusses the history of Satan in cinema, his relationship with Anton LaVey and, as a former confidant to Manson, questions Helter Skelter.   Download the file here: Episode 7: SYMPATHY FOR THE DEVIL   The Hollywood Reporter article in which an associate of Sebring suggests that Sebring knew Manson, […]

Episode 7: SYMPATHY FOR THE DEVIL

Megan Dooley is back to discuss Stanley vs. Winkle, old-timey cinema, and personal horror stories, including a monster sarcoma.   Download the file here: Shining Episode 43     Photos from my visit to The Cinema Museum, London   Possibly the oldest of Willis O’Brien’s animations (1915).   Armature of one of the ape puppets […]

Episode 43: HURTING REAL BAD with cinephile Megan Dooley

Andy Newman

Fran Pado

Andy Newman from The New York Times and performer Fran Pado discuss Hallorann’s death fixation, validate “redrum” as a gimmick, and bonus: We have our first guest who was too scared to make it through the movie!   Download the file here: Shining Episode 49     A free version of The Harlem Globetrotters on […]

Episode 49: CAN’T WATCH, LITERALLY with Andy Newman from The New York Times and Fran Pado from Goddess

Tasha Robinson

Tasha Robinson and Bob J. Koester ponder the characters’ motivations and eyebrows in this unusual interview scene.   Download the file here: Shining Episode 4   Jack Nicholson with crazy hair at the beginning of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.   Jack Nicholson as The Joker trying to pass for normal.   Trivia that […]

Episode 4: POPPING OFF HEADS & STACKING BODIES with Tasha Robinson of Next Picture Show & Bob J. Koester of Immunities

The hosts of the Profiles in Eccentricity podcast, John Fahy, Aaron Pita, and Matt Brousseau, discuss famous Satanists, authentic hand gestures, and we sip the Vodka Blush.   Download the file here: Episode 4: PROFILES IN SATANISM   The Aleister Crowley episode of “Profiles in Eccentricity”   The hand gesture of note.   The Church […]

Episode 4: PROFILES IN SATANISM

Writer and host of the Night Call podcast Molly Lambert discusses morality in Hollywood, Ms. Mia’s life story, and why Dino was actually cooler than Sinatra.   Download the file here: Episode 5: THE MAKINGS OF MIA   DYLAN FARROW ABUSE ACCUSATION LINKS LISTED CHRONOLOGICALLY Mia’s Story, Vanity Fair, November, 1992 Woody Allen, 60 […]

Episode 5: THE MAKINGS OF MIA

John Cassavetes

Kill By Kill podcast’s Gena Radcliffe stops by, along with Megan Dooley, to discuss cannibals, awkward sex, and the infamous TV movie “Look What’s Happened to Rosemary’s Baby.”   Download the file here: Episode 2: LOOK WHAT’S HAPPENED TO JOHN CASSAVETES’ SNEAKERS   Gena Radcliffe’s essay on the TV movie can be found here.   […]

Episode 2: LOOK WHAT’S HAPPENED TO JOHN CASSAVETES’ SNEAKERS

Megan Dooley

Joe Dator and Megan Dooley help wrap up the movie, discussing the credits, and we finally figure out who is haunting the podcast via a séance.   Download the file here: Shining Episode 55     If you have enjoyed this series, please donate!

Episode 55: THE SÉANCE with Joe Dator and Megan Dooley

A roundtable discussion of 2001: A Space Odyssey with Vanity Fair’s Bruce Handy, science writer Corey Powell, and The Pink Smoke’s Chris Funderburg, plus an interview with Georgia Tech’s history of sci-fi professor Lisa Yaszek.   Download the file here: BONUS: 2001   If you enjoy the podcast, please support my work by donating!

BONUS: 2001 Roundtable +Sci-Fi discussion

Stewart Thorndike

Stewart Thorndike, who played Nuala in Eyes Wide Shut and is a horror movie writer and director (Lyle), discusses Wendy’s problematic situation, what’s missing in horror films, and what it was like to act for Kubrick.   Download the file here: Shining Episode 18     Part one of Rob Ager’s essay about the possible […]

Episode 18: FEMALE HORROR with horror writer/director & actor in “Eyes Wide Shut” Stewart Thorndike

Brian Dupre

Listener Brian

Listener and Patreon subscriber Brian Dupre, along with Megan Dooley, discusses Wendy in yellow, a mysterious red book, and a couple of gals in blue.   Download the file here: Shining Episode 19     A book on Stuart Ullman’s desk at the beginning of The Shining, clearly titled Red Book. Is it possible this […]

Episode 19: THE RED BOOK with listener Brian Dupre and cinephile Megan Dooley

Vincenzo Natali

Director Vincenzo Natali discusses the surprising Canadian-ness of The Shining, the business of horror, and his own King adaptation.   Download the file here: Shining Episode 45   Alex Colville painting, Horse and Train, found in the Torrance’s Boulder apartment   Alex Colville painting, Woman and Terrier, found in the Torrance’s Boulder apartment   Alex […]

Episode 45: UNLOCKING JACK with horror director Vincenzo Natali

Megan and I discuss ghost wasps and ghost lamps, plus a whole conversations about sexism and how it relates to the Kubrick world.   Download the file here: Shining Episode 6     Dopey decal, present and missing.   Goofy doll in the background, Shelly reflecting the doll. Shoes, too!   Vivian Kubrick on the […]

Episode 6: DOPEY, GOOFY & SEXISM with Megan Dooley

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