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Happy Halloween! On the fifty- second episode of All the Film Things, my friend and ATFT regular, movie critic Matthieu Côté joins me for an analytical discussion about Stanley Kubrick's 1980 psychological horror classic, The Shining! This episode is spoiler- filled and contains some explicit language.The Shining, a classic psychological horror film which unnerves you instantly with its eerie score, almost entirely takes place at the Overlook Hotel that lies in isolation atop an Indian burial ground. Jack Torrance, played brilliantly by Jack Nicholson, accepts a job as the winter caretaker of the Overlook Hotel, when the hotel is out of commission, in order to get five months of peace and quiet to help him write his book. He brings along his wife Wendy (Shelley Duvall) and son Danny (Danny Lloyd) and, over time, isolation begins to wear on them... especially Jack. Over the course of the film, Jack becomes increasingly mad while Danny's gift of "shining" haunts him of the hotel's evil past, present, and future. While the film is based on Steven King's 1977 book of the same title, King publicly criticized the film on numerous occasions because of the liberties Kubrick took that departed from his original story. King wasn't the only one who disliked the film because, shockingly, The Shining is one of those films, like 12 Angry Men and Fight Club, that wasn't well- received at the time of its release. It wasn't until the film started airing on TV at the end of the 80s that public opinion shifted in favor of Kubrick's film. Today, 45 years later, The Shining is widely considered one of the greatest horror films ever made and contains one of Jack Nicholson's very best performances.This is Matthieu's fourth time on the podcast and he has rapidly earned the title of “ATFT regular”! I had been wanting to do an episode on The Shining for over three years now and when I learned it was Matthieu's favorite film of all time, I knew he was the one to join me in celebrating The Shining for both it's 45th anniversary and Halloween. While Matthieu is enamored with the horror genre, I very much shy away from it. The Shining is my favorite horror film and one of the only few I can really watch, in the daytime of course. This episode was recorded on October 2, 2025. Matthieu has been steadily interviewing filmmakers and actors through both his personal YouTube channel, @matthieucote2272, and through Horreur Québec for a few years now. Most recently, Matthieu was able to check off a bucket list interviewee off his list when he interviewed James Wan. Click to watch that interview here! Also, a few years ago, Matthieu made an analytical video essay analyzing a scene in The Shining titled “The Shining (And the Path to Redemption)- Scene Breakdown” which I highly recommend watching for his incredible insight to the character of Jack Torrence and performance by Jack Nicholson. Subscribe to Matthieu's YouTube channel by clicking here to watch his past interviews, video essays, and more! In this episode, we attempt to understand The Shining's biggest mysteries and discuss the most popular theories about the famous ending. Our analytical conversation, though wide- encompassing, is a bit sporadic since there is seemingly infinite points of discussion through every aspect of this film. It's overwhelming and we only scratched the surface. In this episode, Matthieu and I share our rocky roads to appreciating this film, Kubrick's clever tricks in deceiving the audience, and how Grady could have possibly opened that storage room door for Jack. All this and much more on the latest episode of All the Film Things!Music credit: CURSE by Mehul ShaRma | https://www.instagram.com/mehul_sharmaofficial/Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.comCreative Commons / Attribution 3.0 Unported License (CC BY 3.0)https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en_US
This week, Rob, Dave, and Kurt dive deep into one of the most haunting and visually striking films of the 1980s—Stanley Kubrick's The Shining. Released in 1980 and based (loosely) on Stephen King's novel, the film stars Jack Nicholson as Jack Torrance, a struggling writer who takes a job as the winter caretaker of the isolated Overlook Hotel. Alongside his wife Wendy (Shelley Duvall) and young son Danny (Danny Lloyd), Jack's descent into madness unfolds through Kubrick's signature slow-burn tension, eerie atmosphere, and unforgettable imagery—from the ghostly twins in the hallway to that chilling “Here's Johnny!” moment. The crew explores how The Shining went beyond traditional horror to become a psychological masterpiece. They'll dig into Kubrick's meticulous direction, Nicholson's unhinged performance, and the film's enduring mysteries—from the Overlook's sinister layout to the cryptic final photograph. Expect theories, trivia, and maybe even a few laughs as Rob, Dave, and Kurt revisit what many consider the ultimate blend of artistry and terror in 1980s cinema Pandora: https://pandora.app.link/iq8iShjXOLb Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/totally-80s-and-90s-recall/id1662282694 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/11dk5TUoLUk4euD1Te1EYG?si=b37496eb6e784408 Amazon Music: https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/1960c8f9-158d-43ac-89a6-d868ea1fe077/totally-80s-and-90s-recall YouTube Podcasts: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLH9lGakNgCDZUkkHMUu88uXYMJu_33Rab&si=xo0EEVJRSwS68mWZ Contact Us: Website: https://totally80s90srecall.podbean.com/ Email: 80s90srecall@gmail.com LinkTree:https://linktr.ee/80s90srecall
In this episode of International Horizons, Interim Director Eli Karetny speaks with film scholar Nathan Abrams about the enduring relevance of Stanley Kubrick and what his work can teach us about our current era. From the nuclear absurdities of Dr. Strangelove to the cosmic rebirth of 2001: A Space Odyssey, Kubrick's films expose the fragile line between technological mastery and moral collapse. Abrams unpacks Kubrick's fascination with war, authority, and obedience, his roots in the New York Jewish intellectual tradition, and his exploration of mystical and mythic themes—from Kabbalah to The Odyssey. Together, they reveal how Kubrick's cinematic universe reflects our own: a world where human creativity, paranoia, and power intertwine in both terrifying and illuminating ways. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network
What does it costs to live inside a fantasy built by men? On this episode we prod that viper's nest. David Lynch loved Kubrick's film adaptation of Nabokov's Lolita, so much so that he conjured his own Dolores Haze with Laura Palmer. JOIN PATREON We move between fantasy and wreckage. Between Desire, danger, and the American girl—through the eyes of genius. So put your heart shaped glasses on, pop a lolly in your mouth, and settle in. It's about to get disturbing.Mentioned: The Black Dahlia Lynch discusses Lolita Star Dream Girl
In this episode of International Horizons, Interim Director Eli Karetny speaks with film scholar Nathan Abrams about the enduring relevance of Stanley Kubrick and what his work can teach us about our current era. From the nuclear absurdities of Dr. Strangelove to the cosmic rebirth of 2001: A Space Odyssey, Kubrick's films expose the fragile line between technological mastery and moral collapse. Abrams unpacks Kubrick's fascination with war, authority, and obedience, his roots in the New York Jewish intellectual tradition, and his exploration of mystical and mythic themes—from Kabbalah to The Odyssey. Together, they reveal how Kubrick's cinematic universe reflects our own: a world where human creativity, paranoia, and power intertwine in both terrifying and illuminating ways. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/film
In this episode of International Horizons, Interim Director Eli Karetny speaks with film scholar Nathan Abrams about the enduring relevance of Stanley Kubrick and what his work can teach us about our current era. From the nuclear absurdities of Dr. Strangelove to the cosmic rebirth of 2001: A Space Odyssey, Kubrick's films expose the fragile line between technological mastery and moral collapse. Abrams unpacks Kubrick's fascination with war, authority, and obedience, his roots in the New York Jewish intellectual tradition, and his exploration of mystical and mythic themes—from Kabbalah to The Odyssey. Together, they reveal how Kubrick's cinematic universe reflects our own: a world where human creativity, paranoia, and power intertwine in both terrifying and illuminating ways. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/popular-culture
It's that time of year where we try and delve into the strange and scary for our Halloween episode and this time, we've hit upon altered states (not the Ken Russell film) where our heroes undergo a strange transformation, in TOS ‘Wolf in the Fold,' Bones' obsession with getting Scotty laid ends in a lot of mysterious stabbings that date back to Victorian London while in Voyager's ‘Darkling,' the Doctor's attempt to improve himself by adding bits of other people into him starts making him very large in the tooth and a little too psychosexual towards Kes while in DS9's ‘Empok Nor,' O'Brien, Nog, Garak and a collection of clearly important side characters go to a deserted Cardassian Space Station to steal some wiring ends with psychotropic drug-induced violence. Typical. Happy Halloween!Episodes Discussed: A Wolf In the Fold (13:19) Darkling (42:06) Empok Nor (01:11:42)Talking Points Include: The European cut of Kubrick's ‘The Shining,' Horror Movies, We HATE Pan and Scan, Weird UK Film edits, Bones clearly wanting to get laid, my God, they do a seance, Robert Bloch and Harlan Ellison's twin Ripper stories in ‘Dangerous Visions,' censorship and no Kirk shirt rip for drugs this time, Jack the Ripper in other SF franchises, no walk of shame for Kes, Picardo's make-up leads to a lesson about old special effects, the Civilization Gandhi glitch, does Kes actually grown over her four years, CSI Tuvok, Jeremy Renner-gy, when romantic comedies have to make the rival partner an utter jerk, Robert Picardo with hair is amazing, MMMbop, Tom Waits covering Disney, ‘Cardies' does not work as a derogatory slur, what Brighton sounds like, Garak Bashir and O'Brian probably don't hang out at the same time, the original plan with Worf vs. Garak would not have been as fun, Nog trying too hard, ‘Bolian Dies First,' there's probably a meeting about Garak being a spy.
Film Buds blends the community of weed enjoyers with film buffs. We've created a space for those who love the thrill of being under the influence during a watch of an intense film. In this episode, we discuss the amazing work of Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut. Together, we dive into topics ranging from our favorite scenes to our takes on all the conspiracy theories surrounding the film. By the end of this 18-minute listen, you may want to check out some of Kubrick's enticing work...and even hit up your plug. Olivia Christian: WriterColin McCann: ProducerDerrick Ellison: Editor
Sam Clements is curating a fictional film festival. He'll accept almost anything, but the movie must not be longer than 90 minutes. This is the 90 Minutes Or Less Film Fest podcast. In episode 150 Sam is joined by playwright, screenwriter, and actor Tracy Letts. Tracy is one of stars of Kathryn Bigelow's new film, A House of Dynamite, now streaming on Netflix. Tracy has chosen Paths of Glory (88 mins). Directed by Stanley Kubrick, the 1957 anti-war film stars Kirk Douglas, Adolphe Menjou, and George Macready. Sam and Tracy discuss working with Kathryn Bigelow, why Paths of Glory is his second favourite Kubrick film, and his vast physical media collection. Thank you for downloading. We'll be back in a couple of weeks! Rate and subscribe on Apple Podcasts: https://tinyurl.com/90minfilm If you enjoy the show, please subscribe, rate, review and share with your friends. We're an independent podcast and every recommendation helps - thank you! You can also show your support for the podcast by leaving us a tip at our Ko-fi page: https://ko-fi.com/90minfilmfest Website: 90minfilmfest.com Blue Sky: @90minfilmfest.bsky.social Instagram: @90MinFilmFest We are a proud member of the Stripped Media Network. Hosted and produced by Sam Clements. Edited and produced by Louise Owen. Guest star Tracy Letts. Additional editing and sound mixing by @lukemakestweets. Music by Martin Austwick. Artwork by Sam Gilbey.
On today's episode of the Occult Symbolism and Pop Culture with Isaac Weishaupt podcast we're doing a film analysis of Texas Chainsaw Massacre! We'll talk about the origins and making of the film and walk through the whole story as we reveal symbolism of the elites, astrology, Saturn, blood sacrifice, vampires, energy rituals, voodoo, satanism, Freemasonry, cannibalism and the Illuminati!Links:PAST HALLOWEEN SPECIALS:Halloween Special 2024: Symbolism of the Occult Holiday Samhain! Druids, Satanism, Witchcraft & Sacrifices! https://illuminatiwatcher.com/halloween-special-2024-symbolism-of-the-occult-holiday-samhain-druids-satanism-witchcraft-sacrifices/Halloween 1978 Film Analysis: Michael Myers Alien Theory & Symbolism of the Occult! http://www.illuminatiwatcher.com/halloween-1978-film-analysis-michael-myers-alien-theory-symbolism-of-the-occultHalloween II (1981) Film Analysis- Samhain, 666 and the World's Worst Therapist: Dr Loomis! https://illuminatiwatcher.com/halloween-ii-1981-film-analysis-samhain-666-and-the-worlds-worst-therapist-dr-loomis/Halloween III Season of the Witch Film Analysis: Stonehenge, Samhain Blood Sacrifices & a Twin Peaks Crossover Conspiracy! https://illuminatiwatcher.com/halloween-iii-season-of-the-witch-film-analysis-stonehenge-samhain-blood-sacrifices-a-twin-peaks-crossover-conspiracy/ISAAC'S ONE STOP SHOP- Rumble/YouTube, social media, signed books, audiobooks, shirts & more: AllMyLinks.com/IsaacWShow sponsors- Get discounts while you support the show and do a little self improvement!*CopyMyCrypto.com/Isaac is where you can copy James McMahon's crypto holdings- listeners get access for just $1 WANT MORE?... Check out my UNCENSORED show with my wife, Breaking Social Norms: https://breakingsocialnorms.com/GRIFTER ALLEY- get bonus content AND go commercial free + other perks:*PATREON.com/IlluminatiWatcher : ad free, HUNDREDS of bonus shows, early access AND TWO OF MY BOOKS! (The Dark Path and Kubrick's Code); you can join the conversations with hundreds of other show supporters here: Patreon.com/IlluminatiWatcher (*Patreon is also NOW enabled to connect with Spotify! https://rb.gy/hcq13)*VIP SECTION: Due to the threat of censorship, I set up a Patreon-type system through MY OWN website! IIt's even setup the same: FREE ebooks, Kubrick's Code video! Sign up at: https://illuminatiwatcher.com/members-section/*APPLE PREMIUM: If you're on the Apple Podcasts app- just click the Premium button and you're in! NO more ads, Early Access, EVERY BONUS EPISODE More from Isaac- links and special offers:*BREAKING SOCIAL NORMS podcast, Index of EVERY episode (back to 2014), Signed paperbacks, shirts, & other merch, Substack, YouTube links, appearances & more: https://allmylinks.com/isaacw *STATEMENT: This show is full of Isaac's useless opinions and presented for entertainment purposes. Audio clips used in Fair Use and taken from YouTube videos.
On the 85th episode of Bomb Squad Matinee, Tanner, Austin, Sydney, and Cody discuss Stanley Kubrick's 1975 classic Barry Lyndon. Is this Kubrick's masterpiece? Is Ryan O'Neal's performance as the titular Barry Lyndon a career best? Plunkett mentioned? Tune in to find out!
The Something for Kate and Fanning Dempsey National Park frontman triumphantly returns to the Last Video Store. Paul Dempsey takes us deeper into his love of cinema as he dusts off a Kubrick classic, the iconic work of a Russian master and gets into the new release of the moment ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER - all while Alexei finds out if DREAM SCENARIO was a good staff pick when he was last here… Paul Dempsey's Shotgun Karaoke Vol. II is out NOW! And it rocks. Pick up the album and see it live! Alexei and Maria’s screening at the Sydney Opera House - Saturday Film Club: Bram Stoker’s Dracula Nov 1 Follow ALEXEI TOLIOPOULOS on Letterboxd for all the rental combo lists. Hit up the Last Video Store on instagram for all of our guests picks.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Heeeere's Johnny! And he's brought a whole library of Stephen King movies with him! From Carrie to The Shining, these adaptations remind us why King is the master of horror and why you might want to skip prom this year. This week, Jay and Shua open the book on the world of Stephen King film adaptations, discuss what the author himself thought of them, and see how the master of horror continues to shape pop culture. Whether it's Cujo chasing you down or Pennywise calling from the sewer, it's time to Enjoy Stuff and float on! News Fallout Season 2 premieres December 17 Rush announces their “Fifty Something Tour,” with Geddy, Alex, and drummer Anika Niles Star Wars: Visions Volume 3 cast announced Two poster legends pass away: Renato Cesaro (89) and Drew Struzan (78), iconic artists whose work defined movie magic Check out our TeePublic store for some enjoyable swag and all the latest fashion trends What we're Enjoying Jay attended the “No Kings” rally to help support the power of the human spirit and the freedom of man. Thank you for contributing to the community in a positive way. Shua is immersing himself in the relaxing sounds of Vince Guaraldi. The jazz piano vibes means he's ready to Enjoy Stuff in the most mellow possible. Sci-Fi Saturdays - Sci-Fi Saturdays is currently on hiatus. But Jay continues his 31 Days of Horror at RetroZap.com, a month-long celebration of scary cinema that will keep you up all night! Here's a list of this week's lineup: (Mon) Jennifer's Body (2009) (Tue) The Invitation (2016) (Wed) Relic (2020) (Thu) Candyman (2021) (Fri) The Substance (2024) (Sat) Altered States (1980) (Sun) A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge (1985) Enjoy Stephen King! This week, Shua and Jay dive deep into the eerie, thrilling, and sometimes bloody history of Stephen King adaptations. From Carrie's explosive debut to Kubrick's cold and calculated take on The Shining, the guys explore how filmmakers have interpreted King's stories and how the author himself has responded to those visions. Along the way, they reflect on what makes King's writing so adaptable, the recurring themes that make his work timeless, and how his cinematic universe continues to evolve with remakes and new projects like The Long Walk. It's an episode packed with nostalgia, film history, and plenty of creepy fun because “we all float down here.” What's your favorite Stephen King adaptation? Would you follow a balloon down a sewer? Let us know! First person that emails me with the subject line, “I want to suck your blood” will get a special mention on the show. Let us know. Come talk to us in the Discord channel or send us an email to EnjoyStuff@RetroZap.com
Today Griffey, Heath, Sophia and Sam venture into some of the most insane Haunted Houses in cinematic history. We discuss what elements make the greatest haunted house films so iconic. From found footage, to a surreal hotel, a space ship and even the internet, we cover all manner of places and locations that can haunt unsuspecting visitors. Let us know whose list you think wins this heated battle. Which festival would win your money? Let us know in the comments wherever you find the Podcast. Youtube: https://youtu.be/NOgR9UetaU8 Help us make our first feature length Messed Up Movie: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/mr-creamjean-s-hidey-hole-horror-comedy-movie#/ Support the show on the Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/messedupmoviespod Watch our newest short film Sugar Tits Now! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sz7leFqqo4g
In this Episode: Our Heroes discuss the follow up to Kubrick's 2001, with 2010: The Year We Make Contact. This one is a super interesting layer in this legendary universe. It's WELL worth a watch and has some amazing Russian Bleep Bloops. Tune in..! Follow Us: Our Website Twitter Instagram Facebook Items discussed (links to more info): Note - if the below links don't work in your podcast player please visit the show page at: https://ebd.fm/episodes/322
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FREE book, social medias, appearances & more: https://allmylinks.com/isaacw On today's episode of the Occult Symbolism and Pop Culture with Isaac Weishaupt podcast we wrap up our "Conspiracy Classics" series looking at George Orwell's 1984! Now that we're done with the book from Parts 1 and 2, let's see who George Orwell was and his inspiration for warning us about the 1984 Totalitarian Big Brother government! We'll breakdown the parallels of 1984 with 2025: Newspeak and the origins and meaning of the term "Woke", Palantir's Dark Enlightenment surveillance state, Epstein cover-up memory hole, perpetual war, sex, doublethink and cancel culture, Plato's Republic and what to do now that we know about the 1984 propaganda structures!"2+2=5"In Parts 1 and 2 we'll go through the book and in Part 3 we'll talk about who George Orwell was and how 1984 is happening now through the Dark Enlightenment!Links:1984 Book Club Pt 1: Orwell's Big Brother Dystopian Wasn't Fiction; It Was a Blueprint! Conspiracy Classics Series https://illuminatiwatcher.com/1984-book-club-pt-1-orwells-big-brother-dystopian-wasnt-fiction-it-was-a-blueprint-conspiracy-classics-series/1984 Book Club Pt 2: Orwell's Prophecy Unfolds — Surveillance, Censorship & Psychological Warfare in 2025 https://illuminatiwatcher.com/1984-book-club-pt-2-orwells-prophecy-unfolds-surveillance-censorship-psychological-warfare-in-2025/ONE STOP SHOP- Rumble/YouTube, social media, signed books, audiobooks, shirts & more: AllMyLinks.com/IsaacWShow sponsors- Get discounts while you support the show and do a little self improvement!*CopyMyCrypto.com/Isaac is where you can copy James McMahon's crypto holdings- listeners get access for just $1 WANT MORE?... Check out my UNCENSORED show with my wife, Breaking Social Norms: https://breakingsocialnorms.com/GRIFTER ALLEY- get bonus content AND go commercial free + other perks:*PATREON.com/IlluminatiWatcher : ad free, HUNDREDS of bonus shows, early access AND TWO OF MY BOOKS! (The Dark Path and Kubrick's Code); you can join the conversations with hundreds of other show supporters here: Patreon.com/IlluminatiWatcher (*Patreon is also NOW enabled to connect with Spotify! https://rb.gy/hcq13)*VIP SECTION: Due to the threat of censorship, I set up a Patreon-type system through MY OWN website! IIt's even setup the same: FREE ebooks, Kubrick's Code video! Sign up at: https://illuminatiwatcher.com/members-section/*APPLE PREMIUM: If you're on the Apple Podcasts app- just click the Premium button and you're in! NO more ads, Early Access, EVERY BONUS EPISODE More from Isaac- links and special offers:*BREAKING SOCIAL NORMS podcast, Index of EVERY episode (back to 2014), Signed paperbacks, shirts, & other merch, Substack, YouTube links, appearances & more: https://allmylinks.com/isaacw *STATEMENT: This show is full of Isaac's useless opinions and presented for entertainment purposes. Audio clips used in Fair Use and taken from YouTube videos.
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Holidays in the 2020's just don't hit like they used to. Halloween? Cancelled. Christmas? Stolen. Thanksgiving? You can eat cranberry sauce any day of the week. There's only one celebration that gives us the season for a reason: Big-Ass Pumpkin Day! And this year, a last-minute pivot (damn you to high hell, R.L. Stein) causes the crew to spring a trap on Cody during his favorite day of the year. Join them for a surprise Bop n' A Movie commentary track for Spookley The Square Pumpkin, the harrowing tale of a malformed misfit trapped in a world he never made, spurned by his barnyard brethren until his indoctrination into a brutal Olympiad, his only ally a homunculus torn between loyalties to the opposing worlds of man and nature. A beloved animated classic enjoyed by kids the world over!Check out the mega documentary IN SEARCH OF DARKNESS 1995-99 by CreatorVC: https://90shorrordoc.com?sca_ref=9729058.lIiOUEN8Xdhttps://www.boxofficepulp.com/Listen on Apple: https://www.boxofficepulp.com/appleListen on Spotify: https://www.boxofficepulp.com/spotifyListen on Amazon: https://www.boxofficepulp.com/amazonAll The OTHER Ways to Listen: https://www.boxofficepulp.com/listenFollow on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BoxOfficePulpPodcast/Follow on Twiter/X: https://x.com/BoxOfficePulp
In this episode, we take on Stanley Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket, a searing portrait of the Vietnam War and the ways it strips soldiers of their humanity. From the relentless brutality of boot camp under Gunnery Sergeant Hartman to the chaos of combat, the film offers an unflinching look at the psychological cost of war.We'll explore the film's unforgettable performances, iconic lines, and the split structure that makes it stand apart from other war movies. Whether you're revisiting a classic or seeing it for the first time, this episode digs into why Full Metal Jacket remains one of Kubrick's most powerful works.
On today's episode of the Occult Symbolism and Pop Culture with Isaac Weishaupt podcast we continue with our "Conspiracy Classics" series looking at George Orwell's 1984! We'll wrap up the rest of the book and unpack Big Brother's strategies for mass surveillance, corporate collusion with the government, controlling our thoughts, memory holing reality, MSM doublethink and how other Dark Enlightenment concepts! Winston falls in love (big mistake), two minutes of hate during Hate Week, seeds of rebellion land Winston into the dreaded Room 101, and Great Reset concepts of "Freedom is slavery"!In Parts 1 and 2 we'll go through the book and in Part 3 we'll talk about who George Orwell was and how 1984 is happening now through the Dark Enlightenment!1984 Part 1 (in case you missed the beginning): https://illuminatiwatcher.com/1984-book-club-pt-1-orwells-big-brother-dystopian-wasnt-fiction-it-was-a-blueprint-conspiracy-classics-series/Show sponsors- Get discounts while you support the show and do a little self improvement!*CopyMyCrypto.com/Isaac is where you can copy James McMahon's crypto holdings- listeners get access for just $1 WANT MORE?... Check out my UNCENSORED show with my wife, Breaking Social Norms: https://breakingsocialnorms.com/GRIFTER ALLEY- get bonus content AND go commercial free + other perks:*PATREON.com/IlluminatiWatcher : ad free, HUNDREDS of bonus shows, early access AND TWO OF MY BOOKS! (The Dark Path and Kubrick's Code); you can join the conversations with hundreds of other show supporters here: Patreon.com/IlluminatiWatcher (*Patreon is also NOW enabled to connect with Spotify! https://rb.gy/hcq13)*VIP SECTION: Due to the threat of censorship, I set up a Patreon-type system through MY OWN website! IIt's even setup the same: FREE ebooks, Kubrick's Code video! Sign up at: https://illuminatiwatcher.com/members-section/*APPLE PREMIUM: If you're on the Apple Podcasts app- just click the Premium button and you're in! NO more ads, Early Access, EVERY BONUS EPISODE More from Isaac- links and special offers:*BREAKING SOCIAL NORMS podcast, Index of EVERY episode (back to 2014), Signed paperbacks, shirts, & other merch, Substack, YouTube links, appearances & more: https://allmylinks.com/isaacw *STATEMENT: This show is full of Isaac's useless opinions and presented for entertainment purposes. Audio clips used in Fair Use and taken from YouTube videos.
What leads to one's self-destruction? Why is Black Swan a wonderful counterpart to Carrie? Is Stephen King right in his objection to Kubrick's cold portrayal of Jack Torrence? Let's fall down the rabbit hole of lunacy to discover what makes these classic characters tick. Guest Info Jeff York is a member of the Chicago Indie Critics, whose work you can catch at https://theestablishingshot.org/ Follow him on X @JeffYorkWriter . BlueSky@jeffyorkwriter.bsky.social, Instagram @jeffyorkchicago, TikTok @jeffyorkchicago You can also find him on TikTok as @jeffyorkchicago where he reviews movies while drawing beautiful illustrations of the movies he's reviewing. Subscribe to YPA Reviews for more content. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQrUmfPvYdxuBYuvkAREhxA?view_as=public Go to https://www.ypareviews.com/ to read my written reviews and stay up to date on all of my newest podcast and YouTube content. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/youll-probably-agree/id1453935603 Subscribe on Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/6poDSN5vjKFFk5XVY7SHtq?si=979e81a7063f4005 Subscribe on SoundCloud https://soundcloud.com/user-114056851 Follow Me on X and Instagram @ypareviews My TikTok @ypareviewschicago
Our trip to Stephen King country takes us on a trip out to snowy Colorado for a stay at The Overlook Hotel. It's time for The Shining! Stanley Kubrick and co-writer Diane Johnson infamously made many changes in their adaptation of Stephen King's novel, causing King to get so frustrated he wrote a new adaptation for TV himself. Yet, The Shining lives on, and is widely acclaimed as one of Kubrick's best films. Friend of the show Joaquin Dominguez joins us to discuss one of his most-watched movies of all time as we check in with this influential horror classic. What's your favorite Stephen King adaptation? Let us know at cinemaontappodcast@gmail.com
Welcome to Explore Weekly, your cosmic compass for the latest in sci-fi, horror, comics, and fantasy. This week's roundup is bursting with streaming hits, a spooky list, Broadway-bound musicals, and interplanetary intrigue:
On today's episode of the Occult Symbolism and Pop Culture with Isaac Weishaupt podcast we begin another "Conspiracy Classics" series! We'll be exploring George Orwell's 1984 and the dystopia Totalitarian surveillance government known as Big Brother! In Part 1 we'll crack open the cover and walk through the world of 1984: Winston Smith, Big Brother, the three slogans, the 1984 government structure and propaganda machines, future sex and how the government is manipulating the proles!"Who controls the past, controls the future: who controls the present controls the past."In Parts 1 and 2 we'll go through the book and in Part 3 we'll talk about who George Orwell was and how 1984 is happening now through the Dark Enlightenment!Show sponsors- Get discounts while you support the show and do a little self improvement!*CopyMyCrypto.com/Isaac is where you can copy James McMahon's crypto holdings- listeners get access for just $1 WANT MORE?... Check out my UNCENSORED show with my wife, Breaking Social Norms: https://breakingsocialnorms.com/GRIFTER ALLEY- get bonus content AND go commercial free + other perks:*PATREON.com/IlluminatiWatcher : ad free, HUNDREDS of bonus shows, early access AND TWO OF MY BOOKS! (The Dark Path and Kubrick's Code); you can join the conversations with hundreds of other show supporters here: Patreon.com/IlluminatiWatcher (*Patreon is also NOW enabled to connect with Spotify! https://rb.gy/hcq13)*VIP SECTION: Due to the threat of censorship, I set up a Patreon-type system through MY OWN website! IIt's even setup the same: FREE ebooks, Kubrick's Code video! Sign up at: https://illuminatiwatcher.com/members-section/*APPLE PREMIUM: If you're on the Apple Podcasts app- just click the Premium button and you're in! NO more ads, Early Access, EVERY BONUS EPISODE More from Isaac- links and special offers:*BREAKING SOCIAL NORMS podcast, Index of EVERY episode (back to 2014), Signed paperbacks, shirts, & other merch, Substack, YouTube links, appearances & more: https://allmylinks.com/isaacw *STATEMENT: This show is full of Isaac's useless opinions and presented for entertainment purposes. Audio clips used in Fair Use and taken from YouTube videos.
We chat about the state of the West, the factional revolutions in the USA and the broken science over the years. We mention Aaron Siri and RFK hitting hard, election tomfoolery, puberty blocker controversy the media trying to get Danielle Smith, again the missing science, the shifting Poles, the age of the Buga Sphere, the Pfizer papers, bowel cancer, the police re-iterating what crime is in the cities.... crazy Bend over earth the Atlas suppository is almost here. How does a nation legitimately rid itself of and internal regime trying to destroy it? To gain access to the second half of show and our Plus feed for audio and podcast please clink the link http://www.grimericaoutlawed.ca/support. For second half of video (when applicable and audio) go to our Substack and Subscribe. https://grimericaoutlawed.substack.com/ or to our Locals https://grimericaoutlawed.locals.com/ or Rokfin www.Rokfin.com/Grimerica Patreon https://www.patreon.com/grimericaoutlawed Support the show directly: https://grimericacbd.com/ CBD / THC Tinctures and Gummies https://grimerica.ca/support-2/ Eh-List Podcast and site: https://eh-list.ca/ Eh-List YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheEh-List Our Adultbrain Audiobook Podcast and Website: www.adultbrain.ca Our Audiobook Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@adultbrainaudiobookpublishing/videos Darren's book www.acanadianshame.ca Check out our next trip/conference/meetup - Contact at the Cabin www.contactatthecabin.com Other affiliated shows: www.grimerica.ca The OG Grimerica Show www.Rokfin.com/Grimerica Our channel on free speech Rokfin Join the chat / hangout with a bunch of fellow Grimericans Https://t.me.grimerica https://www.guilded.gg/chat/b7af7266-771d-427f-978c-872a7962a6c2?messageId=c1e1c7cd-c6e9-4eaf-abc9-e6ec0be89ff3 Leave a review on iTunes and/or Stitcher: https://itunes.apple.com/ca/podcast/grimerica-outlawed http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/grimerica-outlawed Sign up for our newsletter http://www.grimerica.ca/news SPAM Graham = and send him your synchronicities, feedback, strange experiences and psychedelic trip reports!! graham@grimerica.com InstaGRAM https://www.instagram.com/the_grimerica_show_podcast/ Purchase swag, with partial proceeds donated to the show www.grimerica.ca/swag Send us a postcard or letter http://www.grimerica.ca/contact/ ART - Napolean Duheme's site http://www.lostbreadcomic.com/ MUSIC Tru Northperception, Felix's Site sirfelix.bandcamp.com Links to the stuff we chatted about: https://x.com/MattGialich/status/1974193803860095436 https://x.com/GuntherEagleman/status/1973017881379013032 https://x.com/thatuapgirl/status/1970376175936508368 https://x.com/ExxAlerts/status/1975270114741358729 https://x.com/el_nagashi/status/1974817907201773910 https://x.com/ShadowofEzra/status/1974924942509777376 https://x.com/RedCollie1/status/1974655572629913814 https://x.com/WarClandestine/status/1975326618672398665 https://x.com/RedPandaKoala/status/1974522490019037200 https://x.com/asystemarchitec/status/1971038959397634275 https://x.com/VigilantFox/status/1971198782076223825 https://x.com/Bubblebathgirl/status/1971235071916134412 https://x.com/alpacaaurelius/status/1972950095114252627?s=43 https://x.com/real_robn/status/1972840309932638417?s=43 https://www.instagram.com/reel/DPKe3PuDmkE/?igsh=MXgwNDVmZm5wbXZvaA%3D%3D https://x.com/tupacabra2/status/1972744741277294738?s=43 https://x.com/EthicalSkeptic/status/1972898575412601077/photo/1 https://x.com/thechiefnerd/status/1972963791248707708?s=43 https://x.com/liz_churchill10/status/1972912584551694485?s=43 https://x.com/nzdsos/status/1972459649413828934/photo/1 https://x.com/newstart_2024/status/1972705958666059810?s=43 https://makisw.substack.com/p/breaking-news-my-colleague-edmonton?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1385328&post_id=174596660&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=24pqe&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email
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It's time to close down your haunted curio shop, grab your anti-teacher assault pencil, and take a trip to the closest madness-mouth, because in this episode the crew welcomes back director David Weiner to the show to talk about his latest entry in CreatorVC's famous line of genre film documentaries, In Search of Darkness: 1994-1999! Pop this into your Talkboy as they have a fascinating chat on the process of putting together the most ambitious (and lengthy) horror retrospective yet, the decision to split the project into two films, what he thinks made the nineties stand out creatively as horror struggled to find its footing financially, and how the upcoming millennium stirred up old fears in audiences as it slowly introduced them to the scares to come.In Search of Darkness 95-99 on sale here: https://90shorrordoc.com?sca_ref=9729058.lIiOUEN8XdSnag yourself a copy and show your support!Also available is a double pack with 90-94: https://90shorrordoc.com/products/in-search-of-darkness-90s?sca_ref=9729058.lIiOUEN8Xd&sca_source=boxofficepulp.comWhile you're at it, pick up the CreatorVC digital filmography: https://90shorrordoc.com/products/digital-bundle-cvc-filmography?sca_ref=9729058.lIiOUEN8XdFind David and CreatorVC elsewhere on the internets:CreatorVC's Website: https://www.creatorvc.com/David on Twitter/X: https://x.com/tikiambassadorIn Search of Darkness on Twitter/X: https://x.com/80sHorrorDocIn Search of Darkness on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/80shorrordoc/In Search of Darkness on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/80sHorrorDocDavid on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/itcamefromblog/David's blog: https://itcamefromblog.com/Check out the mega documentary SLASH TRASH by CreatorVC: https://slashertrashdoc.com?sca_ref=9729058.lIiOUEN8Xdhttps://www.boxofficepulp.com/Listen on Apple: https://www.boxofficepulp.com/appleListen on Spotify: https://www.boxofficepulp.com/spotifyListen on Amazon: https://www.boxofficepulp.com/amazonAll The OTHER Ways to Listen: https://www.boxofficepulp.com/listenFollow on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BoxOfficePulpPodcast/Follow on Twiter/X:
Continuing with our Geektoberfest episodes, we watched all 36 episodes of The Simpsons' Halloween Special. These season treats use a basic "anything goes” plot, while paying homage to Kubrick, Poe, Del Toro, and dozens of other spooky icons, all while keeping it Simpsons hilarious! Quoth the Raven: “Eat my shorts!”Today we added heavy whipping cream to a couple of cans of Great Value Root Beer.Intro and Outro music by Stereoalex on Pond5Send us a text
Check out Cam's latest novel / audio drama here! Him is the most underrated and misunderstood horror movie of the year. In this episode, we're exploring the film's boundless thematic depth and striking visuals to uncover a fascinating inverse Faust theory and an unexpected but bone-deep Kubrick homage. Comparison titles include: Whiplash, Fight Club, Doctor Faustus, Midsommar, and 2001: A Space Odyssey. LINKS: Patreon, YouTube, Spotify, Instagram Feedback & Theories: secondbreakfastpod@gmail.com
On today's episode of the Occult Symbolism and Pop Culture with Isaac Weishaupt podcast we have a special edition swapcast with my man Greg Carlwood over at The Higherside Chats! He gave me permission to share our recent conversation about Diddy, Travis Scott and the Dark Enlightenment! If you're on my supporter feeds you're even going to get the THC+ version of the show- that's the one that includes extra bonus content. I thought this would be ideal since DIddy will surely be back in the news cycle for his sentencing in October.STAY SUBSCRIBED! October I'm coming through with the bangers- we're doing a 3-part book club on George Orwell's 1984, then a film analysis of Texas Chainsaw Massacre and a mystery bonus show for the supporters!Links:THC on YouTube (interview with Isaac): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPK9PQQ2bZU&t=2259sTHC website (full back catalog and sign up for THC+): https://www.thehighersidechats.comIsaac's Appearances & more: AllMyLinks.com/IsaacWShow sponsors- Get discounts while you support the show and do a little self improvement!*CopyMyCrypto.com/Isaac is where you can copy James McMahon's crypto holdings- listeners get access for just $1 WANT MORE?... Check out my UNCENSORED show with my wife, Breaking Social Norms: https://breakingsocialnorms.com/GRIFTER ALLEY- get bonus content AND go commercial free + other perks:*PATREON.com/IlluminatiWatcher : ad free, HUNDREDS of bonus shows, early access AND TWO OF MY BOOKS! (The Dark Path and Kubrick's Code); you can join the conversations with hundreds of other show supporters here: Patreon.com/IlluminatiWatcher (*Patreon is also NOW enabled to connect with Spotify! https://rb.gy/hcq13)*VIP SECTION: Due to the threat of censorship, I set up a Patreon-type system through MY OWN website! IIt's even setup the same: FREE ebooks, Kubrick's Code video! Sign up at: https://illuminatiwatcher.com/members-section/*APPLE PREMIUM: If you're on the Apple Podcasts app- just click the Premium button and you're in! NO more ads, Early Access, EVERY BONUS EPISODE More from Isaac- links and special offers:*BREAKING SOCIAL NORMS podcast, Index of EVERY episode (back to 2014), Signed paperbacks, shirts, & other merch, Substack, YouTube links, appearances & more: https://allmylinks.com/isaacw *STATEMENT: This show is full of Isaac's useless opinions and presented for entertainment purposes. Audio clips used in Fair Use and taken from YouTube videos.
On today's episode of the Occult Symbolism and Pop Culture with Isaac Weishaupt podcast we are joined by a true renaissance woman who's done it all: from writing and journalism to filmmaking and collaborating with David Lynch and Dennis Hopper; she's the creator of the Library of Esoterica book series from the iconic publishing house Taschen! She spends some time with us to share her life's journey into the esoteric realms we talk about so often. She discusses the artistry and experiences with Dennis Hopper and David Lynch, republishing Manly P Hall's The Secret Teachings of all Ages and how to access the artistic realms!Links:Library of Esoterica Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thelibraryofesoterica/?hl=enLibrary of Esoterica (where you can get the email newsletter signup): https://thelibraryofesoterica.comBuy the beautiful Library of Esoterica books here! Affiliate link profits go to Care.org: https://linktr.ee/thelibraryofesoterica?fbclid=PAZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAafKtp7fYXbcg9OX7kMzNfYzyWI1X0p0JQZvga0UQctqCrGQgKZCoetC0b-OOw_aem_0xCM3w6hRSFIJMr90fax_QFollow Jessica Hundley's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jesshundley/?hl=enShow sponsors- Get discounts while you support the show and do a little self improvement!*CopyMyCrypto.com/Isaac is where you can copy James McMahon's crypto holdings- listeners get access for just $1 WANT MORE?... Check out my UNCENSORED show with my wife, Breaking Social Norms: https://breakingsocialnorms.com/GRIFTER ALLEY- get bonus content AND go commercial free + other perks:*PATREON.com/IlluminatiWatcher : ad free, HUNDREDS of bonus shows, early access AND TWO OF MY BOOKS! (The Dark Path and Kubrick's Code); you can join the conversations with hundreds of other show supporters here: Patreon.com/IlluminatiWatcher (*Patreon is also NOW enabled to connect with Spotify! https://rb.gy/hcq13)*VIP SECTION: Due to the threat of censorship, I set up a Patreon-type system through MY OWN website! IIt's even setup the same: FREE ebooks, Kubrick's Code video! Sign up at: https://illuminatiwatcher.com/members-section/*APPLE PREMIUM: If you're on the Apple Podcasts app- just click the Premium button and you're in! NO more ads, Early Access, EVERY BONUS EPISODE More from Isaac- links and special offers:*BREAKING SOCIAL NORMS podcast, Index of EVERY episode (back to 2014), Signed paperbacks, shirts, & other merch, Substack, YouTube links, appearances & more: https://allmylinks.com/isaacw *STATEMENT: This show is full of Isaac's useless opinions and presented for entertainment purposes. Audio clips used in Fair Use and taken from YouTube videos.
On today's episode of the Occult Symbolism and Pop Culture with Isaac Weishaupt podcast we're wrapping up our deep dive into Fight Club! We'll finish the film and break down all of the symbolism we've been witnessing in the conclusion of this ritualistic initiation into practices of MKULTRA alters, Gnostic Nihilism, human sacrificial soap, red pill manosphere, consumerism manipulation of mankind and 9/11 predictive programming! Join along as we hit the bottom of the Abyss through the ultimate death and rebirth ritual of Project Mayhem!Links:Fight Club Film Analysis (Part 1): MKULTRA, Freemasonry, Human Sacrifice & Shadow Work! https://illuminatiwatcher.com/fight-club-film-analysis-part-1-mkultra-freemasonry-human-sacrifice-shadow-work/Show sponsors- Get discounts while you support the show and do a little self improvement!*CopyMyCrypto.com/Isaac is where you can copy James McMahon's crypto holdings- listeners get access for just $1 WANT MORE?... Check out my UNCENSORED show with my wife, Breaking Social Norms: https://breakingsocialnorms.com/GRIFTER ALLEY- get bonus content AND go commercial free + other perks:*PATREON.com/IlluminatiWatcher : ad free, HUNDREDS of bonus shows, early access AND TWO OF MY BOOKS! (The Dark Path and Kubrick's Code); you can join the conversations with hundreds of other show supporters here: Patreon.com/IlluminatiWatcher (*Patreon is also NOW enabled to connect with Spotify! https://rb.gy/hcq13)*VIP SECTION: Due to the threat of censorship, I set up a Patreon-type system through MY OWN website! IIt's even setup the same: FREE ebooks, Kubrick's Code video! Sign up at: https://illuminatiwatcher.com/members-section/*APPLE PREMIUM: If you're on the Apple Podcasts app- just click the Premium button and you're in! NO more ads, Early Access, EVERY BONUS EPISODE More from Isaac- links and special offers:*BREAKING SOCIAL NORMS podcast, Index of EVERY episode (back to 2014), Signed paperbacks, shirts, & other merch, Substack, YouTube links, appearances & more: https://allmylinks.com/isaacw *STATEMENT: This show is full of Isaac's useless opinions and presented for entertainment purposes. Audio clips used in Fair Use and taken from YouTube videos.
In The Shining, a family heads to an isolated hotel for the winter where a sinister presence influences the father into violence. The young son, gifted with psychic abilities, witnesses disturbing visions of the past and future.Starring Danny Lloyd, Jack Nicholson and Shelley Duvall and directed by Stanley Kubrick, The Shining was released May 23, 1980.Recommendations:Tim — Doctor Sleep (Flanagan, 2019)—where to watchTay — El Orfanato (Bayona, 2007)—where to watchFollow: SSC on Instagram Tim on Letterboxd
https://patreon.com/illuminatiwatcher UNLOCK AD-FREE AND HUNDREDS OF BONUS EPISODES!On today's episode of the Occult Symbolism and Pop Culture with Isaac Weishaupt podcast we're beginning a full decode of the cult classic film Fight Club! We'll go through the entire film and point out the symbolism of MKULTRA mind control programming, alter egos, Freemasonry, ritual initiation of death and rebirth, the true meaning of soap, Order out of Chaos, human sacrifice, reconciliation of opposing polarities, Know Thyself, integrating the Shadow, nihilism, Project Mayhem, red pill alpha bro masculinity, Gnosticism, consumerism and 9/11 predictive programming! Stay subscribed for Part 2- coming soonShow sponsors- Get discounts while you support the show and do a little self improvement!*CopyMyCrypto.com/Isaac is where you can copy James McMahon's crypto holdings- listeners get access for just $1 WANT MORE?... Check out my UNCENSORED show with my wife, Breaking Social Norms: https://breakingsocialnorms.com/GRIFTER ALLEY- get bonus content AND go commercial free + other perks:*PATREON.com/IlluminatiWatcher : ad free, HUNDREDS of bonus shows, early access AND TWO OF MY BOOKS! (The Dark Path and Kubrick's Code); you can join the conversations with hundreds of other show supporters here: Patreon.com/IlluminatiWatcher (*Patreon is also NOW enabled to connect with Spotify! https://rb.gy/hcq13)*VIP SECTION: Due to the threat of censorship, I set up a Patreon-type system through MY OWN website! IIt's even setup the same: FREE ebooks, Kubrick's Code video! Sign up at: https://illuminatiwatcher.com/members-section/*APPLE PREMIUM: If you're on the Apple Podcasts app- just click the Premium button and you're in! NO more ads, Early Access, EVERY BONUS EPISODE More from Isaac- links and special offers:*BREAKING SOCIAL NORMS podcast, Index of EVERY episode (back to 2014), Signed paperbacks, shirts, & other merch, Substack, YouTube links, appearances & more: https://allmylinks.com/isaacw *STATEMENT: This show is full of Isaac's useless opinions and presented for entertainment purposes. Audio clips used in Fair Use and taken from YouTube videos.
Eyes Wide Shut is one of the most controversial and infamous films ever made. Even after decades of analysis, Kubrick's film still provides endless conversations of the nature of how the so-called elites run the world. More recent examples of this can be seen in Squid Games. *The is the FREE archive, which includes advertisements. If you want an ad-free experience, you can subscribe below underneath the show description.FREE ARCHIVE (w. ads)SUBSCRIPTION ARCHIVEX / TWITTER FACEBOOKWEBSITEBuyMe-CoffeePaypal: rdgable1991@gmail.comCashApp: $rdgable EMAIL: rdgable@yahoo.com / TSTRadio@protonmail.comBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-secret-teachings--5328407/support.
Send us a textThis week we review the season four episode Endgame.Mike is confused about where the fleet went, Sarah tells us stories from general Leftcourt's academy days, and Joe notes that JMS was definitely not inspired by Kubrick.Music from this episode:"Surf Punk Rock" By absentrealities is licensed under CC-BY 3.0"Please Define The Error" By Delta Centauri is licensed under CC-BY 3.0"The Haunted McMansion" By Megabit Melodies is licensed under CC-BY 3.0
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What do wax museums, Twin Peaks, wolf-men, MTV, S&M sex, the Amiga 1000, and the the invisible man have in common, outside of captivating America? Anthony Hickox's 1988 debut feature, Waxwork! In the newest edition of BOP n' A Movie's commentary series on the history of cinematic wax, the crew looks at an entry that may not be the brightest stick on the candelabra, but maybe the most fun. Starring Zach “from Gremlins” Galligan, David “that TGRI Guy” Warner, and Dana “I didn't kill my girlfriend, Laura Palmer” Ashbrook, this gloriously cheesy Sci-Fi Network favorite uses the museum format to take its cast on a journey through time and space to rival Doctor Who… which is appropriate considering how Warner is dressed. But will Cody survive his latest wax drink? And will they just keep the recorder on while they watch Waxwork II: It's About Time? Follow the tiny butler and step inside!https://www.boxofficepulp.com/Listen on Apple: https://www.boxofficepulp.com/appleListen on Spotify: https://www.boxofficepulp.com/spotifyListen on Amazon: https://www.boxofficepulp.com/amazonAll The OTHER Ways to Listen: https://www.boxofficepulp.com/listenFollow on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BoxOfficePulpPodcast/Follow on Twiter/X: https://x.com/BoxOfficePulp
This week on The Rotten Horror Picture Show Podcast, Clay and Amanda are tackling a film that might just be the most confusing sequel in horror history: Mike Flanagan's Doctor Sleep (2019). Now, don't get me wrong — it's a solid, spooky ride with Ewan McGregor as an older Danny Torrance, still haunted by the Overlook and trying to cope with his powers. But here's the thing: is this a sequel to *The Shining* the book? Or *The Shining* the movie? Or some strange in-between hybrid stitched together with ghostly typewriters and whiskey breath? Because I swear, every time I try to explain it to someone, I feel like I need a chalkboard, some red string, and a shot of bourbon.On the one hand, Doctor Sleep is based on Stephen King's novel of the same name, which itself was written as a direct sequel to his original Shining book. That means we're supposed to be following King's continuity — the one where the Overlook Hotel burned to the ground at the end. But on the other hand, Flanagan clearly loves Kubrick's *film*, and he goes out of his way to make *Doctor Sleep* visually and tonally connect to that version. Which means the Overlook is still standing, the carpet patterns are back, and suddenly it feels like we're living in a cinematic multiverse before Marvel made it cool.Clay and Amanda dive into all this messy, fascinating crossover territory — breaking down how Flanagan managed to honor both King and Kubrick, while still creating something that stands on its own. They'll also talk about Rebecca Ferguson's terrifyingly charismatic performance as Rose the Hat, creepy steam-slurping cults, and what happens when childhood trauma grows up with you.Me? I'm still stuck asking: so wait… which Shining is this shining shining from?And don't forget to head over to patreon.com/thepenskyfile to follow Clay and Amanda down the muddy path of remakes and reboots too!
My fellow pro-growth/progress/abundance Up Wingers,In 1976, America celebrated 200 years of independence, democracy, and progress. Part of that celebration was the release of To Fly!, a short but powerful docudrama on the history of American flight. With To Fly!, Greg MacGillivray and his co-director Jim Freeman created one of the earliest IMAX films, bringing cinematography to new heights.After a decade of war and great social unrest, To Fly! celebrated the American identity and freedom to innovate. Today on Faster, Please! — The Podcast, I talk with MacGillivray about filming To Fly! and its enduring message of optimism.MacGillivray has produced and directed films for over 60 years. In that time, his production company has earned two Academy Award nominations, produced five of the Top 10 highest-grossing IMAX films, and has reached over 150 million viewers.In This Episode* The thrill of watching To Fly! (1:38)* An innovative filming process (8:25)* A “you can do it” movie (19:07)* Competing views of technology (25:50)Below is a lightly edited transcript of our conversation. The thrill of watching To Fly! (1:38)What Jim and I tried to do is put as many of the involving, experiential tricks into that film as we possibly could. We wrote the film based on all of these moments that we call “IMAX moments.”Pethokoukis: The film To Fly! premiered at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum, at the IMAX Theater, July 1976. Do you happen know if it was it the 4th of July or. . . ?MacGillivray: No, you know, what they did is they had the opening on the 2nd of July so that it wouldn't conflict with the gigantic bicentennial on the 4th, but it was all part of the big celebration in Washington at that moment.I saw the film in the late '70s at what was then called the Great America Amusement Park in Gurnee, Illinois. I have a very clear memory of this, of going in there, sitting down, wondering why I was sitting and going to watch a movie as opposed to being on a roller coaster or some other ride — I've recently, a couple of times, re-watched the film — and I remember the opening segment with the balloonist, which was shot in a very familiar way. I have a very clear memory because when that screen opened up and that balloon took off, my stomach dropped.It was a film as a thrill ride, and upon rewatching it — I didn't think this as a 10-year-old or 11-year-old — but what it reminded me upon rewatching was of Henry V, Lawrence Olivier, 1944, where the film begins in the Globe Theater and as the film goes on, it opens up and expands into this huge technicolor extravaganza as the English versus the French. It reminds me of that. What was your reaction the first time you saw that movie, that film of yours you made with Jim Freeman, on the big screen where you could really get the full immersive effect?It gave me goosebumps. IMAX, at that time, was kind of unknown. The Smithsonian Air and Space Museum was the fourth IMAX theater built, and very few people had seen that system unless you visited world's fairs around the world. So we knew we had something that people were going to grasp a hold of and love because, like you said, it's a combination of film, and storytelling, and a roller coaster ride. You basically give yourself away to the screen and just go with it.What Jim and I tried to do is put as many of the involving, experiential tricks into that film as we possibly could. We wrote the film based on all of these moments that we call “IMAX moments.” We tried to put as many in there as we could, including the train coming straight at you and bashing right into the camera where the audience thinks it's going to get run over. Those kinds of moments on that gigantic screen with that wonderful 10 times, 35-millimeter clarity really moved the audience and I guess that's why they used it at Great America where you saw it.You mentioned the train and I remember a story from the era of silent film and the first time people saw a train on silent film, they jumped, people jumped because they thought the train was coming at them. Then, of course, we all kind of got used to it, and this just occurred to me, that film may have been the first time in 75 years that an audience had that reaction again, like they did with first with silent film where they thought the train was going to come out of the screen to To Fly! where, once again, your previous experience looking at a visual medium was not going to help you. This was something completely different and your sense perception was totally surprised by it.Yeah, it's true. Obviously we were copying that early train shot that started the cinema way back in probably 1896 or 1898. You ended up with To Fly! . . . we knew we had an opportunity because the Air and Space Museum, we felt, was going to be a huge smash hit. Everyone was interested in space right at that moment. Everyone was interested in flying right at that moment. Basically, as soon as it opened its doors, the Air and Space Museum became the number one museum in America, and I think it even passed the Louvre that year in attendance.Our film had over a million and a half people in its first year, which was astounding! And after that year of run, every museum in the world wanted an IMAX theater. Everyone heard about it. They started out charging 50 cents admission for the 27-minute IMAX film, and halfway through the season, they got embarrassed because they were making so much money. They reduced the admission price to 25 cents and everyone was happy. The film was so fun to watch and gave you information in a poetic way through the narration. The storytelling was simple and chronological. You could follow it even if you were a 10-year-old or an 85-year-old, and people just adored the movie. They wrote letters to the editor. The Washington Post called it the best film in the last 10 years, or something like that. Anyway, it was really a heady of time for IMAX.An innovative filming process (8:25)It was one of those things where our knowledge of technology and shooting all kinds of various films prior to that that used technology, we just basically poured everything into this one movie to try to prove the system, to try to show people what IMAX could do . . .I may have just read the Washington Post review that you mentioned. It was a Washington Post review from just three or four years later, so not that long after, and in the conclusion to that piece, it said, “You come away from the film remembering the flying, the freedom of it, the glee, the exaltation. No Wonder ‘To Fly' is a national monument.” So already calling it a national monument, but it took some innovation to create that monument. This isn't just a piece of great filmmaking and great storytelling, it's a piece of technological innovation. I wonder if you could tell me about that.We've worked with the IMAX corporation, particularly Graeme Ferguson, who is gone now, but he was a filmmaker and helped us immensely. Not only guiding, because he'd made a couple of IMAX films previously that just showed at individual theaters, but was a great filmmaker and we wanted three more cameras built—there was only one camera when we began, and we needed three, actually, so we could double shoot and triple shoot different scenes that were dangerous. They did that for us in record time. Then we had to build all these kind of imaginative camera mounts. A guy named Nelson Tyler, Tyler Camera Systems in Hollywood, helped us enormously. He was a close friend and basically built an IMAX camera mount for a helicopter that we called the “monster mount.” It was so huge.The IMAX camera was big and huge on its own, so it needed this huge mount, and it carried the IMAX camera flawlessly and smoothly through the air in a helicopter so that there weren't any bumps or jarring moments so the audience would not get disturbed but they would feel like they were a bird flying. You needed that smoothness because when you're sitting up close against that beautifully detailed screen, you don't want any jerk or you're going to want to close your eyes. It's going to be too nauseating to actually watch. So we knew we had to have flawlessly smooth and beautiful aerials shot in the best light of the day, right at dawn or right at sunset. The tricks that we used, the special camera mounts, we had two different camera mounts for helicopters, one for a Learjet, one for a biplane. We even had a balloon mount that went in the helium balloon that we set up at the beginning of the film.It was one of those things where our knowledge of technology and shooting all kinds of various films prior to that that used technology, we just basically poured everything into this one movie to try to prove the system, to try to show people what IMAX could do . . . There are quiet moments in the film that are very powerful, but there's also these basic thrill moments where the camera goes off over the edge of a cliff and your stomach kind of turns upside down a little bit. Some people had to close their eyes as they were watching so they wouldn't get nauseated, but that's really what we wanted. We wanted people to experience that bigness and that beauty. Basically the theme of the movie was taking off into the air was like the opening of a new eye.Essentially, you re-understood what the world was when aviation began, when the first balloonists took off or when the first airplane, the Wright Brothers, took off, or when we went into space, the change of perspective. And obviously IMAX is the ultimate change of perspectiveWhen I watched the entire film — I've watched it a few times since on YouTube, which I think somebody ripped from a laser disc or something — maybe six months ago, I had forgotten the space sequence. This movie came out a year before Star Wars, and I was looking at that space sequence and I thought, that's pretty good. I thought that really held up excellent. As a documentary, what prepared you to do that kind of sequence? Or was that something completely different that you really had to innovate to do?I had loved 2001: A Space Odyssey, the Kubrick film, and one of the special effects supervisors was Doug Trumbull. So we called Doug and said, “Look, I want to make the sequence. It's going to be short, but it's going to pay homage to space travel and what could happen in the future.” And he guided us a little bit, showed us how to make kind of the explosions of space that he'd done in 2001 using microscopic paint, so we had to develop a camera lens that fit on the IMAX camera that could shoot just a very small area, like half an inch across, where paint in a soluble mixture could then explode. We shot it in slow motion, and then we built a Starship, kind of like a Star Wars-looking — though, as you mentioned, Star Wars had not come out yet — kind of a spaceship that we then superimposed against planets that we photographed, Jupiter and Saturn. We tried to give the feeling and the perspective that that could give us with our poetic narrator, and it worked. It kind of worked, even though it was done on a very small budget. We had $690,000 to make that movie. So we only had one SAG actor who actually got paid the regular wage, that was Peter Walker.Was that the balloonist?Yeah, he was the balloonist. And he was a stage actor, so he was perfect, because I wanted something to obviously be a little bit overblown, make your gestures kind of comically big, and he was perfect for it. But we only had enough money to pay him for one day, so we went to Vermont and put him in the balloon basket, and we shot everything in one day. We never actually shot him flying. We shot him hanging in the balloon basket and the balloon basket was hanging from a crane that was out of the picture, and so we could lift him and make him swing past us and all that stuff, and he was terrific.Then we shot the real balloon, which was a helium balloon. We got the helium from the Navy — which would've been very costly, but they donated the helium — and went to West Virginia where the forest was basically uncut and had no power lines going through it so we could duplicate 1780 or whatever the year was with our aerial shooting. And we had a guy named Kurt Snelling, who was probably the best balloonist at that particular moment, and he dressed like Peter in the same costume and piloted the balloon across. And balloons, you can't tell where they're going, they just follow the wind, and so it was a little dangerous, but we got it all done. It was about a week and a half because we had to wait for weather. So we had a lot of weather days and bad rain in West Virginia when we shot that, but we got it all done, and it looks beautiful, and it matches in with Peter pretty well.Just what you've described there, it sounds like a lot: You're going to Maine, you're in West Virginia, you're getting helium from — it sounds like there were a lot of moving parts! Was this the most ambitious thing you had done up until that point?Well, we'd worked on some feature films before, like The Towering Inferno and Jonathan Livingston Seagull, and things like that, which were involved and very complicated. But yeah, it was very much the biggest production that we put together on our own, and it required us to learn how to produce in a big fashion. It was a thrill for us. Essentially, we had about 10 people working on the film in Laguna Beach, and none of them, except for maybe Jim and I, who we'd worked on feature films and complicated shoots with actors and all that, but a lot of our team hadn't. And so it was an adventure. Every day was a thrill.A “you can do it” movie (19:07). . . we were celebrating 200 years of democracy, of individual freedom, of individual inspiration, getting past obstacles, because you can do it — you have that belief that you can do it.There's a version of this podcast where we spend a half hour talking about The Towering Inferno. I just want you to know that it's very hard for me not to derail the conversation into talking about The Towering Inferno. I will not do that, but let me ask you this, the movie is about flight, it's about westward expansion, but that movie, it came out for the bicentennial, we'd gone through a tumultuous, let's say past 10 years: You had Vietnam, there's social unrest, you had Watergate. And the movie really must have just seemed like a breath of fresh air for people.As you put the movie together, and wrote it, and filmed it, did you feel like you were telling a message other than just about our connection with flight? It really seemed to me to be more than that, a movie about aspiration, and curiosity, and so forth.It was, and pretty much all of our films have been that positive spirit, “You can do it” kind of movie. Even our surfing films that we started with 20 years, maybe 10 years before To Fly!, you end up with that spirit of the human's ability to go beyond. And obviously celebrating the bicentennial and the beginning of democracy here in this country and the fact that we were celebrating 200 years of democracy, of individual freedom, of individual inspiration, getting past obstacles, because you can do it — you have that belief that you can do it.Of course, this was right there when everyone had felt, okay, we went to the moon, we did all kinds of great things. We were inventive and a lot of that spirit of invention, and curiosity, and accomplishment came from the fact that we were free as individuals to do it, to take risks. So I think To Fly! had a lot of that as part of it.But the interesting thing, I thought, was I had one meeting with Michael Collins, who was the director of the Air and Space Museum and the astronaut who circled the moon as Neil and Buzz Aldrin were on the moon walking around, and here he is, hoping that these two guys will come back to him so that the three of them can come back to Earth — but they'd never tested the blast-off from the moon's surface, and they didn't know 100 percent that it was going to work, and that was the weirdest feeling.But what Collins told me in my single meeting that I had with him, he said, “Look, I've got a half an hour for you, I'm building a museum, I've got two years to do it.” And I said, “Look, one thing I want to know is how much facts and figures do you want in this movie? We've got a little over a half an hour to do this film. The audience sits down in your theater, what do you want me to do?” And he said, “Give me fun. Give me the IMAX experience. I don't want any facts and figures. I don't want any dates. I don't want any names. I've got plenty of those everywhere else in the museum. People are going to be sick of dates and names. Give me fun, give me adventure.” And I said, “Oh gosh, we know how to do that because we started out making surfing films.” and he goes, “Do that. Make me a surfing film about aviation.” It was probably the best advice, because he said, “And I don't want to see you again for two years. Bring me back a film. I trust you. I've seen your films. Just go out and do it.” And that was probably the best management advice that I've ever received.So you weren't getting notes. I always hear about studios giving filmmakers notes. You did not get notes.The note I got was, “We love it. Put it on the screen now.” What they did do is they gave me 26 subjects. They said, “Here's the things that we think would be really cool in the movie. We know you can't use 26 things because that's like a minute per sequence, so you pick which of those 26 to stick in.” And I said, “What I'm going to do then is make it chronological so people will somewhat understand it, otherwise it's going to be confusing as heck.” And he said, “Great, you pick.” So I picked things that I knew I could do, and Jim, of course, was right there with me all the time.Then we had a wonderful advisor in Francis Thompson who at that time was an older filmmaker from New York who had done a lot of world's fair films, hadn't ever done IMAX, but he'd done triple-screen films and won an Academy Award with a film called To Be Alive! and he advised us. Graeme Ferguson, as I mentioned, advised us, but we selected the different sequences, probably ended up with 12 sequences, each of which we felt that we could handle on our meager budget.It was delightful that Conoco put up the money for the film as a public service. They wanted to be recognized in the bicentennial year, and they expected that the film was going to run for a year, and then of course today it's still running and it's going into its 50th year now. And so it's one of those things that was one of those feel-good moments of my life and feel-good moments for the Air and Space Museum, Michael Collins, for everyone involved.Competing views of technology (25:50)Our film was the feel-good, be proud to be an American and be proud to be a human being, and we're not messing up everything. There's a lot that's going right.When rewatching it, I was reminded of the 1982 film Koyaanisqatsi by Godfrey Reggio, which also had a very famous scene of a 747 looming at the camera. While yours was a joyous scene, I think we're supposed to take away an ominous message about technology in that film. That movie was not a celebration of flight or of technology. Have you wondered why just six years after To Fly!, this other film came out and conveyed a very different message about technology and society.I love Koyaanisqatsi, and in fact, we helped work on that. We did a lot of the aerial shooting for that.I did not know that.And Godfrey Reggio is an acquaintance, a friend. We tried to actually do a movie together for the new millennium, and that would've been pretty wild.Certainly a hypnotic film, no doubt. Fantastic.Yeah. But their thesis was, yeah, technology's gotten beyond us. It's kind of controlled us in some fashions. And with the time-lapse sequences and the basic frenetic aspects of life and war and things like that. And with no narration. That film lets the audience tell the story to themselves, guided by the visuals and the technique. Our film was absolutely a 100 percent positive that the 747 that we had was the number one 747 ever built. Boeing owned it. I don't think they'd started selling them, or they were just starting to use them. Everyone was amazed by the size of this airplane, and we got to bolt our IMAX camera on the bottom of it, and then it was such a thrill to take that big 747.The guy took off from Seattle and the pilot said, “Okay, now where do you want to go?” I said, “Well, I want to find clouds. And he goes, “Well, there's some clouds over next to Illinois. We could go there,” so we go two hours towards Illinois. And I'm in a 737 that they loaned us with the IMAX camera in a brand new window that we stuck in the side of the 737, just absolutely clear as the sheet of glass, just a single pane, and the camera's right up against that piece of plexiglass and with the 40-millimeter lens, which is a 90-degree lens.So I said, “We've got to fly the 737 really close to the 747 and through clouds so that the clouds are wisping through, and so the 747 is disappearing and then appearing and then disappearing and then appear, and we have to do this right at sunset in puffy clouds, these big cumulus clouds.” And so they said, “We can do that, let's go find it!” The two guys who were piloting were both military pilots, so they were used to flying in formation and it was a delight. We shot roll, after roll, after roll and got some of those moments where that 747 comes out into light after being in the white of the cloud are just stunning. So we made the 747 look almost like a miniature plane, except for the shot from underneath where you see the big wheels coming up. So it was a really cool, and I don't know what it cost Boeing to do that, but hundreds of thousands, maybe.Another public service.But they got it back. Obviously it was a heroic moment in the film, and their beautiful plane, which went on to sell many, many copies and was their hero airplane for so many years.Yeah, sure.It was a fun deal. So in comparison to Koyaanisqatsi, our film was the exact opposite. Our film was the feel-good, be proud to be an American and be proud to be a human being, and we're not messing up everything. There's a lot that's going right.I feel like there's a gap in what we get out of Hollywood, what we get out of the media. You don't want just feel-good films. You don't want just celebrations. You want the full range of our lives and of human experience, but I feel like, Koyaanisqatsi is about being out of balance, I think we've gotten out of balance. I just don't see much out there that has the kind of aspirational message with To Fly! I'm not sure what you think. I feel like we could use more of that.Yeah, I'm hopeful that I'm going to be able to make a movie called A Beautiful Life, which is all about the same thing that I was talking about, the freedom that the individual has here in America. I was hopeful to do it for the 250th anniversary, but I'm not going to get it done by that time next year. But I want to do that movie kind of as a musical celebration of almost a “family of man” sort of movie located around the world with various cultures and positive spirit. I'm an optimist, I'm a positive person. That's the joy I get out of life. I suppose that's why Jim and I were perfect to make To Fly! 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"What do a machete-wielding motel employee, a hot dog sushi roll, and a heartfelt 9/11 memory have in common?" They all somehow fit into this unforgettable, emotionally charged, and hilariously chaotic episode of The Ben and Skin Show. Ben Rogers, Jeff “Skin” Wade, Kevin “KT” Turner, and Krystina Ray navigate everything from the death of Charlie Kirk, a decapitation in Dallas, and Cowboys injury news. Also...Personal stories from 9/11, ranging from Ben's CBS sales meeting to Christina's sixth-grade classroom, and KT's junior high football practice where a classmate screamed “World War III!”A local Dallas beheading story. A deep dive into Cowboys cornerback drama and the mystery of Jadeveon Clowney's visit.Food news that includes Potbelly's $566M acquisition, Taco Bell's Y2K menu, and the culinary monstrosity known as the hot dog sushi roll.A tribute to Polly Holliday (Flo from Alice), who passed away just days after the crew randomly discussed her on-air.A preview of Paul Thomas Anderson's new film starring DiCaprio, Sean Penn, and Benicio Del Toro — described by Spielberg as “Kubrick-level absurdist brilliance.”Funniest Quotes:“My buzzer needs an oil change.”“I burned my tongue on a Texas Twinkie.”“You're getting your sack tenderized?”“I put it in the wrong hole. That's my fault.”
"Would you eat a sweet soy-glazed hot dog wrapped in seaweed… or are some culinary mashups just too far?"In this wildly entertaining segment of The Ben and Skin Show, Ben Rogers, Jeff “Skin” Wade, Kevin “KT” Turner, and Krystina Ray dive headfirst into the bizarre, the delicious, and the cinematic. The episode kicks off with a hilarious group reaction to a viral food photo: a misubi roll—a sweet soy-glazed hot dog nestled on a rice patty and wrapped in seaweed. The crew debates whether hot dogs and sushi should ever share a plate, with KT firmly declaring, “I'm comfortable choosing a hot dog or sushi and keeping them separate.”From culinary confusion to cinematic excitement, the gang shifts gears to discuss the upcoming Paul Thomas Anderson film One Battle After Another, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Sean Penn, Benicio Del Toro, Regina Hall, and Teyana Taylor. The buzz is real—Steven Spielberg himself called it “insane” and compared it to Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove. The hosts geek out over the trailer, the absurdist tone, and the massive $130 million budget, wondering if this could be Anderson's biggest box office hit yet.
Fresh shirt drop at new store: https://occultsymbolism.com/On today's episode of the Occult Symbolism and Pop Culture with Isaac Weishaupt podcast we are joined with a guest that's been doing some massively deep research into Shakespeare, Francis Bacon and the impending Scientific Technocracy- it's Robert Frederick! He's the host of The Hidden Life is Best podcast and Substack and today he explains to us why Shakespeare is so important that he has a Cult! We'll catch up with his inspiration for this topic and then we get into some major concepts on how Shakespeare was burying occult concepts into his works, the Shakespeare Hoax, connections to Stanley Kubrick and David Lynch (including a story about meeting Lynch!), and Shakespeare's impact on modern pop culture. We talk about Francis Bacon's connections to use propaganda for British Empire building and hidden Rosicrucian symbolism in Shakespeare, as well as the Scientism Gnostic religion of the Technocracy and how Peter Thiel is pushing us into the digital matrix for immortality!Supporters: I run an announcement from 1:40-6:20 about new shirts and such on my new store at https://occultsymbolism.com/; you are ad-free but this is more of an announcement than an ad, my apologies if it's annoying. My shirt guy has availability if you want to print some shirts: https://www.instagram.com/bryant_prints/Links:Follow Robert Frederick for MUCH more:The Hidden Life is Best podcast: https://thehiddenlifeisbest.comThe Hidden Life is Best Substack: https://substack.com/@robertfrederickThe Hidden Life is Best Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/u28774359Show sponsors- Get discounts while you support the show and do a little self improvement!*CopyMyCrypto.com/Isaac is where you can copy James McMahon's crypto holdings- listeners get access for just $1 WANT MORE?... Check out my UNCENSORED show with my wife, Breaking Social Norms: https://breakingsocialnorms.com/GRIFTER ALLEY- get bonus content AND go commercial free + other perks:*PATREON.com/IlluminatiWatcher : ad free, HUNDREDS of bonus shows, early access AND TWO OF MY BOOKS! (The Dark Path and Kubrick's Code); you can join the conversations with hundreds of other show supporters here: Patreon.com/IlluminatiWatcher (*Patreon is also NOW enabled to connect with Spotify! https://rb.gy/hcq13)*VIP SECTION: Due to the threat of censorship, I set up a Patreon-type system through MY OWN website! IIt's even setup the same: FREE ebooks, Kubrick's Code video! Sign up at: https://illuminatiwatcher.com/members-section/*APPLE PREMIUM: If you're on the Apple Podcasts app- just click the Premium button and you're in! NO more ads, Early Access, EVERY BONUS EPISODE More from Isaac- links and special offers:*BREAKING SOCIAL NORMS podcast, Index of EVERY episode (back to 2014), Signed paperbacks, shirts, & other merch, Substack, YouTube links, appearances & more: https://allmylinks.com/isaacw *STATEMENT: This show is full of Isaac's useless opinions and presented for entertainment purposes. Audio clips used in Fair Use and taken from YouTube videos.
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"You mean more to me than any scientific truth." For Episode 373, David and Brandon kick off their Hard Sci-Fi month with Andrei Tarkovsky's SOLARIS. Listen as they discuss Tarkovsky's career before the film, why he wanted to make the movie, what famous sci-fi film the movie was a reaction to, why the original novelist disliked the movie, and more! Also, don't forget to join our Patreon for more exclusive content: Opening - Gearing up for October and Borrowing Movies - (00:00:10) Intro to Hard Sci-Fi Movies (00:06:06) Intro to Solaris (00:15:50) How Solaris Got to Production (00:24:38) Favorite Scenes (00:37:00) On Set Life - (01:05:32) Aftermath: Release and Legacy (01:11:41) What Worked and What Didn't (01:19:41) Film Facts (01:25:57) Awards (01:26:39) Final Questions on the Movie (01:31:25) Wrapping Up the Episode (01:37:45) Contact Us: Facebook: @cinenation Instagram: @cinenationpodcast Twitter/X: @CineNationPod TikTok: @cinenation Letterboxd: CineNation Podcast
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Sub to the new YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@occultsymbolismOn today's episode of the Occult Symbolism and Pop Culture with Isaac Weishaupt podcast we have the August 2025 livestream show! Taylor Swift's Life of a Showgirl is here — and the occult symbolism is everywhere! From the fate of Ophelia to her fragmented alter-egos, witchy numerology, and bathtub confessions, we're breaking it all down. Then we dive into Labubu toys and their ties to Mesopotamian demon Pazuzu, plus comedian Matt Rife's shocking purchase of Ed & Lorraine Warren's haunted Conjuring house — just weeks after a paranormal researcher mysteriously died on tour with Annabelle the doll. Possessed pop culture? You decide here on this special live stream episode of Occult Symbolism and Pop Culture with ya boi Isaac Weishaupt!THE SHINING DECODED: I'll be posting up a Livestream on my new YouTube channel Thursday Sept 4th at 5pm EST for the FULL Shining documentary! Close to four hours long!! So join the chat- I'll be popping in periodically: https://youtu.be/Favb2v-1VlULinks:New online store is now up with the Mushroominati Watcher Coffee! https://occultsymbolism.comDon't miss the next livestream! Subscribe to my email newsletter at: https://illuminatiwatcher.com/3-books-5/Also sub to the new YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@occultsymbolismShow sponsors- Get discounts while you support the show and do a little self improvement!*CopyMyCrypto.com/Isaac is where you can copy James McMahon's crypto holdings- listeners get access for just $1WANT MORE?... Check out my UNCENSORED show with my wife, Breaking Social Norms: https://breakingsocialnorms.com/GRIFTER ALLEY- get bonus content AND go commercial free + other perks:*PATREON.com/IlluminatiWatcher : ad free, HUNDREDS of bonus shows, early access AND TWO OF MY BOOKS! (The Dark Path and Kubrick's Code); you can join the conversations with hundreds of other show supporters here: Patreon.com/IlluminatiWatcher (*Patreon is also NOW enabled to connect with Spotify! https://rb.gy/hcq13)*VIP SECTION: Due to the threat of censorship, I set up a Patreon-type system through MY OWN website! IIt's even setup the same: FREE ebooks, Kubrick's Code video! Sign up at: https://illuminatiwatcher.com/members-section/*APPLE PREMIUM: If you're on the Apple Podcasts app- just click the Premium button and you're in! NO more ads, Early Access, EVERY BONUS EPISODEMore from Isaac- links and special offers:*BREAKING SOCIAL NORMS podcast, Index of EVERY episode (back to 2014), Signed paperbacks, shirts, & other merch, Substack, YouTube links, appearances & more: https://allmylinks.com/isaacw*STATEMENT: This show is full of Isaac's useless opinions and presented for entertainment purposes. Audio clips used in Fair Use and taken from YouTube videos.
On today's episode of the Occult Symbolism and Pop Culture with Isaac Weishaupt podcast we have the August BONUS episode for supporter feeds! We dive deep into the occult symbolism of Danny Boyle's Sunshine, exploring how the film functions as a modern allegory for death, rebirth, and humanity's obsession with the solar deity. We unpack the story of Icarus as a metaphor for approaching the divine unprepared, and the recurring symbolism of the number seven as the union of spirit and matter. The crew's obsession with staring into the sun becomes a study in ego death and the alchemical process of Nigredo, while the Black Sun imagery and cube-shaped bomb reflect Saturnian forces, time, and entropy. We'll connect the hidden sun concept from Crowley and Kenneth Grant to Gnostic and Freemasonic ideas of oppositional polarities, and show how Pinbacker represents the ultimate adversarial initiator, testing humanity's capacity to transcend mortal limitations. Ultimately, Sunshine is a meditation on facing death, confronting the constraints of matter, and creating a new sun within the sun—a ritualistic and esoteric journey encoded in a sci-fi epic.FULL EPISODE NOW UP AD-FREE ON ALL SUPPORTER FEEDS! Free feed gets a preview!3 SUPPORTER FEED OPTIONS- get bonus content AND go commercial free + other perks:*PATREON.com/IlluminatiWatcher : ad free, HUNDREDS of bonus shows, early access AND TWO OF MY BOOKS! (The Dark Path and Kubrick's Code); you can join the conversations with hundreds of other show supporters*VIP SECTION: Due to the threat of censorship, I set up a Patreon-type system through MY OWN website! IIt's even setup the same: FREE ebooks, Kubrick's Code video! Sign up at: https://illuminatiwatcher.com/members-section/*APPLE PREMIUM: If you're on the Apple Podcasts app- just click the Premium button and you're in! NO more ads, Early Access, EVERY BONUS EPISODE
New online store is now up with the Mushroominati Watcher Coffee! https://occultsymbolism.comOn today's episode of the Occult Symbolism and Pop Culture with Isaac Weishaupt podcast we wrap our decoding of Kubrick's The Shining! In Part 3 we'll decode the entire film: Stephen King, America, Illuminati bloodlines, Eyes Wide Shut elitist parties, Epstein connections, Skull and Bones, Key Club, occult symbolism, portals, Cut-Up Method, labyrinths, MKULTRA, Nazis, NASA and the fake moon landing, Project MONARCH, pedo incest theory, Jack's shadow, blood sacrifices to the gods, 42's kabbalah meaning of God, Devouring Father theory, Crowley's ritual, blood for crossing the Abyss and more!Links:The Shining Decoded Pt 1: Conspiracies, Illuminati, MKULTRA & Project Monarch! https://illuminatiwatcher.com/the-shining-decoded-pt-1-conspiracies-illuminati-mkultra-project-monarch/The Shining Decoded Pt 2: Room 237, Grady Twins, Labyrinths & Epstein Parties! https://illuminatiwatcher.com/the-shining-decoded-pt-2-room-237-grady-twins-labyrinths-epstein-parties/The Shining Decoded Pt 3: Kubrick's Code—Illuminati Bloodlines, MKULTRA, Eyes Wide Shut, Portals, Saturn & the Moon Landing Lie https://illuminatiwatcher.com/the-shining-decoded-pt-3-kubricks-code-illuminati-bloodlines-mkultra-eyes-wide-shut-portals-saturn-the-moon-landing-lie/Kenneth Grant: Atomic Bombs, UFO Portals, Alien Gateways & Twin Peaks! TP44 https://illuminatiwatcher.com/kenneth-grant-atomic-bombs-ufo-portals-alien-gateways-twin-peaks-tp44/Portals Pt 1: Magick Gateways, Jungian Symbols & Pop Culture Portals EXPLAINED! https://illuminatiwatcher.com/portals-pt-1-magick-gateways-jungian-symbols-pop-culture-portals-explained/Fake Moon Landing: Occult Symbolism of NASA and the Apollo Mission https://www.illuminatiwatcher.com/fake-moon-landing-occult-symbolism-of-nasa-and-the-apollo-missionKubrick's Code book (and 2+ hour video): https://illuminatiwatcher.com/kubricks-code-analysis-of-2001-a-clockwork-orange-the-shining-and-eyes-wide-shut/Eyes Wide Shut: Decoding Hidden Symbolism of Stanley Kubrick- Episode Index https://www.illuminatiwatcher.com/eyes-wide-shut-decoding-hidden-symbolism-of-stanley-kubrick-episode-indexShow sponsors- Get discounts while you support the show and do a little self improvement!*CopyMyCrypto.com/Isaac is where you can copy James McMahon's crypto holdings- listeners get access for just $1 WANT MORE?... Check out my UNCENSORED show with my wife, Breaking Social Norms: https://breakingsocialnorms.com/GRIFTER ALLEY- get bonus content AND go commercial free + other perks:*PATREON.com/IlluminatiWatcher : ad free, HUNDREDS of bonus shows, early access AND TWO OF MY BOOKS! (The Dark Path and Kubrick's Code); you can join the conversations with hundreds of other show supporters here: Patreon.com/IlluminatiWatcher (*Patreon is also NOW enabled to connect with Spotify! https://rb.gy/hcq13)*VIP SECTION: Due to the threat of censorship, I set up a Patreon-type system through MY OWN website! IIt's even setup the same: FREE ebooks, Kubrick's Code video! Sign up at: https://illuminatiwatcher.com/members-section/*APPLE PREMIUM: If you're on the Apple Podcasts app- just click the Premium button and you're in! NO more ads, Early Access, EVERY BONUS EPISODE More from Isaac- links and special offers:*BREAKING SOCIAL NORMS podcast, Index of EVERY episode (back to 2014), Signed paperbacks, shirts, & other merch, Substack, YouTube links, appearances & more: https://allmylinks.com/isaacw *STATEMENT: This show is full of Isaac's useless opinions and presented for entertainment purposes. Audio clips used in Fair Use and taken from YouTube videos.
On today's episode of the Occult Symbolism and Pop Culture with Isaac Weishaupt podcast we continue our decoding of Kubrick's The Shining! In Part 2 we'll walk through the second half of the film- we'll talk about symbolism found in the German Adler typewriter, eagles, phoenix, labyrinths, Heretic, Grady twins, Room 217 vs Room 237, Faustian bargains, Kabbalah bathtubs, Eraserhead, who is Delbert Grady, 42, REDRUM, Horace Derwent's Epstein parties, Roger the Dogman, Bears and Baphomet! Links:The Shining Decoded Pt 1: Conspiracies, Illuminati, MKULTRA & Project Monarch! https://illuminatiwatcher.com/the-shining-decoded-pt-1-conspiracies-illuminati-mkultra-project-monarch/The Shining Decoded Pt 2: Room 237, Grady Twins, Labyrinths & Epstein Parties! The Shining Decoded Pt 3: Kubrick's Code—Illuminati Bloodlines, MKULTRA, Eyes Wide Shut, Portals, Saturn & the Moon Landing Lie COMING SOONKubrick's Code book (and 2+ hour video): https://illuminatiwatcher.com/kubricks-code-analysis-of-2001-a-clockwork-orange-the-shining-and-eyes-wide-shut/Eyes Wide Shut: Decoding Hidden Symbolism of Stanley Kubrick- Episode Index https://www.illuminatiwatcher.com/eyes-wide-shut-decoding-hidden-symbolism-of-stanley-kubrick-episode-indexNew online store is now up with the Mushroominati Watcher Coffee! https://occultsymbolism.comShow sponsors- Get discounts while you support the show and do a little self improvement!*CopyMyCrypto.com/Isaac is where you can copy James McMahon's crypto holdings- listeners get access for just $1 WANT MORE?... Check out my UNCENSORED show with my wife, Breaking Social Norms: https://breakingsocialnorms.com/GRIFTER ALLEY- get bonus content AND go commercial free + other perks:*PATREON.com/IlluminatiWatcher : ad free, HUNDREDS of bonus shows, early access AND TWO OF MY BOOKS! (The Dark Path and Kubrick's Code); you can join the conversations with hundreds of other show supporters here: Patreon.com/IlluminatiWatcher (*Patreon is also NOW enabled to connect with Spotify! https://rb.gy/hcq13)*VIP SECTION: Due to the threat of censorship, I set up a Patreon-type system through MY OWN website! IIt's even setup the same: FREE ebooks, Kubrick's Code video! Sign up at: https://illuminatiwatcher.com/members-section/*APPLE PREMIUM: If you're on the Apple Podcasts app- just click the Premium button and you're in! NO more ads, Early Access, EVERY BONUS EPISODE More from Isaac- links and special offers:*BREAKING SOCIAL NORMS podcast, Index of EVERY episode (back to 2014), Signed paperbacks, shirts, & other merch, Substack, YouTube links, appearances & more: https://allmylinks.com/isaacw *STATEMENT: This show is full of Isaac's useless opinions and presented for entertainment purposes. Audio clips used in Fair Use and taken from YouTube videos.
With Zach Cregger's WEAPONS getting a review this week, we dig deep into the archive for a 2012 Sacred Cow review of THE SHINING, a film Cregger frequently mentions as a major influence. Michael Phillips joins Adam and Josh for the conversation about Kubrick's horror classic, which turns 45 this year. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices