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February 11, 2022 by Simon Sweetman

Movies of My Life # 25: The Shining

The Shining is a film I can watch again and again. A perfect horror film. Existential fear right there. Amazing performances, brilliantly filmed – that feeling of unease that trickles in with Wendy Carlos’ amazing music and the sound-design just so. Just a brilliant film. And a fine example of Stanley Kubrick’s vision too. Many […]
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October 13, 2021 by Simon Sweetman

My Top 10 Stephen King Movies

Here are my favourite Stephen King film adaptations from 10-1, number one of course being the best. 10. Needful Things (1993) – I’m picking this one because I don’t often see it getting talked up. And because I loved the book. It was one of my absolute favourites. The film isn’t a classic, but it […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Carrie, Christine, Cujo, Film, Films, Gerald's Game, It, List, Misery, Movies, My Top 10 Stephen King Movies, Needful Things, Stand By Me, Stephen King, Stephen King Movies, The Dead Zone, The Mist, The Shawshank Redemption, The Shining, Top 10, Want more? Check out my Substack You can also support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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March 22, 2021 by Simon Sweetman

Amanda Sewell: Wendy Carlos – A Biography

Wendy Carlos: A Biography Amanda Sewell Oxford University Press Wendy Carlos is one of the great pioneers of electronic music, champion of the Moog, creator of mesmerising soundtracks (A Clockwork Orange, The Shining, TRON) and as well as recontextualising classical music to make one of the genre’s all-time best sellers, it is likely she also […]
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September 18, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

The Newton Brothers: Dr Sleep [OST]

The Newton Brothers Dr Sleep (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) Watertower Music I’ve yet to read the book, but I probably will since I’m gearing up to dive deep back into the world of Stephen King – but I saw the film and liked the film, particularly given it had a lot to live up to, […]
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July 28, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Poem: A Poem About The Shining

I watched The Shining again. Perfect horror film. Existential fear right there. Amazing performances, brilliantly filmed – that feeling of unease that trickles in with Wendy Carlos’ amazing music and the sound-design just so. And I’m ordering a book to read about the film and noticing my copy of Stephen King’s novel up there on […]
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January 12, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Short Story: The Shining

So much could have gone wrong…that night I was hiding in the wheelie-bin. It had been emptied, scrubbed clean, and we thought it a funny joke for me to hide in there with an axe… Okay, back-up. You see, one summer we had an aunty and uncle staying with us, they’d just moved back to […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Horror Films, Short Story, Short Story: The Shining, The Shining ·

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March 17, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

Five Films That Stay With Me: Philip Matthews

Philip Matthews is a senior reporter with Fairfax Media in Christchurch and is a former film reviewer with the NZ Listener. He blogs about films at Second Sight and is on Twitter as @secondzeit. Here are Five Films That Have Stayed With Him… 1 – Solaris: This is such an intensely sorrowful film. If I was […]
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January 10, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

Five Films That Stay With Me: Elaine Shute

Elaine Shute is a volunteer programmer at WERU-FM, a community radio station in Downeast Maine. Her show ‘On the Wing’, a three-hour eclectic mix of music, airs on alternating Mondays, and can be streamed on demand. Here are five films that have stayed with her….  1 – Breaking Away:  I love a coming-of-age story, and – along […]
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November 30, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

Five Films That Stay With Me: Andrew Paul Wood

Andrew Paul Wood is a Christchurch-based writer, cultural critic and freelance curator. He writes for The Press, the Listener, Urbis, Architecture New Zealand, and a host of others. Recent work includes a translation into English of the New Zealand poems of German-Jewish poet Karl Wolfskehl, Under New Stars: Poems from the New Zealand Exile (Holloway, 2012, edited by Friedrich Voit), and a […]
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July 16, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

Gig Review: Ryan Adams (July 16, Wgtn)

Ryan Adams Opera House Thursday, July 16 Ryan Adams is no stranger to New Zealand but this is his first visit to Wellington in a half decade and just his second show in the capital. The last was with The Cardinals, this time he has a new band in tow, The Shining. They’re like a […]
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December 9, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

Room 237: DVD

Room 237 Director: Rodney Ascher IFC Films/IFC Midnight Room 237 – and fans of The Shining will spot that reference right away – pulls together a handful of disparate conspiracy theories around Kubrick’s film of the Stephen King novel. The Shining, one of Kubrick’s great films – panned on release, and then a video classic […]
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