Posts Tagged The Shining
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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 […]Archive
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 […]Archive
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 […]Archive
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 […]Archive
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 […]Archive
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 […]Archive
December 9, 2014 by Simon Sweetman