In ‘Bad Things,’ a Filmmaker Puts a Queer Spin on ‘The Shining’
Stewart Thorndike sets her gory tale at a hotel reminiscent of the Overlook. The director says her movies are “mirroring” male stories she grew up loving.
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‘Kubrick by Kubrick’ Review: Stanley Plays Himself
A primer on the filmmaker’s career and interests won’t offer much that will surprise even mild obsessives, but it does pierce some of the mystique.
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Why A.I. Movies Couldn’t Prepare Us for Bing’s Chatbot
Instead of the chilling rationality of HAL in “2001: A Space Odyssey,” we get the messy awfulness of Microsoft’s Sydney. Call it the banality of sentience.