Wicked Little Letters to The Shining: the seven best films to watch on TV this week
Shelley Duvall – a life in pictures
Shelley Duvall, star of The Shining and Annie Hall, dies aged 75
Ranked
Shelley Duvall: her 20 greatest films
June 2023
From The Shining to Carrie: our writers pick their favourite Stephen King movies
With the writer’s latest big screen adaptation The Boogeyman opening in theatres, we select the best interpretations of his work
April 2023
Ranked
Jack Nicholson’s 20 best performances – ranked!
As the legendary actor turns 86 on Saturday, we rate decades of his most celebrated roles – from grinning wrong ’uns to lovable rakes and crazed murderers
December 2022
‘I got a bit drunk with the twins’: Toy Story 3’s Lee Unkrich on his obsession with The Shining
‘The police came because of the sea of red gore’: unseen photos from the set of The Shining
October 2022
‘I squeamishly refuse to rewatch’: Guardian writers on their scariest movie endings
From the final moments of Don’t Look Now to Midsommar to Men, critics pick the endnotes that caused the biggest nightmares
August 2022
Leon Vitali obituary
British actor who went on to work for the film director Stanley Kubrick as an assistant, casting adviser and ‘sort of gatekeeper’
October 2020
Ranked
Scariest ghosts in cinema – ranked!
From unexplained bumps and noises in the night to creepy children and things without faces, here are some of film’s most terrifying spectres
May 2020
Lockdown culture
House of horrors: how cinema turned a safe space into a trap
The Shining at 40: will we ever fully understand what it all means?
March 2020
Lockdown culture
From Panic Room to Cabin Fever: films about isolation, to watch in self-isolation
Our selection of must-see movies, whether you go it alone or hunker down with family or friends
The classic film I've never seen
I've never seen … The Shining
In the first of a new series, one of our writers finally catches up with the cinematic classic they’ve somehow missed. Today, Ammar Kalia watches Kubrick’s masterpiece
Film blog
From Fight Club to Brief Encounter: how self-isolation would change classic films
It’s now difficult to watch movies without worrying about the two-metre rule – here are the retrospective plot changes required to mean old movies pass muster
October 2019
Doctor Sleep review – sedate Shining sequel battles a new evil … boredom
Steve Rose on film
Doctor Sleep, It, The Dark Tower: is there too much Stephen King on screen?
July 2019
Extended scares: in defense of the two-hour-plus horror movie
In Midsommar, Ari Aster’s divisive follow-up to Hereditary, scares are drawn out for 140 minutes, allowing for a more effectively nightmarish experience
April 2019
Stanley Kubrick: The Exhibition review – catnip for mid-century modern fans
An exhibition of the enigmatic film-maker’s paraphernalia is rich in detail but low on magic
