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Filmspotting

The Shining (Archive)

Filmspotting

Adam Kempenaar & Josh Larsen

Film Reviews, Film History, Tv & Film

4.64.2K Ratings

🗓️ 13 August 2025

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

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

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0:00.0

What kind of a show are you guys putting on here today?

0:06.5

You're not interested in art?

0:07.6

No.

0:08.1

Now look, we're going to do this thing.

0:09.4

We're going to have a conversation.

0:12.7

Hey, film spotters.

0:14.0

We're digging deep into the archive.

0:16.3

Going way back to episode 419, Michael Phillips joined us for a sacred cow conversation about Stanley Kubrick's The Shining, which is 45 this year.

0:28.5

And we thought it was only fitting because we're talking about Zach Crager's weapons, a huge influence on Crager as a filmmaker. If you Google his name, Josh, you will find Kubrick

0:41.2

in The Shining mentioned almost in any conversation that this filmmaker has. And of course,

0:46.0

when you watch the film, you know that that time 217 comes up again and again. And I thought,

0:54.0

well, is that the, is that the room and the shining?

0:57.3

There has to be some relevance, right?

0:59.1

And then I remembered, wait, no.

1:01.6

Maybe it's just random because the room is 237.

1:06.3

Well, I did a little bit more digging.

1:09.4

217 is the book, the Stephen King book, The Shining.

1:13.4

Turns out 217 is the room there.

1:16.6

Craig are trying to prove he smarter than all of us with that one.

1:19.9

Yeah, we didn't play a ton of spot the reference in our review of weapons.

1:24.3

We named checked a movie or two, but definitely the shining is in that mix.

1:28.3

And yeah, never a bad time to talk about the shining.

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