A lot of people slept on Doctor Sleep, and without any context, that sounds like a good thing. But it’s not. The sequel to The Shining expanded the Stephen King universe beyond what Stanley Kubrick ...

Horror author Stephen King directly confronted the patterns of alcoholism and violence and how to get on the road to recovery in his 2013 follow-up to his classic novel The Shining, Doctor Sleep. It ...

39 years after the release of The Shining in 1980, a sequel film starring Ewan McGregor hit theaters. Now, six years after its own theatrical run, Doctor Sleep is heading to Netflix. Netflix's ...

Mike Flanagan's 2019 legacy-quel deserves to properly shine. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The fact that the finished product ...

Nick is a writer who works and lives in Los Angeles, California. He has previously written for Indiewire, The Playlist, and Little White Lies. On the definitive list of movies that absolutely do not ...

The notion of making a sequel to The Shining, one of the most important horror movies ever made, would strike many as foolhardy, to say the least. Doctor Sleep, Mike Flanagan’s 2019 attempt to do ...

It: Welcome to Derry makes one thing clear: Dick Halloran is way more important than his humble role in The Shining suggests. While the Overlook Hotel’s head chef may serve as a violent punchline in ...