Eyes Wide Shut

8/31/2022

**It doesn't matter if it's Stanley Kubrick's best or worst. It's a movie that makes you think.** Stanley Kubrick is one of those filmmakers who didn't make a lot of films. Over the course of his forty-year career, he only made thirteen feature films. Very little... However, if we look closely, almost all of them are familiar and immediately entered the pantheon of cinema. They are not perfect films, nor was Kubrick perfect no matter how methodical he was, and there are films of his that are unpalatable (I've already written that in some of them). But each of them, for its reasons, is its own, a very different work. In this film, he makes a case study around desire, sexuality and how we, individually or as a couple, deal with it. The script follows a doctor and his wife. An apparentl

6/19/2026

Eyes Wide Shut (1999) – Kubrick’s final masterpiece. A hypnotic journey into the hidden world of elite secret power. Kubrick subtly exposes the terrifying reality of secret societies, their links to sex slavery and pedophilia, not through lectures or obvious dialogues, but through chilling atmosphere, ritual precision, and subtle images. The danger is woven into every frame, visible only to those paying close attention. Most normies see an “erotic thriller”. The intelligent feel the danger. Kubrick films orgies with the most beautiful naked bodies imaginable and masterfully makes them completely asexual. The nudity is clinical, geometric, drained of heat, a cold ceremony of raw, aseptic bodies rather than erotica. Sex becomes ritualized, commodified, and instinctively alienating. It’

7/3/2026

Physician to the well-heeled "Bill" (Tom Cruise) and his wife "Alice" (Nicole Kidman) are enjoying the Christmas season by attending the usual whilrl of social engagements hosted by his wealthier clients. Tonight they are heading to a swanky affair as guests of "Victor" (Sydney Pollack) but instead of just going through the polite motions of an evening, the doctor finds himself rolling up his sleeves and so leaving his wife to explore a little more of the party than she might otherwise have experienced. When they get home, she is distinctly unsettled and they embark on a conversation that shines quite a light on the somewhat pedestrian nature of their sex lives. Both have their fantasies and to be honest, they rarely include each other. Maybe an open marriage is a solution? Well they certa