The Gold Box spotlight deal of the day over at Amazon today is The Stanley Kubrick Collection on DVD for only $30.99 (that’s 59% off the list price of $74.98) and Blu-ray for only $60.99 (that’s 59% off the list price of $148.95).

Note, this deal is valid only for today, Friday, March 16, 2012, until 11:59pm PST while supplies last.

Both box sets come with 10 discs with 9 films from director Stanley Kubrick: Spartacus, Lolita, Dr. Strangelove, 2001: A Space Odyssey, A Clockwork Orange, Barry Lyndon, The Shining, Full Metal Jacket, and Eyes Wide Shut.

The Gold Box spotlight deal of the day over at Amazon today is The Stanley Kubrick Collection on DVD for only $31.49 (that’s 58% off the list price of $74.98) and Blu-ray for only $62.99 (that’s 58% off the list price of $148.99).

Note, this deal is valid only for today, Thursday, November 10, 2011, until 11:59pm PST while supplies last.

Both box sets comes with 10 discs with 9 films from director Stanley Kubrick: Spartacus, Lolita, Dr. Strangelove, 2001: A Space Odyssey, A Clockwork Orange, Barry Lyndon, The Shining, Full Metal Jacket, and Eyes Wide Shut.

Believe it or not, there was a time when The Beatles wanted to star in a live-action adaptation of Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings, with Stanley Kubrick to direct. The cast would be Paul McCartney as Frodo Baggins, Ringo Starr as Sam Gamgee (both as hobbits), George Harrison as the wizard Gandalf, and John Lennon as the creature Gollum, but either Kubrick wasn’t on board for it or Tolkien killed it (it’s unclear which).

Obviously, that would have been an interesting project that unfortunately we’ll never get to see. But artist Shane Parker has decided to give us his depiction of what the Beatles in the LoTR could have looked like with his Abbey Road-LoTR mash-up “Moria Road.”

If you’re a true movie fan, then you without doubt love at least one of the many great works of the late Stanley Kubrick, if not most of them.

With titles like A Clockwork Orange, Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, Spartacus, 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Shining, and Full Metal Jacket to his name, Kubrick is a true god of cinema, worthy of endless discussion.

All of that said, popular movie podcast and good friends to Geeks of Doom, Movie Geeks United! (featuring our own Jerry Dennis) is currently in the midst of an epic 8-part series celebrating the life and works of this legendary filmmaker — a tribute to a man whose name will live on for eternity that no fan should miss.