Great Film overall

It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny

Stanley Kubrick's monumental classic horror masterpiece is one of the great motion pictures of it's genre, which features a vivid star performance by Jack Nicholson which is unforgettable as the dangerously unbalanced writer who takes the job as winter caretaker of a huge hotel in the Colorado mountains which is inhabited by darl maleviolent forces which possesse him to murder his family. Excellent supporting performances by Shirley Duvall, Danny Lloyd and the late great Scatman Crothers. An extraordinary film in every sense of the word.

The Shining is a masterful piece of cinema. And when you find out it was directed by Stanley Kubrick, you cannot be surprised. I do think this is a good way to get into Kubrick films and this should be the first one you watch. It really gives you a sense of his style. The first thing I'll write about is the look of the film. This film looks marvellous. The hotel's interior is iconic and it's exterior is not like the Bates' Motel from Psycho but does look like a genuine hotel, all part of the illusion. The cinematography is excellent and the directing is perfect. The acting is superb. Jack Nicholson gives a performance that conveys his gradual fall into insanity. Shelley Duvall presents a great image of a terrified wife, at the expense of Kubrick's notorious treatment of her. Scatman Crothers and Danny Lloyd, the "Shiners" of this film are also completely believable. The overall story is brilliant. And what I love about it is that every time I watch it, it gets better. It's not one of the tricky Kubrick films which aren't great first time around but are masterpieces ie 2001: A Space Odyssey. The first time you watch it you may feel some parts were okay. But second time around, knowing what happens makes it all the better. There's so many details and one of the best parts of the film is the questions it asks you and how you think of it after. It provokes a lot of thought and is famous for the theories surrounding it. Overall I'd say that this is debatably, Kubrick's best and although it may not scare like it did in 1980, it does have the occasional haunting moment (and definitely scares when thinking about it after), it entertains thoroughly. An easy decision for one of the few movies I consider flawless: 10/10.

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Movie Review: "The Shining" (1980)A novel adaptation as it should be. Mastermind director Stanley Kubrick (1928-1999) takes Stephen King's late 1970s supreme horror novel mingling it into the arthouse Hollywood corner with leading star actor Jack Nicholson giving a picture-carrying stand-out Performance for the ages by terrorizing his film family neighborhood, when actress Shelley Duvall seemingly fights for your screening life in particular major precision shots, when not one scene fails to amaze by a lingering terrifying horror in glittering eyes of constant confrontation without missing out in moments of goose-bumping tenderness between perfectly directed child actor Danny Lloyd and fulltime comdian / musician Scatman Crothers (1910-1986).Cinemajesty Entertainments LLC 2018