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Stanley Kubrick • The Shining

  “All work & no play makes Jack a dull boy.” The Shining is known as “a masterpiece of modern horror” & I couldn’t describe it better. Based on a novel by Stephen King, it’s a story about Jack Torrance {a writer & recovering alcoholic played by the always amazing Jack Nicholson}, who takes a job as an off-season caretaker at an isolated hotel called the Overlook Hotel. I haven’t read the novel, that is slightly different from the movie, but I think Kubrick made a brilliant  ...

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Stanley Kubrick • A Clockwork Orange

  I love A Clockwork Orange. I love dystopia & I love the aesthetics in this movie; in fact the whole scenario is the main reason I love it so much. My first contact with this world was with an old A Clockwork Orange book {written by Anthony Burgess, 1962} when I was 15; yes, the book was my first reference for this story. I tried really hard to read it without the help of the Nadsat dictionary, but it was impossible – if you have seen/read it you know what I’m talking about. In  ...

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