*****SHRUB-MAZE OF SPOILERS AHEAD!!***** The Shining (1980). Full disclosure: the late, great director Stanley Kubrick made one of my favorite movies of all time (“2001: A Space Odyssey”), though I’m not as in love with his 1980 adaptation of Stephen King’s “The Shining.” For clarity, I don’t hate it, either; in fact, I much admire…
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1989: The Summer of “Batman”…
Bat-Then. It was 30 years ago, and a very different time. At my then-age of 22 I felt the carefree hubris of youth. I legally rode a motorcycle without a helmet (because I was an idiot), I was renting a single room from some friends of mine, and I went to the movies a lot…