Reservoir Dogs (1992)

Reservoir Dogs (1992) directed by Quentin Tarantino, is an exceptional film. The storyline follows a group of experienced criminals under pseudonyms, who have been selected to rob a jewelry store for a shipment of diamonds. The robbery goes wrong, and the men all flee the scene, slowly meeting up at their planned safehouse. As they begin to discuss the events of the failed robbery, they begin to realize that there is a mole in the group, and begin to accuse and turn on each other as the men try to figure out who it is. 

This leads to a four-way Mexican standoff, and one of the men getting away with all the diamonds. Reservoir Dogs was Quentin Tarantino's first feature length film, but he says it was his favorite film to make to this day. The storytelling plays with time beautifully, creating backstories for each character mid-film, jumping between before and after the robbery as each character disproves that he is the cop. 

Each man establishes and breaks bonds with the others, giving the audience a sense of unease and confusion as to who to trust. While the film's main storyline is about the jewelry robbery, the cutaways through time offer deep insight into each criminal's personal life, and the life of the police officer as well. This helps to form an emotional bond between the audience and the characters. Visually, the film is magnificent as well. Tarantino's attention to detail pays off greatly. 

From the bright red blood contrasting with the subtly green painted walls, to the minor character aspects that bring them out of the film and into real life, Reservoir Dogs creates a major connection with audiences, making them feel bad for this group of violent, armed robbers. In the final scene, one man reveals to his one friend and supporter in the group of criminals that he is the undercover cop with his dying breaths. As the police finally raid the building and catch the two men among the bodies of their partners, the undercover cop’s friend shoots him in the head as he holds him in his lap, creating a possible allusion to Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck’s classic novel. 

From this perspective, it is not a killing out of anger, but rather a mercy killing for his dying friend. This can be shown by the fit of rage that the dying cop’s friend has, followed by his calming down and acceptance of both of their hopeless situations.

Audrey Kathleen Ruston

Audrey Hepburn was born May 4th, 1929, she was elegant and was known for being America's Sweetheart. Audrey would run into problems throughout her childhood in Holland with the Nazi's. As a small child, she was malnourished due to the food supply cut off from the Nazis. She would attend a ballet school and put on some recitals. Later on, she would find herself modeling and becoming an actress. Although her career was not flourishing in Europe so she moved to America.


 


In America, she instantly became famous winning an Oscar award for her first American film. She would continue to make movie after movie and receive award after award. The movie 'Breakfast at Tiffany's' was meant to be Marilyn Monroes part but the studio wanted Audrey Hepburn. These two ladies are complete opposites; one a sex symbol and one so elegant. Although each would have their fair share of JFK, and believe it or not the year after the infamous Happy Birthday performance from Marilyn Monroe, Audrey Hepburn would sing Happy Birthday to JFK.


                   

Audrey Hepburn Facts:

Audrey was deathly afraid of water and had a crew on standby for her scene in "Two for the Road" when she would get pushed into a pool.

She worked for the Dutch Resistance while the Nazis invaded, keeping messages in her ballet slippers.

Audrey Hepburn volunteered when she was 16 years old to be a nurse during World War II.

She and her family would eat ground up tulip bulbs and bread made out of grass to survive on during the Nazi invasion, this leads to her having acute anemia and other health problems throughout her life.

Hepburn had look self-confidence, she could not understand why everyone thought she was beautiful. To her she had a big nose and big feet, she was too skinny and didn't have large enough breasts.

Audrey had a pet deer named Mr.Famous. She originally brought him home so he could learn to follow her around on set but decided to keep him.

Hepburn was an avid smoker for her elegance, smoking a whopping three packs a day.


                   

She may not have been the infamous Marilyn Monroe but she was the opposite sweet, and elegant.

UNICEF was a big deal to Hepburn, for the rest of her life after retirement giving her time and funds.

A Quiet Place (2018)

A Quiet Place (2018) directed by John Krasinski, is a deeply terrifying horror movie. The film follows a family in a post-apocalyptic world filled with vicious creatures that hunt their prey based on sound. The family has learned to remain absolutely silent while going about daily life and uses American Sign Language to communicate.

Don't Breathe (2016) directed by Fede Álvarez, also follows a group of people being hunted by the sounds they make, but A Quiet Place is significantly more successful in their use of this concept. The family in A Quiet Place has learned to adapt and survive in this ruthless world, whereas the group of teens in Don't Breathe merely react to being thrown into a high-risk situation. Millicent Simmonds plays a teenage girl who feels responsible for her brother's death, and is deaf in real life. This allows her performance to feel much more real and brings out the intensity and emotion of the film even more than a non-disabled actor could.

The film's use of silence magnifies the noises that the characters do make, creating a psychological thrill on levels that only a select few movies are able to reach. The story is strengthened further by the relatively small amount of time the monsters are actually on screen. The threat that the creatures pose is established early in the film, through the death of the family's youngest member. However, the vast majority of the film focuses on the family's struggles to remain silent, and their desperate attempts to fix any mistakes they make before they are hunted down.  While the threat of the monsters is always present, the monsters themselves are usually not. This adds an interesting dynamic to the film, allowing the audience to deeply connect with the characters by placing the focus on them as individuals and their different experiences in the same world. The audience gains insight into the internal conflicts each family member has, in addition to the external conflict in the world. Simmonds' character struggles more with the guilt of her brother's death than the monsters themselves, and longs for her father's love.

 It is not until the father's gruesome end, and the end of the film, that Simmonds' character realizes she has had his love all along, and he does not blame her for her mistakes. This conflict is much larger than the threat of death, and is a common feeling that children have, especially in their teenage years. A Quiet Place has a very well developed storyline that has many distinct layers.

10 Cloverfield Lane

10 Cloverfield Lane

Directed by Dan Trachtenberg in 2016, 10 Cloverfield Lane is a very interesting and entertaining horror/suspense film. It all starts with the main character, Michelle driving down the highway. Michelle looks in her rear-view mirror and sees a truck coming up behind her very quickly. The truck attempts to swerve out of the way, but hits the back of her car, causing her to spin uncontrollably and ultimately wreck. She blacks out and wakes up with her arms chained to a bed frame in a very small room. The man who locked her in this room, Howard, tries to explain to her that he is just trying to help, but Michelle is obviously very scared and tries to escape.

Howard is eventually able to calm Michelle down and explains that he was the man who hit her with his truck. He told her that he was in such a hurry because the invasion was about to take place. Michelle had no idea what he was talking about, but he explains that a poisonous gas would be sent down and then aliens would take over once all humans were wiped out. He told her that he saved her life. Still skeptical, Michelle meets Elliot, Howard's neighbor who is also hiding out in Howard's bunker. The three end up getting along for a little while once Michelle and Elliot both see what happened to a woman who got killed by the gas. 

All is well up until there is a leak coming from the roof. Howard fears that some gas might slip through the vents if the leak is not repaired, but he cannot fit into the air vent. Michelle is the only one capable to repair the leak, but when she enters the vent she sees etchings on the roof such as "help me". She then finds a box filled with pictures of a young girl wearing the same shirt that Howard has given to her. Howard denied having any children at first, so Michelle knows something is up. She questions Howard and it results in him freaking out. Elliot and Michelle plot to kill Howard because he shows how psychotic he is, but Howard foils their plans and kills Elliot. Michelle and Howard end up fighting to the death and Michelle ultimately is able to kill Howard at the cost of burning down the bunker. She makes a hazmat suit out of shower curtains and is able to go outside. She escapes the surrounding aliens and finds a car. The film ends the same way it started, with Michelle driving down the highway, and then the film cuts to a blank screen that reads, "to be continued."

Norma Jeane Mortenson

Norma Jeane Mortenson also was known as Marilyn Monroe has been an icon for many years, the seductive voice, blonde locks, voluptuous figure, and the beauty mark. There are many other things Marilyn Monroe had going for her than just her looks. A young bride, Marilyn would get married for the first time in 1942 at the age of 16. Unfourtanetly, her marriage would only last four years followed by two more failed marriages.



                         



Marilyn had a rough life growing up; her mom was mentally and financially unstable. Monroe would end up in foster care until her mother got her life together and got her back at age 7. Marilyn's mom would then be diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia and would spend time in mental facilities. While in foster care Monroe had claimed to be sexually abused. She lived with her mothers best friend, Grace, before being placed into foster care once again and returning to the best friends care. This stay did not last long, Monroe went to stay with Grace's aunt but due to her age could not make it a long-term solution, and once again Marilyn would return to Graces home. Grace and her husband decided they were going to move and Monroe could not be apart of this so she would either have to go back to foster care or get married.



               



While married for the first time, her husband was in the army, and she modeled. After her marriage, she attended literature classes at UCLA downtown, and eventually Monroe would get signed with 20th century fox. Marilyn lost contracts for movies because she would show up late to set due to her drug problems. Monroe may have seemed to have a perfect life and be a big idol, but she had her problems. She did not own her own house until the last year of her life. She only lived for 36 short years before dying from a drug overdose on August 5, 1962.



                    



"Chanel No 5" -Marilyn Monroe

Monroe Facts:

Truman Capote had Marilyn Monroe in his mind as the lead role of Breakfast at Tiffany's, but her coach told her that is a role she would not usually play so she turned the opportunity down. Capote said he was not thrilled that Audrey Hepburn had been cast as the lead.

Monroe was not known to be a good cook. She was once asked to wash lettuce for a salad and washed each leaf with a brillo pad.

Monroe was a bookworm, after her death over 400 novels were discovered in her home.

The dress Marilyn wore to sing 'Happy Birthday' to JFK in was sold for over a million dollars, and in 2011 her dress from 'Seven Year Itch' sold for 4.6 million.

Her marriage to DiMaggio only lasted eight months and the reason for the end of their marriage was Monroes infamous subway scene. DiMaggio insisted that she revealed too much of her body.

DiMaggio remained friends with Monroe and was even close to remarrying her but fell short due to her death. He arranged the funeral and allowed very few people from Hollywood to attend, and for 20 years after her death, he had roses delivered to her grave twice a week.

DiMaggio owned the crypt above Monroes but sold it when they divorced. The buyer requested he wanted to be buried upside down so that way he would always be face down on top of Marilyn. In 2009, his wife insisted this not come true so they listed the crypt on eBay and brought in 4.6 million, unfortunately, the buyer backed out of the sale. Hugh Hefner bought the plot next to her because he felt a connection, she was on the cover of the first Playboy magazine but never met him.

Straight Outta Compton (2015)

The highly anticipated biopic telling the tale of one of the pioneer hip hop groups N.W.A certainly lived up to the billing. F. Gary Gray's 2015 film Straight Outta Compton told the story of five black individuals from Compton, California and how they were the first to truly make completely uncensored explicit musical content.

Their message was simple and direct: their challenging lifestyle in the streets of California in the late 1980's isn't documented nearly enough. Through their music, in the most genuine way possible they tell the story of their brutal upbringing.

N.W.A, who quickly got the title of "The World's Most Dangerous Group" was made up of all time great producer Dr. Dre, the MC headliner responsible for the lyrical content of the group Ice Cube, another MC headliner and was dubbed the groups "character" the late Eazy E, underrated rapper MC Ren, and back line DJ, Yella.

Many people feared an inaccurate depiction of this flavorful and unique group when news of the movie as a biopic was first released. Luckily for N.W.A fans, Ice Cube (O'Shea Jackson) and Dr Dre (Andre Young) were very much hands on during the making of the film.

The coolest aspect of this film was that the Ice Cube role was played by Cube's own son, O'Shea Jackson Jr. Cube, who transitioned into a prominent acting career once he became famous as a rapper, stressed that his son wasn't given this role just because he really resembles Cube and is his son, he had to earn the role like everyone else, and it took years of preparation.

Elsewhere in the cast, Jason Mitchell played the role of Eazy E. With Eazy E passing away due to complications of H.I.V in 1995, Mitchell had the tough assignment of playing the only member of the group who couldn't be mentored by him during the filming process.

Corey Hawkins, who formally was an actor of broadway, played Dr. Dre. Aldis Hodge played the role of MC Ren, and Neil Brown Jr played DJ Yella. Lastly, amongst the prominent cast, well renowned actor Paul Giamatti played the role of the rap groups controversial manager, Jerry Heller. Financial disputes between Heller and Ice Cube was the beginning of a snowball effect that would ultimately break the group up.

This group defied incredible odds to gain prominence in hip hop. In the beginning they strictly wanted to be an underground group, something that their community could follow. Soon enough, with controversy along the way, the group went worldwide and became a staple in rap history.

They did the only way they know how, giving raw, uncensored content that people may not want to hear, but need to hear.

A Beautiful Mind (2001)

A Beautiful Mind, directed by Ron Howard, follows the college career of John Forbes Nash Jr. From the moment John steps on Princeton's campus, he is treated like an outsider. John is very awkward and even more arrogant. He insults another student's work and research before clumsily running away, creating a disturbance in his wake. Other characters in the movie frequently use the line "the great John Nash" sarcastically, after he has messed something up. Shortly after, John strikes out with an attractive girl after asking if she would like to skip all the talking and just go straight to sex, and is told by a professor that his grades will not get him anywhere in life. John eventually develops an economic theory that disproves years of precedent, which leads to him getting a job as a codebreaker for the U.S. government. John quickly becomes the "best natural codebreaker" that the government has ever seen.

Through his codebreaking, John discovers a bomb threat and is tasked with decoding hidden Russian messages in newspapers from around the country. So we think. John is picked up by what he believes to be Russian spies and taken away.

He wakes up in a mental hospital, where doctors tell him and his wife that he has schizophrenia. This new knowledge causes the audience to question everything they have seen up to this point, wondering what is real and what was John's imagination. For the remainder of the film, John struggles with his diagnosis, starting and stopping his medication, attempting to continue his work while having his mind dulled by the medicine, and deciphering what is real and what is not. This leads to many potentially catastrophic situations, including John almost drowning his newborn baby and accidentally hitting his wife while trying to protect her from an imaginary person in their house. Day to day life has completely changed for John. While teaching at Princeton, he has to ask one student if a different student is actually there, or if he is imagining it. He has a breakdown on campus and creates another major disturbance there, as he struggles to control his illness. John is eventually recognized for his groundbreaking work in economics and is given a Nobel prize, finally reflecting all the years of work and trials he has gone through. A Beautiful Mind has a very deep, complex storyline that is enhanced through beautiful cinematography and truly puts the audience in John's shoes through the discovery that many events and characters in the film did not actually exist. John's doctor poetically explains his illness, asking his wife to "Imagine if you suddenly learned that the people, the places, the moments most important to you were not gone, not dead, but worse, had never been. What kind of hell would that be?" This line, and many other excellent pieces of dialogue show how crippling John's illness is, and how hard he must work to overcome and endure it.

Safe Haven

Safe Haven

Safe Haven is a romance novel by Nicholas Sparks. Expressing themes of love, secrets, and what it truly means to be safe, Safe Haven was another very successful novel by Nicholas Sparks. It is starring Julianne Hough, Josh Duhamel, and Cobie Smulders.

Katie (Julianne Hough), a young woman leaves her house after doing something with a bloody knife. She is shown moments later buying a bus ticket. The bus stops at this real small town. She now claims this town as her home.

At the general store in this town, she introduces herself as Katie. After getting a job as a waitress and purchasing a cozy little home in the woods, Katie becomes friends with her neighbor Jo and Alex. Alex has two children and is the owner of the convenience store in town. Alex’s wife passed away from cancer a few years prior.

Alex starts to fall for Katie and doing little things to help her out. The two go canoeing and fall in love. The kids come around and love Katie as well.

Katie’s past husband who is also a police officer searches for Katie. He is also an alcoholic and is not a good person. Alex finds out that there is a police report that they are looking for her and confronts Katie and gets mad because she wasn’t honest and her real name is Erin. He is also mad that he let his children around her. Her husband’s boss finds out that he sent out flyers looking for her and he gets suspended from his job. The husband would abuse Katie and physically beat her many times.

Katie packs up all her belongings and decides to flee before anyone can find her. Josh rushes to her house to find that it is empty and that Katie has already packed all her belongings. He drives to the ferry and tells her how much he loves her and that he will protect her no matter what. Katie still wanted to leave but eventually decided to stay. She explains the whole story to Alex and he is completely understanding and really cares about Katie.

Her ex husband breaks into Katie's neighbor`s home back in Boston and finds the phone number to the Southport restaurant that employs Katie. He finds the location and makes his way there. Arriving just on time for the Fourth of July parade, he begins his search for Katie through the crowd. He finally finds Katie and watches from a distance her dancing with Alex and watches as he leans over to kiss her, which makes him angry. Later, Katie has a dream that she is standing on the docks watching the fireworks when Jo comes up and tells Katie that "he" is here.

Katie wakes up and walks around in the convenience store and her ex husband spooks her. He is drunk and crying and asks Katie to move back to Boston with him. Katie refuses and tells him to leave. He pours gasoline all over the store and pulls out a lighter. Katie sees what he has done and sees that he has a lighter. She runs out and says she will go back with him. She then surprises him and pushes him in the water. A firework spark lands on the gasoline though and lit the entire store on fire. Alex sees the store has caught on fire. He gets on the boat and rushes across the lake. He begs Lexie to jump into his arms because she is stuck in the store. While this is happening, Katie and her ex husband are wrestling and he is trying to shoot her. After a long fight he finally pulls the trigger. She pushes him off of her and runs into Alex’s arms.

In the rubble Alex finds the desk his wife had and it still had all the letters she wrote in it. Alex gives Katie the letter with the words “To Her” written on it. The letter talks about whoever is reading this that Josh loves them very much and reveals that Katie’s neighbor was actually Alex’s wife and Katie could only see her.

I loved this movie. It was well written and I am a huge fan of Nicholas Sparks. He always writes great stories. This is definitely one of favorites alongside The Notebook.

Manchester by the Sea

Written and directed by Kenneth Lonergan, Manchester by the Sea is the story of Lee Chandler, played by Case Affleck.

After the death of his older brother, Lee becomes the guardian of his nephew Patrick, played by Lucas Hedges. Lee leaves his janitor job and goes back to Manchester-by-the-Sea to care for the fifteen year-old.

Lee has to face his ex-wife Randi, played by Michelle Williams, and his old community. Lee and Patrick struggle to adjust.

 Manchester by the Sea is a film that speaks of grief. It ultimately invites the question: how on earth would we be able to carry on after an event so tragically full of loss and guilt.

The Lobster

The Lobster is an imaginative, visionary film by director Yorgos Lanthimos.

The main character, David has recently been dumped by his wife. He lives in a dystopian society where single people have 45 days to find another love match or they will be turned into an animal of their choosing. 

David lives in a mysterious Hotel, where he has numerous romantic misadventures until he escapes. He joints a rebel group The Loners, who abandoned society and reject romance, where he meets Rachel Weisz. 

The Lobster has an extraordinary cast, and while the movie has moments and situations that are funny, there is a frightening undertone as well. 

The Lobster is a visionary movie and an ingenious reflection on society.

Get Smart (2008)

Although it didn't receive the greatest ratings, with 50% on rotten tomatoes and a 54% on metacritic, Get Smart will always be a personal favorite of mine. The comedic dialogue, exciting action scenes, and the perfect core cast to execute it creates non stop laughter through out the film's entirety.

When reviewing this movie look no further than the front liner and protagonist Maxwell Smart, played by well renowned actor Steve Carell. Carell was at the peak of his popularity at the time this movie came out, as he was in the middle of playing Michael Scott in The Office. He already had a hilarious reputation as an actor, and for me Get Smart took that to another level.

Carell is paired with veteran agent 99, played by Anne Hathaway, as she and Smart both work for the CIA and are tasked with stopping crime syndicate KAOS, after they attack U.S spy agency control. 99 is a savvy agent whose witty and completely capable in combat.

On the other hand, much like his name Smart has intelligence and is often boisterous about outstanding field exam scores. But in the field itself, which 99 makes clear to him is far different than a written test without any actual danger in front of you, Smart has some downfalls at first. His foolishness and absurd thought process in those moments that drives 99 up the wall provides a huge chunk of the unforgettable funny moments the movie has to offer.

The spunky core cast rounds out with Dwyane "The Rock" Johnson as Agent 23, and Alan Arkin as chief of operations for the CIA. In addition, the outrageously rude and sarcastic Siegfried, who plays the perfect funny enemy in this film, as he runs the operations of KAOS.

The poor ratings by movie critics could be a product of some loose ends in the plot. Even though it is meant to be an unrealistic and fun loving comedy that spins off of previous movies with the same concept.

But to answer any critique regarding the plot, I think the movie does a fantastic job of grabbing the audience emotionally, and turning the end of a loose and goofy comedy into a thrilling ending in which it demands the audience to be invested.

In an action packed last half hour of the film, Smart is putting in confinement by the CIA because he "falsely" sensed radio activity while he and agent 99 were in Russia probing a bakery. It turns out there was radioactivity in the bakery and agent 23 is exposed as a double agent when its discovered he probed the bakery earlier and made sure to overlook the dangerous activity inside.

Agent 23 immediately captures Agent 99 and tells the chief and Smart that if they follow him, he'll kill her. Smart pulls off all time heroics by saving 99 from being hand tied in 23's moving car. The two of them then proceed to discover a bomb planted by KAOS underneath a piano being used at a concert performed for the U.S President, played by James Caan, and stop a potential disaster.

Of course there's love and romance built in as Smart and Agent 99 end the movie dating, as their relationship sprouts while they're out in the field together. A fitting ending relationship wise considering 99 used to date 23, who turned out to be evil and Smart stopped him in his tracks.

Between the riveting action, excellent casting, and above all else the non stop comedy that makes Peter Segel's Get Smart a great film fitting for anyone in need of a good laugh.

Stuck (2017)

Stuck (2017) is Michael Berry's second feature film. The film's setting is a New York City subway car, the most perfect melting pot of all cultures and walks of life. This is brilliantly shown through the characters present.

There's a homeless man Lloyd, (Giancarlo Esposito) who lives on the subway and is viewed as an untouchable by the other passengers. Eve, (Ashanti) an African American woman, is struggling with unplanned pregnancy and finding a reason to be positive and hopeful. Also in the subway car is Alicia, (Arden Cho) a dancer whose past experiences and trauma have left her distrusting and fearful towards men, and her "stalker", Caleb (Gerard Canonico), an aspiring comic book artist. There is construction worker Ramon (Omar Chaparro) who works multiple jobs to pay for his daughter's dance lessons, and finally, a conservative old white woman, Sue (Amy Magida).
The film deals with the perceptions that each character has of the others, and how different the reality is. Each character's musical numbers take the audience outside the train and into their lives, offering brief but powerful insight into the characters minds. Lloyd, who Sue sees as just another creepy homeless person in NYC, is actually quite fond of Shakespeare and enjoys intelligent discussion.
Their shared feeling of a lack of a place in the world brings them closer than either of them thought possible.

Caleb, who Alicia sees as a threatening stalker who only wants her for her body, thinks that she is unbelievably beautiful and has even designed a comic book character based on her strength. Through his musical number, Caleb angrily calls Alicia out for the sense of entitlement he perceives she has, which is why she does not give him the time of day and acts like men must ask permission to look at her. Alicia reveals that she was sexually assaulted and now feels that men see her as only an object for their pleasure. She does not think she is "too good" for anyone, she is too afraid of being hurt to risk making another connection with a male. Through her musical number, she invites all males to look at her, as that is all they want to do anyway.

Caleb and Alicia begin to foster a connection which, by the end of the film, leads to Alicia giving Caleb her phone number, much to his joy and surprise. The film beautifully shatters each and every character's preconceived notions of one another, replacing them with a deep understanding of each character's daily challenges they must overcome.

The Shining

Review

The Shining is an amazing horror film directed by Stanley Kubrick. The film is rated R and was released in 1980. It was adapted from the novel by Stephen King. Diane Johnson and Stanley Kubrick also wrote the screenplay. It stars Jack Nicholson and Shelley Duvall. Jack Nicholson plays Jack Torrance, a writer who decides to be the winter caretaker of an empty hotel with his wife and son. He takes this time to write and it’s never revealed what he has written until the end. Being isolated makes for an interesting turn of events for the family. The son is physic and has visions of the past and future. He keeps saying “redrum” throughout the film and no one knows what he is talking about. When it is finally revealed what he means, it’s shocking. The things that go on at the hotel are very creepy at times. There’s a creepy shriveled woman in a bath tub. Also, the iconic scene with the twin girls is another one of those creepy moments.

It is a film that I watch whenever it’s on and I notice something new every time. One of my favorite scenes is when Jack says, “Here’s Johnny” it turns out it was an improvised line that Jack Nicholson got from the Johnny Carson late night show. In this article there is a video that shows Jack getting hyped up before the scene.

https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/film/watch-jack-nicholson-psyching-up-for-the-shining-s-axe-scene-1.2746337

This film is a must see for any horror or mystery fan. I was hesitant to watch for awhile because I don’t really like scary movies. I was definitely missing out because I really like the films that have been adapted from Stephen King’s books. Jack Nicholson was amazing as the Joker and he was great at playing Jack Torrance. Check it out if you haven’t seen it.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081505/