We have spoken a lot on this website about censorship, and nigh on 100% of the time you will find our rabid rage driven reviewers come done on the side of the movie, defending the director and deriding the censors.

Our American friends across the pond do get it good sometimes.

MadWomanInTheAttic: This is the real deal. From the opening sequence of the car driving further and further into remote landscape The Shining exerts its power over you. On the surface is a fairly simple narrative: man takes job as winter caretaker at a huge and isolated country hotel in order to get some writing done, [...]