Doctor Sleep. An adult Danny Torrance struggles to overcome the personal demons remaining from his traumatic childhood experiences at the Overlook Hotel, only for his psychic gift to connect him to a teenage girl who is being hunted by a pack of near-immortal psychic vampires who live off the lifeforce of those 'gifted' with what he calls "the shining". Ewan McGregor and Rebecca Ferguson star in this rather belated sequel to The Shining, based on the Stephen King novel. The film has a few issues - it's definitely too long though perhaps fortunately that flab is more in the first half than the second, which certainly delivers - and the recasting of Danny's parents for the flashback scenes is simultaneously understandable and justifiable yet still somewhat jarring given how much the film otherwise perfectly recreates the iconography of the Overlook from the original film for the climax of this one. But it's still a pretty solid film, with the highlights being Mike Flanagan's typically assured and atmospheric direction and Ferguson's performance as the main villain. Good stuff.
