Remember when Alec Baldwin was a superhero?
Jake + Mitch venture back into the ’90s vault and relish the red scarfed glory of The Shadow. Along the way they hit a few key questions:
- Why isn’t comic book hero Alec Baldwin a bigger deal?
- What if Sam Raimi and Bruce Campbell did a remake?
- Is Baldwin’s Lamont Cranston just Don Draper minus the booze?
As is the case with most pre-21st Century campy comic flicks, this one had a moment… just not a big one. Either way, The Shadow is a fun ride and every bit deserving of a deep-dive.
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If the movie is finally just a little less than the sum of its parts, maybe that’s appropriate. The original “Shadow” novels were pounded out by Walter Gibson at a rate of 60,000 works a week, and consumed by magazine and radio audiences not because they were individually great, but because collectively they created a dream.