Review of Room 237 (2012) by Andy P — 23 Jul 2014

I really enjoyed this. It's an entertaining beautifully edited little essay on the merits and shortcomings of obsessive over-analysis. The stuff about the geography of the Overlook is really cool, though I think Ascher wasted too much time on the Moon-landing stuff (which really could have been left out to be honest), and the "playing it backwards and forwards at the same time" thing, which is really dumb considering the whole movie is done in centre-of-frame compositions which (spoiler alert) sometimes line up.