Hotels are a fascinating dichotomy. In their erection, they symbolize a cohesive permanence, while each of their subdivided quarters represents separation and temporality – momentary domiciles with perfunctory furnishings and individual use accoutrements like soaps, shampoos, and mouthwashes. Used once these items are thrown away. Used for a day, each room is inhabited and abandoned, like a […]

 

 

Room 237 offers some interesting ideas about Kubrick’s The Shining, but provides very little substance to support its ambition.

 

 

Sloppy, shoddy, inconsistent, and not in the fun, Expendables-type way.