Here are the kind of theories that the five interviewees in Rodney Ascher’s Room 237 have come up with about Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining: One believes that it’s an allegory about the genocide of ...

The documentary Room 237 sounds like film-buff catnip, and it looks that way for a while. Subtitled “Being an inquiry into The Shining in 9 Parts,” this big film-festival hit from last year is a ...

Zooming…zooming…middle photograph, second row. There’s Jack Torrance, beaming, fronting his new (old?) family. July 4th Ball, 1921. Ascher acts as a portal ...

'Room 237,' directed by Rodney Ascher, is a documentary about Stanley Kubrick's 'The Shining' -- and the secrets embedded therein. (Photo by IFC Films) The New Orleans political documentary "Getting ...

The first thing you realize while watching “Room 237” is that you haven’t seen Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining” enough. You definitely haven’t seen it as many times as the people in the film ...

LOS ANGELES -- "The Shining" hit theaters more than three decades ago, but as the upcoming documentary "Room 237" makes clear, many moviegoers had a hard time leaving the Overlook Hotel. The Stanley ...

Last year's Fantastic Fest, held at the Alamo Drafthouse in Austin, TX, left us positively reeling from its succession of out-there horror, inventive sci-fi, and other independent cinematic oddities.

I've seen Stanley Kubrick's horror masterpiece, "The Shining," but "Room 237" proves I've never really seen it. This documentary, which came out last year, sheds light on the many interpretations of ...

Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining is a film that inspires strong reactions, and people have been trying to pin down what it’s really about almost since the day it was released. With Room 237, first-time ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of omaha.com stories. Cancel anytime. One person believes “The Shining” was Stanley Kubrick's commentary on the Holocaust. Another points out clues that reveal the film ...

For years, the circa-1924 structure above Clermont Lounge was abandoned, dark and pretty creepy. Then Hotel Clermont opened in the old building this summer, and it became something glamorous, pulsing ...