I never get the hate for Shelley Duvall's performance in The Shining. To me she's dead on as a wife who's been broken by years of tiptoeing around an abusive husband. It's certainly not fun or comfortable to watch, but it shouldn't be.

Whatever virtues The Room had thematically, they were undermined by what a complete pain in the ass it was to play the game. It was almost impossible to put it down and come back to it without disorientation, because you always had to return to your apartment to save, so upon reloading a saved game, you were always in…