It is hard for me to focus on any current movies, because I am looking forward to Hellboy so much! Hellboy! Who needs to go see a movie about a semi-aryan looking famous Jewish carpenter when you could be seeing a movie that features a sarcastic red demon with the right hand of doom, and an appreciation for pancakes?
Which Hellboy character are you? (I’m Liz Sherman, fear my fire! FIRE!)
Do you want to create Hellboy playmobile figures for your kids? You could!

I did not have Hellboy on the brain when I went to see Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, the Charlie Kaufman/Michael Gondry movie that turns out to be a heartwarming tale about lovers having their memories erased. There’s even a web site up for the fictional memory erasing company Lacuna Inc.

Jim Carrey has always got on my nerves with his constant mugging, but he really underplays his role as Joel Barish. There are some interesting tricks done with scene transitions and lighting when Joel visits his past memories while they are slowly being stripped away. Somehow based on viewing Adaptation and Being John Malkovich, I was expecting a more cynical and disjointed movie. But it ends up being a much more coherent story than I thought, and I didn’t feel like it was about to collapse from the weight of its own cleverness, which was my reaction after seeing Adaptation. The title comes from an Alexander Pope poem, Eloisa to Abelard.