Okay, so I had a nice long review of Hellboy written out and then I lost it. Sometimes digital life sucks. Anyway, the gist was something like this… I saw Hellboy a few days ago but I waited to review it until I could watch a related documentary that was slowly downloading onto my computer. What was the documentary? It was, as it turns out, a somewhat underwhelming piece called The Occult History of the Third Reich: SS Blood and Soil, a poorly done voiceover-with-crap-footage piece which attempted to encapsulate the more credible bits of the Nazi Occult Mythology. That …

A three-plus hour-long film based on lectures by a philosopher? Hey, I’m not really a fan of Heidegger, but I want to see this film just the same.

Today Lime and I returned from our trip and watched Shrek I (again, for me, in the hopes that we could watch Shrek II, though we found it had finished playing in Jeonju). Then we watched Van Helsing, becaused it was the most convenient movie for both of us (and she let me pick). Shrek: what can I say but I enjoyed it more this time around. Even if my girlfriend kept telling me that Shrek looks like me, and acts like me, with the same expressions, and so on? Ah well, I got my revenge when Fiona turned all …

It seems to be weird movie week here at eclexys. In a fit of curiosity, I watched al three Harry Potter movies, which I guess aren’t exactly weird but it’s weird that I, who had no interest in them before, watched them all in such quick succession. I found them alright, but I am still wondering how it is that the Potter movies and books became such a phenomenon. My neighbour Heather assures me that it’s the quality of the books, and has vowed to get a copy of the first novel into my hands so I can see for …

Well, I’ve just watched the proper version of Terry Gilliam’s movie Brazil, something I’ve wanted to do since Lime and I watched 12 Monkeys. I had serious doubts about being able to find it at any video shop in Korea, so I went ahead and downloaded it. If you read through some of the different reviews and commentaries out there (here are a few: 1, 2, 3, 4, and a particularly interesting one at #5), you get so many references thrown at you: “modernity”, Saussure, Weber, Citizen Kane, A Clockwork Orange, Kafka, Orwell’s 1984, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, …