Hellboy
Somehow our almost-once-a-week movie ritual got interrupted (I think due to our Christmas trip) and we hadn't been to the movies in ages. So last Sunday we went and saw Hellboy. All the reviews were pretty glowing and I must say I wasn't disappointed.
Unlike with Spiderman or the X-Men, I had never even heard of Hellboy before, so I do not know how it compares to the comics. Still, the movie was pretty cool. It had the coloring and mood of a comic book. It wasn't monochromatic, but the lighting was always blueish or olive-ish -- almost like a duotone and it worked to great effect. The other neat thing was that despite all the mayhem, there were like three drops of red blood in the entire movie (OK, there was lots of blue monster blood, but that doesn't count).
So Hellboy gets my thumbs up. Now to get some blood and gore, we might go and see The Passion over this coming weekend.
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There's a good review of The Passion here: http://www.nybooks.com/articles/17026. And, as a bonus, there is also a review of what sounds like an interesting book, "Vows of Silence: The Abuse of Power in the Papacy of John Paul II".