Cinematical reported an interesting tidbit: in a few years, new audiences won’t see “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind” as a fantasy but rather as realism! Here’s how:
Time reports that researchers at Johns Hopkins University think that by removing proteins from the brain’s fear center, they can permanently erase memories. This isn’t to stylishly morph memories at the whim of the rich, but rather “to enhance behavioral therapy for such conditions as post-traumatic stress disorder.”
In other words, they are developing a targeted memory erasure program similar to what creepers like Mark Ruffalo and Elijah Wood ran on Jim Carrey! I really hope the people that market this technology don’t try to sell it using “Eternal Sunshine” because I sure as heck didn’t want to go erase someone from my memory after watching that movie. There was almost a sort of cautionary tale nestled inside that script, particularly through the theme of destiny. We are meant to meet who we meet and have the experiences that we have for a reason, and there’s no way to escape that.
So you will not find me signing up for permanent memory loss … even if Clementine Kruczynski was there.
Yesterday, I finished David Sedaris’ “When You Are Engulfed in Flames,” well over a year after I first picked it up. For some strange reason, last week I just had this insatiable mental impetus to devour a book. I found Sedaris’ collection of hilarious essays nestled in my bookcase and decided to start over and bask in his humor once again.
Today, November 26, 2010, I achieved an important milestone.
I’ll go there again – another moviegoing pet peeve that I think I may have just realized bothers me.
The directors of the new and already forgotten movie “Skyline,” the Strause Brothers, were quite outspoken about the movie’s visual effects. They worked on movies like “Titanic,” “300,” and “Avatar” but decided to make their own movie on a sort of DIY scale. The movie’s release certainly made them feel entitled to call out in 
Welcome back to the random factoid column, which I should really just rename “Dumb Stuff Jessica Alba Says.” As you may remember, she made the news last week for Elle interview in which she claimed that 
This is totally random, out there, and will probably be discarded as one of those “too personal” posts that probably have no use to the average reader. But if you made it past that first long sentence, then clearly you give some sort of a care about what I’m writing, so I’ll write it anyways.
I 
In case you haven’t heard, there’s a new pairing of legendary director and actor to make every pundit go “Oscar winner in 2 years.” Morgan Freeman and Clint Eastwood for “Invictus” was an example of just such a pairing.
Today, ladies and gentlemen, I feel like a real critic.
I have to admit, I’ve always wondered if I would ever walk into a theater thinking I was seeing one movie and then see another. I get particularly suspicious when the trailers before the movie don’t seem to match in tone with the movie I’m about to see. What I could only imagine became a reality for some audiences this week. According to 
Well, there goes Redbox as being a great deal for consumers.
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