Mark the calendar, because I am going to do something almost unheard of in the Blogosphere. I am going to admit that I was wrong. In 2003 I saw “Gods and Monsters” for the first time and gave it a B-. My capsule review read thusly: Good ideas, but the picture just doesn’t connect 100%. I much prefer the similar, and simultaneously lighter and more tragic “Love and Death on Long Island.” Strike all that from the record. “Gods and Monsters” is one of the most haunting elegies on aging and remorse that I’ve ever seen. Sir Ian McKellen, always fantastic, gives one of the most remarkable screen performances of the last ten years. Also, there is a layer of humor here that I was too out-of-it to recognize the first go around. This is a marvelous, important, noble and lasting piece of work.