Last night I watched Coraline (2009), helpfully sent me by LoveFilm - a stop-motion animated movie of Neil Gaiman's novel about a young girl who slips into a superficially appealing but finally threatening alternative world. I've seldom been so captivated. Tim Burton's films are great fun, but splendidly vacuous; this is Burton with heart and soul. Henry Selick also directed The Nightmare Before Christmas, which almost seems a dry run for Coraline: I'm tempted to say it picks Burton up and cleans its teeth with him. The weather was atrocious in Swanvale Halt and the wind and rain howled around the Rectory, which was nothing more than the film deserved. Wonderful.
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