Reviews

Coraline is not only significantly higher quality animation than Nightmare Before Christmas; using more frames, cleaner base materials (so you can get those seamless closeups), and introducing more nuanced human gestures into the individual characters, the animation is incredible.

The mirror characters are distinguished by the fact that their eyes are black buttons and the mirror universe itself is full of weirdly colourful characters and things that start off enchanting but make for a very organic transition towards the nightmarish as Coraline realises that this seemingly id...

It transpired that Gaiman was a fan of Selicks work on Nightmare, so the two collaborated, albeit with a few changes in the script to make the film longer than the 47 minutes they were originally looking at and we the audience were treated to this brilliant animated film which went on to being nomin...

who lent their voices to the characters, director Henry Selick, author of the book Neil Gaiman, and a few celebrities who weren't involved with the production at all such as PIXAR's Brad Bird and Portland's own Gus Van Sant and a slew of our local comic book celebrities like Craig Thompson and Dark ...