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Coraline, a review by Critter

Coraline



Year: 2009

Director(s): Henry Selick

Run Time: 96  minutes

Plot: An adventurous girl finds another world that is a strangely idealized version of her frustrating home, but it has sinister secrets.

Cast: DVD Extras:My ThoughtsThe Nightmare Before Christmas I was looking forward to this film quite a bit. I love the stop-motion animation technique and am glad to see it is making somewhat of a comeback, what with The Fantastic Mr FoxMy Rating
 

(From Critter's Animated Film/Anime Marathon on December 21st, 2009)

Daybreakers, a review by dfmorgan

Daybreakers

Year: 2009
Director: The Spierig Brothers
Cast: Ethan Hawke, Willem Dafoe, Sam Neill
OverviewWatched: 9th. Oct 2010
My Thoughts: Oh dear I'm not having much luck with my choices for the October 2010 Horror Marathon. After 2 werewolf failures I thought I'd try a vampire film. A slightly different concept here with the vampires now the race in the majority and the humans are in decline so the 'civilised' vampires are looking for fresh methods to generate blood for their survival. It wasn't too bad a film, better than the earlier two in this marathon, but to me Ethan Hawke seemed to be acting on some form of auto-pilot in that he just did the bare minimum that was needed in each scene. I have seen other films with him (Before the Devil Knows You're Dead, Lord of War, Taking Lives, Training Day) but to be honest can't remember much about his acting in those.

My Rating: Overall slightly better but not one I can say I enjoyed so a 2

Dave

(From 2010 October Horror Marathon (Discussion thread) on October 10th, 2010)

[Rerun Marathon] Spaced, a review by Tom

8/10

Another great episode. I found it as good as the first episode but not better (therefore "only" an eight)

(From [Rerun Marathon] Spaced on October 25th, 2007)