If this wasn’t stop motion I might actually find it too scary to see. Then again I am a bit of a wimp when it comes to the uncanny, even when featured in a children’s film, and this one looks so full of Freudian dissonance it practically redefines das unheimliche. Coraline is a little girl [...]
Archive for April, 2009
Trailer of the Week: Coraline
Posted in Watching, tagged coraline, neil gaiman, stop motion animation, the uncanny, trailer of the week on April 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Presidential Pets
Posted in Watching, tagged bo, feller truman, obama pet, portuguese water dog on April 14, 2009 | 1 Comment »
The news we’ve all been waiting for. Bo, the portuguese water dog, has finally landed at the White House. If the shot on the left isn’t enough to sate your understandable curiosity, the Guardian has a mini-gallery collating all available photos of the fluffy hound. All five photos! Including one when he was just six [...]
Tanya Gold, the new Charlie Brooker
Posted in Reading, tagged charlie brooker, comment is free, susan boyle tanya gold, tanya gold on April 23, 2009 | 9 Comments »
I pretty much love Charlie Brooker. Something in his Guardian columns nearly always make me laugh. But when the media get hold of a personality they know people like, someone who can trade on his name alone, there’s always a risk of saturating the market. That’s why I was excited to read two excellently acerbic [...]
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