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April 20-26: Including Broken Embraces and The Amazing Spider-Man

By Fiona Rae In TV Films

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11th April, 2013
SATURDAY APRIL 20 Coraline (Four, 6.00pm). Writer-director Henry Selick (The Nightmare Before Christmas) and Neil Gaiman are a match made in animated heaven: Selick’s entirely stop-motion film – none of your flashy CGI here – of Gaiman’s book is a Freudian fairy tale par excellence. Coraline, 11, moves to a ramshackle house in Oregon with her distracted parents. Through a secret door and down a round, soft passage, she finds a better mum and dad whose only flaw seems to be button eyes. The animation is exquisite and ...

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