Escaping Doppelgangers: "Coraline" Serves Up Adventure in a Parallel World
This delightfully odd horror movie presents a whimsically strange alternate reality to younger audiences.

Ray Steinmeyer, the UN nuclear inspector, visits a European country with his daughter. The daughter is kidnapped by a group of Russian extremists who demand nuclear warheads for some dismantled missiles in exchange. The EU contacts the CIA, which deploys a freelance commando team led by Jarrett. The CIA also sends Jinger as an observer, but what Jarrett and his team don't know is that her real mission is to kill Jarrett and the group and bring the girl back herself to erase the traces of US involvement.
This delightfully odd horror movie presents a whimsically strange alternate reality to younger audiences.
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When you don’t factor in the plethora of inferior sequels that have been produced, Luca is one of Pixar’s simplest and most unassuming films in years — and there is absolutely nothing wrong with that. The film thrives on being a visual feast with a warm message for all ages, so much so that its unoriginal storyline doesn’t feel that big of a problem.
"La Noria" deftly subverts audience expectations as it explores childhood grief, anxieties, and pain. The award-winning short shows us that often our monsters are often sprung from our darkest places.
'An American Werewolf in London' possesses a possible queer reading in the way it envisions a heterosexual romance being undone by the presence of a creature who embodies self-contentment in the face of social alienation.
Kat Wahlen’s The Whiteboard tells, or rather shows, a delightful love story between two young women who meet in detention.