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

This delightfully odd horror movie presents a whimsically strange alternate reality to younger audiences.
A refreshing twist is that all the kids’ powers are…kind of useless. There’s a kid who can only move in slow motion, a kid who has every power in the world but can only use them randomly, and our main character Missy who has no powers at all. The thesis of the film seems to be that it doesn’t matter what kind of powers you have, its the way you use them, which is good for the warm and fuzzies.
The movie is centered around the title character who goes on a Christmas adventure.
The Night Doctor achieves telling an original story in which the pace accelerates progressively while supported by dark aesthetics.
Set in a future dystopian United States in which water is running out, Julia Hart’s Fast Color (2018) is a refreshingly different take on the superhero film.
Andor is an origin story where each side will do whatever it takes.