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

Freewheeling distiller Terry wrangles his brother Tobin into one of his poorly planned schemes; a show focused on wine, whiskey and food. Tobin is frustrated when Terry shows up with a film crew comprised of eccentric personalities armed with dubious abilities. Meanwhile, Sly Fox, Tobin's biggest competitor for the coveted Golden World Wine Award is cleverly plotting to steal the prestigious award and break his multi year winning streak.
This delightfully odd horror movie presents a whimsically strange alternate reality to younger audiences.
“Candyman ain't a 'he.’ Candyman is the whole damn hive." Candyman represents all Black victims of white supremacy, and this art form narratively conveys it in a succinct, adulatory way, the history of which is rare to find.
Wacky antics ensue when a 100-year-old Jewish man wakes up from a pickled hibernation in the modern world.
'The Lovebirds' is one of those movies that has a very direct appeal when it comes to its comedy. There isn’t a singular style, so much as tidbits of various ones here and there.
There’s been a longstanding criticism of sci-fi films about its lack of Black characters. For the past few years, Anthony Mackie has been successfully representing Black masculinity in the otherwise homogenous genre and I am here for it.
Few movies deal with aging (particularly aging women) with as much compassion as Relic does. Yet it’s not sickly sweet and not a soapbox rant against ageism. Relic simply is, allowing the horror to seep in quietly and carefully.