Coraline is a stop animation film (think Rankin & Bass’s The Year without a Santa Claus or, more fittingly, Tim Burton’s Nightmare Before Christmas , which Coraline director Henry Selick also directed ...

CORALINE RETURNS Portland's own Laika animation studio made a mightily impressive debut in the animated feature world earlier this year with "Coraline." Director Henry Selick and crew wowed critics ...

Based on Neil Gaiman's book, director and screenwriter Henry Selick has created his best film since "The Nightmare Before Christmas." (Note that it is significantly darker than "Nightmare," such that ...

‘Coraline’ is an amazing movie and an exemplary piece of animation. Directed by Henry Selick (The Nightmare Before Christmas) and adapted from the book by Neil Gaiman, ‘Coraline’ is a dark fairy tale ...

Not only is Henry Selick's charming "Coraline" a terrific children's story, adapted from a novel by Neil Gaiman, but this is the first stop-motion feature ever made in 3-D. By Kirk Honeycutt Just when ...

Neil Gaiman's acclaimed children's novel makes an uneasy transition to the stage in this off-Broadway musical adaptation featuring music by acclaimed indie rocker Stephen Merritt of the Magnetic ...

This eccentric fantasy finds Henry Selick scaling new heights of ghoulish whimsy. “Coraline” may benefit from the added synergy of an upcoming Off Broadway musical (slated for a May 6 world premiere) ...