Those Scotties were hard work.

What happens when you walk into a cinema filled with peopel wearing sunglasses? It might be a sign that you’re going to see something different - or childish. Well Coraline is a bit of both. It’s a children’s film, really but it’s a kids film for grown ups. First of all, i have to get it out of the way - 12 euro per ticket for 3D films, and €1.50 supplement for unlimited customers. I’m outraged at that. Not enough that i’d tell people to stay away from Coraline. It’s a beautiful, colourful, funny film. It’s all about blue haired Coraline, who’s parents don’t have much time for her. They’ve just moved into the Pink palace apartments and are getting on with their gardening catalogue. Coraline starts to go exploring and finds a little door that leads into another world, where everything looks a little bit brighter, and tastier. Except … There’s more

An interview with Neil Gaiman

I have a confession to make. I don’t read comic books or graphic novels (yes I know, boo hiss me) but despite that I was very excited to talk to author Neil Gaiman during the week for RTE 2fm. After all, I knew he wrote the book on which the new kids movie Coraline is based, I knew that I had The Graveyard Book at home on my book shelf still waiting to be read (to be fair I have a backlog of about 100 books to catch up on, I buy them faster than I can read them) and I knew he also wrote Stardust, the book on which the 2007 movie of the same name was based. But during my research I discovered the man is also very active on Twitter, has been blogging for quite some time now and has some very interesting taste in music. Unfortunately … There’s more