Looking Elsewhere Looking Elsewhere: October 28, 2015 A farewell to a beloved film critic. Free music from Welcome Wagon. The President and Marilynne Robinson, Part 2. The Dardenne brothers. Back to the Future. Mulholland Drive. And news about three promising film projects.
On Movies & Media Neil Gaiman's "The Graveyard Book," Directed by Wrong Howard? An open letter to Neil Gaiman: Why? Why has "The Graveyard Book" been taken away from Henry Selick, the master animator who gave us "The Nightmare Before Christmas" and "Coraline"? And why does it appear to be in the hands of Wrong Howard?
On Movies & Media MirrorMask (2005): Or, Neil Gaiman's Girls, Part Two MirrorMask, the Jim Henson Company's most wildly imaginative post-Henson release, remains fairly obscure. And that's a shame, because it is a big-screen spectacle par excellence. (This review has a 2026 update.)
On Movies & Media Coraline (2009): Or, Neil Gaiman’s Girls, Part One In what may be their greatest accomplishment in stop animation, LAIKA gives us a complicated and compelling Coraline. (Note: This review now includes a 2026 update.)
On Movies & Media Come Hell or High Water (Again), Terry Gilliam Will Make That La Mancha Movie Paste reports the almost inevitable news (first noted at Empire) that Terry Gilliam is keeping the dream alive. He once was lost (in La Mancha), but he will be found. "[Producer] Jeremy Thomas is very close to getting all the pieces of paper signed from all the people who
