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...Mafia in Italian or American film history. In its depiction of the Camorra crime family, there are no good guys, no crusading cops, no mama pleading with her son to stay out of the rackets. There's also no Mr. Big, Dr. No or Don Corleone stroking a house cat and intoning gritty or pearly aphorisms. The movie stays at street level, showing the lower- and middle-rung employees enmeshed in a system they can't escape, the perps or victims of murders dispatched with neither mercy nor regret. (See pictures of the most notorious Mafia leaders of the past...
...would it change my experience? And more broadly, now that TV (the medium) is divorced from the television (the machine), now that video is as portable as a Grisham paperback, now that big-budget series can be blog-embedded and e-mailed just like your YouTube video of your cat falling asleep--what are we even talking about when we talk about...
...used to buy Donald Trump's toilet paper. 2. I almost stole someone's cat last weekend. 3. I would do dirty, dirty things to Tina Fey. 4. I have always felt destined for greatness. So far, this has been a total bust. 5. My favorite activities when I was young were building forts that spanned the whole playroom, dancing to Michael Jackson and throwing my brother down the stairs. 6. I work "That's What She Said" jokes into every conversation. (See TIME's list of T shirt-worthy slogans.) 7. My grandmother once told...
...probably think this other world is a dream come true," the Cat tells Coraline. "But it's not." He's right. In the deeply, darkly conservative spirit of most fairy tales, which are not adventures but horror stories, Coraline will find that all those sweets and sweet words are simply fattening her up for the kill, like Gretel in the gingerbread house. And Other Mother is worse than a Stepford mom. She's... well, we'll just say she's very bad, and has been so for a very long time. Almost as nefarious as her plans...
...rural Oregon. The figures are angular and mostly spindly, like undernourished Europeans after the war; they might be denizens of pestilential Vienna in the 1949 thriller The Third Man. Some of the characters are distinctly European, like Bobolinsky and the theatrical ladies. But even Coraline and the Cat, and certainly Other Mother in her final, spidery metamorphosis, lack the soft lines and winning personalities found in most U.S. animation. Indeed, the girl's "real" environment and her dream-nightmare one are equally remote from the reassuring landscapes in standard American cartoon features. That chilly visual vocabulary, along with a narrative...