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...Coraline (pronounced core-align), which Selick adapted from a kids' book by graphic novelist Neil Gaiman, begins with a needle thrust in the viewer's eye. Mostly, though, 3D is used to heighten the picture's antirealistic, otherworldly mood. The illusion of depth is boldly stylized; the scene of a front yard or a kitchen will be a series of flat surfaces, like the planes in a pop-up picture book. This is the animated film as art film. Coraline doesn't try to ingratiate; it just looms, like a cemetery gate, daring curious souls to tiptoe in and fend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Chilly World of Coraline | 2/6/2009 | See Source »

...couplings in the film, these two represent the smallest amount of star wattage. Maybe that's why they seem marginally more real than the rest of the celebrity wax fruit that adorns He's Just Not That Into You. Ben Affleck and Jennifer Aniston play Neil and Beth, a couple who have been together for seven years. Neil still doesn't want to get married. For this, he is banished to live in unwashed squalor on his 44-ft. sailboat. I don't know about Neil the character, but Affleck the actor doesn't seem to mind much. His attitude...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: He's Just Not That Into You, and Neither Are We | 2/5/2009 | See Source »

Once a planet, now a dwarf, Pluto has lodged itself in the American consciousness for three-quarters of a century. Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, director of New York City's Hayden Planetarium, explores the little guy's allure in his new book The Pluto Files. He talked to TIME about demoting a planet, how he became one of America's best-known scientists and how science will fare in the Obama Administration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson | 1/21/2009 | See Source »

...Neil Young has never been one for lyrics - he's doing well if he can work a three-syllable word into a melody - but even he has standards, and they usually don't allow for lyrics like "Download this, it sounds like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Neil Young's Bailout Song | 1/16/2009 | See Source »

Read "The Resurrection of Neil Young...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Neil Young's Bailout Song | 1/16/2009 | See Source »

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