Monthly Archives: January 2010

Film Review: Coraline (2009)

Cora­line (2009) With the voices of: Dakota Fan­ning, Teri Hatcher, Keith David Directed by: Henry Selick Writ­ten by: Henry Selick, based on Neil Gaiman’s novel Rated: PG Rat­ing: 5 (out of five) Cora­line is the third stop-motion film from Henry Selick, the mas­ter­mind behind The Night­mare Before Christ­mas.  (I will admit that I thought Corpse Bride

Proper use of the apostrophe

Turns out that “Chris’s car” is just as cor­rect as “Chris’ car” — see Rule #2 here: http://www.grammarbook.com/punctuation/apostro.asp

Film Review: Surrogates (2009)

Sur­ro­gates (2009) Star­ring: Bruce Willis, Radha Mitchell, Ving Rhames Directed by: Jonathan Mostow Writ­ten by: Michael Fer­ris and John D Bran­cato, based on the graphic novel by Robert Ven­ditti and Brett Weldele Rated: PG-13 Rat­ing: 2 (out of five) A few years ago, Alex Proyas’s I, Robot (2004) came out.  It decon­structed Isaac Asimov’s phe­nom­e­nal “I,