Quick and affordable 3D printing technology applied to classic stop-motion opens Dutch science program “Het Klokhuis” (The Apple Core) which is Holland’s oldest youth television show, covering everything from the history of dinosaurs to how an iPhone is made. It is a hybrid of hand crafted frame-by-frame animation and cleanly rendered apples with sprouting science experiments encapsulated like the seed of an idea about to be discovered.

“Be careful what you wish for.”

With a descending doll all expectation is set aside at the start of author Neil Gaiman and director Henry Selick’s Coraline. Her punch-and-cut deconstruction is distressing; at her inversion you may feel a gastric tug. You may also dream of submissive needlepoint only to awake with new eyes.

To paraphrase the film’s series of alphabet posters, “‘C’ is for Coraline – brave little girl. Who unlocks the door to a whole different world.”

Skittering along the path of the mad rat we feel a nibbling paranoia like some laced splinter of Crispin Glover’s mind in the opening sequence for Glen Morgan’s Willard. It is a nasty excavation of abstractions, from pocket knives to portraiture, of this rat paw and that rat claw burrowing deep. The malicious unseen are everywhere like some metastasizing rat king.