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With Tim Burton on directorial duties, you won’t be surprised to find the new 3D version of ‘Alice in Wonderland’ takes a few liberties with the original story. Or that it stars Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter. Robin Askew…
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  • THE BIG PICTURE - Alice in Wonderland (PG)

    USA 2010 108 mins Dir: Tim Burton Starring: Johnny Depp, Mia Wasikowsa, Anne Hathaway, Helena Bonham Carter, Matt Lucas Voices: Michael Sheen, Stephen Fry, Alan Rickman, Barbara Windsor, Christopher Lee l Tim Burton doing Lewis Carroll? It’s difficult to imagine… READ MORE

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Film Reviews

 

COMING SOON
March 26: Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang (pictured) Emma Thompson reprises her role as a magical nanny.

March 26: the Blind side ‘Inspirational’ drama about a white family who adopt a traumatised black youth,
who goes on to become an American Football player. Sandra Bullock was Oscar nominated for her performance.

March 26: Lourdes Austrian drama about a disabled woman’s pilgrimage to the French Catholic shrine.

March 26: No One Knows about Persian Cats Eye-opening, fact-based drama filmed illicitly in Tehran, exploring the city’s underground music scene, from
a heavy metal band playing in a cowshed to rappers performing at the top of an unfinished building.

March 26: Father of my Children French drama about suicide and its aftermath.

March 26: Extract Mike (‘Beavis and Butt-Head’) Judge returns to the workplace for a follow-up of sorts to his
cult hit ‘Office Space’ with Jason Bateman as the owner of an extract manufacturing plant who faces myriad professional and personal problems.

March 26:Perrier’s Bounty Dublinset action-comedy with Cillian Murphy, Jim Broadbent and Jodie Whittaker

April 2: How to Train Your Dragon Animated kiddie comedy set in a mythical world of dragons and burly
Vikings.

April 2:Kick-ass Matthew Vaughn directs an action-comedy about a high school kid who decides to become a superhero, undeterred by the fact that he has no super-abilities. Cast includes Nicolas Cage, Mark Strong, Aaron Johnson and Christopher Mintz-Plasse.

April 2: Clash of the Titans ‘Incredible Hulk’ director Louis Leterrier remakes the 1981 fantasy flick based on the Greek myth of Perseus and Andromeda. Ray Harryhausen couldn’t be tempted out of retirement to do the effects this time, so they’re all CGI. Liam Neeson gets to play Zeus.

April 2:Remember me Steady, girls: it’s ‘Twilight’ hunkster Robert Pattinson in a romantic drama.

April 2: Double take Intriguing Belgian-Dutch “part mock documentary, part conceptual provocation” in which Alfred Hitchcock meets his future self in the Cold War era.

April 9: the headless Woman Award-winning Argentinean drama about a woman who slowly self-destructs after an apparent car accident.

April 9: Samson and Delilah Award-winning Australian drama set in an isolated Aborigine community in the Central Australian desert.