Thursday, March 4, 2010

PREVIEWS – MARCH MOVIES

1. Alice in Wonderland
This fantasy adventure film is directed by Tim Burton, and stars Mia Wasikowska, Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Anne Hathaway, Crispin Glover, Michael Sheen and Stephen Fry. It is an extension of the Lewis Carroll novels Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass.



Alice Kingsley, now 19, attends a party shortly after the death of her beloved father. Alice spots a white rabbit wearing a waistcoat and pocket watch. In shock and confusion, she runs off into a maze and follows the White Rabbit through it. She eventually tumbles down a rabbit hole into Underland, more commonly referred to as "Wonderland" by its inhabitants. She had visited this place 10 years earlier, but had entirely forgotten about it. She is also told that she is the only one who can slay the Jabberwock, the dragon who terrorizes the inhabitants of Wonderland under the rule of the Red Queen.

Opens: March 5, 2010 Runtime: 1 hr. 49 min. Rated: PG

Sunday, February 28, 2010

PROFILE – KATHRYN BIGELOW


“The Rush of Battle is often a potent and lethal addiction, for war is a drug”

                                            -Chris Hedges



These are the first lines that come on your screen when you begin to watch (one of the) the best movie of 2009 -- “The Hurt Locker”, directed by Kathryn Bigelow.

Born November 27, 1951, in San Carlos California; Kathryn Ann Bigelow was an only child raised by her factory painter father and librarian mother.