Alice in Wonderland

I was excited to hear that Tim Burton was going to be taking on a project to remake/adapt “Alice in Wonderland”. After seeing the classic Disney film from 1951, the trippy imagery and odyssey-like approach to the narrative was intriguing to be given to someone like Burton. The original texts, “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” and “Through the Looking Glass”, were somewhat compressed into the 1951 Disney film. In this adaptation, it’s the same. But,... Keep Reading...

Shutter Island

Mystery films with a twist. This concept has been done so many times in the last 10 years, badly, that I think as an audience we spend more time just trying to figure out the twist at the end than pay attention to the narrative of the story. M. Night Shyamalan has almost single-handedly ruined the sub-genre in itself by making hokey, cheap “twists” to his already weak and thin narratives in movies such as “The Village” and “Signs” that when you see a film advertising ... Keep Reading...