Alice in Wonderland

This is my second film I have watched in 3D and the quality is no way near as good as avatar. I'm assuming this is because James used his own 3d camera that he INVENTED and this just converts normal film to 3d as an afterthought.

This is Return to Wonderland but unlike Dorothy, Alice is just not cool and no amount of outfit changes can keep you interested.

Highlights are the air swimming Cheshire cat and the red queens frog footmen. Lowlights unfortunately are Johnny Depp's madhatter and his stupid futterwacken dance at the end which interrupts the tone of the film with it's 90s dance music and is completely unnecessary.

The design is hit and miss. The frames overcrowded and Danny Elfman's soundtrack insipid.

NO - You are old, Tim Burton," the young man said,
"And your hair has become very white;
And yet you incessantly stand on your head--
Do you think, at your age, it is right?"

Antichrist

Chaos reigns.

A woman and man are having sex, meanwhile their young son falls from the window to his death. The woman can't get over her grief and the couple retreat to their cabin where he trys to help her (he's a psychiatrist) but she becomes more unstable.

Lars Von Trier wants to make this about men and woman naming his characters She & He. The couple are adam and eve returning to eden which is no longer a haven, nature is now completely separate from the world of humans and the tree of knowledge is bare and dead.

This film looks great - scenes of their sons death, images of a churning forest and especially haunting are the animals Willem encounters. Actually I'm more disturbed/surprised by those animals than anything Charlotte does and she does some full on shit like snip off her own clitoris.

I enjoyed this because it's confronting and unusual, definitely horrifying but thought provoking as well and that's why it's art not Hostel.

YES - maybe Lars is a scientologist

Shutter Island

Set in the 1950s, Leo is investigating a missing patient at a hospital for the criminally insane.

How does someone go missing on an island? Are the doctors being entirely truthful? What experiments are being performed in the lighthouse?

If you don't realise where this is heading by the time Leo finds the who is patient 67? note then you're a fucking moron, what would be impressive is if you could tell this was a Martin Scorsese film without seeing the credits, but it's not so much the story as the setting and visual style of this film that makes it so interesting. Smoky, stormy, shadowy and slow paced this is a refreshing film to watch amongst all the effects driven 3D hyper action family fare

Great to see always awesome Patricia Clarkson and Mark Ruffalo and Leo is as solid as always (he'll get an oscar one day but not for another 5 years I reckon)

YES - an accomplished adult psychological horror.