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Even the most video-game jaded should be dazzled by Alice's Adventures in Wonderland as reimagined by Robert Sabuda. Modestly calling itself a pop-up book, it is in fact a collection of delicately engineered set pieces that protrude in every direction. On one two-page spread, a group of miniature playing cards arranged in an arch looks almost like sculpture. It may be best to keep the book away from the very young, who will probably be so enamored of it that they'll want to rip, crush or chew its fragile constructions...
...movie. Johnny has an angry, explosive side. And his wife has a sad watchfulness about her that, in Morton's performance, embraces something more than the hard facts of her life. It is their girls who enchantingly center the film. What looks like squalor to us looks like a wonderland to them, a place to be explored and embraced. They're eager and innocent and unfrightened--especially when they reach out to "the Screaming Man" who lives downstairs. His real name is Mateo, he is played by Djimon Hounsou (Amistad), and he's a reclusive, angry artist who is dying...
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...Wonderland opens, John Holmes (Val Kilmer) comes to grips with the fading of his fame as the first and biggest hardcore porn star: he has become just another junkie desperate for his next score. Through a variety of mysterious circumstances, he ends up enlisted by both of his drug dealers as they and their gangs attack each other. Holmes’ relative guilt in both actions is questioned in Rashomon-like flashbacks that see the past through very different perspectives. Until the very end, we are only clear about the strong sleaziness that pervades this man. Wonderland demonstrates how truly...
Humans can be a truly awful group and no new movie demonstrates this as clearly as Wonderland. Some may be tempted to think that this Wonderland can only be found by going through a rabbit hole entering another terrible universe. In truth, Wonderland unflinchingly show us our own world, making it that much harder to take...