The movie The Hurt Locker came out as the biggest winner at the 82nd Academy Awards as it won in six categories out of nine it was nominated in. It got the award for Best Director, Best Actor, Best Original Screenplay, Best Sound Editing, Best Sound Mixing, and Best Film Editing.

It beat Avatar and others for the Best Picture Award and its director Kathryn Bigelow becomes the first woman to win the an Oscar Award for Best Director.

The movie was actually released theatrically in Italy in 2008, when it premiered at the Venice Film Festival. It was released in the United States on June 26, 2009 but was not really a commercial success.

It only entered the mainstream consciousness as people become curiouser and curiouser (as Alice in Wonderland quotes it) about the movie following its string of awards and honors from critics’ organizations, festivals and groups.

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All ye Twilight fans rejoice! The official movie trailer for the third installment of the Twilight Saga by Stephenie Meyer has just been released today by Summit Entertainment.

For the die-hard fans, this preview for Eclipse is the equivalent of Santa Claus giving them an early Christmas present.

For a casual observer like me, I see nothing new.

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Lewis Carroll is actually the pseudonym of English author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson.

The author is noted for his facility at word play, logic, and fantasy. He writes under the literary nonsense genre which refers to a style or motif in literature that plays with the conventions of language and the rules of logic and reason via sensical and non-sensical elements. The effect of nonsense is often caused by an excess of meaning, rather than a lack of it.

His best novels Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass are considered as classics. They are famous for quotes uttered by its various peculiar and anthropomorphic characters so much so that they became part of popular culture.

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The 2010 movie adaptation of Lewis Carroll novels Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass promises to be an epic 3D fantasy adventure.

Alice in Wonderland combines live action and animation. Today’s technology enables visionary Director Tim Burton to finally bring to the big screen his own rendition of the magical world that Alice first encountered as a 9-year old girl.

The fantasy world is populated by peculiar and anthropomorphic creatures. Here is the list of Alice in Wonderland characters that appear in the movie.

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Hollywood director Tim Burton has another treat for us.

From the man who brought us dark and quirky-themed movies such as Edward Scissorhands, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Sleepy Hollow, Big Fish and Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street comes another  odd movie, Alice in Wonderland.

It is the 2010 rehash of the Lewis Carroll novels Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass.

Alice in Wonderland stars the equally eccentric and Tim Burton favorite, actor Johnny Depp as the Mad Hatter. Their constant collaboration reminds me of Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio who has Shutter Island as their latest project.

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Alice in Wonderland is an epic 3D fantasy adventure starring Mia Wasikowska as Alice who returns to the magical world she first encountered as a 9-year old girl 10 years ago. She is reunited with her old friends and learns of her true destiny: to end the Red Queen’s reign of terror.

The movie also stars Johnny Depp as the Mad Hatter and directed by Tim Burton through the creative spinning of Lewis Carroll novels Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass by writer Linda Woolverton.

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Dennis Lehane’s 2003 commercially and critically successful novel titled Shutter Island will now be adapted into the silver screen.

It will star Leonardo DiCaprio and directed by Martin Scorsese.

Knowing the credentials of these two Hollywood bigwigs, we know this movie will also be commercially and critically acclaimed.

DiCaprio and Scorsese has also worked in films such as Gangs of New York, The Aviator and the Oscar Best Picture awardee,  The Departed.

Shutter Island is set to be released on February 19, 2010.

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