Future Films Heads Up: Disney’s Alice Through the Looking Glass (27 May 2016)
Nov 08 2015- Movies
- Last Updated on 13 April 2016
- Monica Costa
Alice Through the Looking Glass is the sequel to Tim Burton’s movie Alice in Wonderland (2010) and reunites the all-star cast from the worldwide blockbuster phenomenon, including: Johnny Depp, Anne Hathaway, Mia Wasikowska and Helena Bonham Carter along with the voices of Alan Rickman, Stephen Fry, Michael Sheen and Timothy Spall.
2015 celebrated the 150th anniversary (1865-2015) of Alice in Wonderland, a timeless children’s book that has captivated children’s and parents’ imagination for generations. The story of this tale begins with its creator, Charles Ludwidge Dodgson who was a natural storyteller and regularly invented new stories to entertain his friends. He knew that for the best stories to work, the child must be at the centre of the narrative so that their imagination could be led to marvellous and wonderful places. Inspired by real events and a real child, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland was dreamt up on a summer’s day in Oxford. The river outing with the Liddell family on 4 July 1862, from Folly Bridge to Godstow, is now famous for the Alice story to which it led. He told the family a story about a bored little girl called Alice who goes looking for an adventure. The family loved it and at the end of that day, the daughter, Alice Liddell, asked for the story to be written down. Charles Dodgson agreed and began writing the manuscript the next day. It eventually took him two and a half years to complete.
In Disney’s Alice Through the Looking Glass, an all-new spectacular adventure featuring the unforgettable characters from Lewis Carroll (Dodgson’s pen name)’s beloved stories, Alice returns to the whimsical world of Underland and travels back in time to save the Mad Hatter. We are also introduced to several new characters: Zanik Hightopp (Rhys Ifans), the Mad Hatter’s father and Time himself (Sacha Baron Cohen), a peculiar creature who is part human, part clock.
The Best Book Adaptations
Nov 06 2015- Movies
- Last Updated on 06 November 2015
- Monica Costa
Here is London Mums’ list of the Best Book Adaptations. My favourite book adaptation of all times has to be Gone with the Wind. What’s your favourite one?
Film Review: He Named Me Malala
Nov 06 2015- Movies
- Last Updated on 05 November 2015
- Freda Cooper
At the London Film Festival press conference for Suffragette last month, the panel – including Meryl Streep and Carey Mulligan – were asked which contemporary women inspired them most. The answer was instantaneous and unanimous: Malala Yousafzai. The remarkable teenager’s life has been made into a documentary, one that was screened at the LFF (London Film Festival) and which arrives in cinemas from this Friday, 6 November 2015. London Mums’ film critic, Freda Cooper, finds out whether He Named Me Malala lives up to its subject.
