Odeon - win tickets
03 March 2010
AS MAD as a hatter, the weird but wonderful world of Johnny Depp combines with a classic tale for one of the biggest film releases of the year.
Alice In Wonderland (PG), promises to be another Tim Burton masterpiece and is released this week at the Odeon in Weston.
The 2010 fantasy adventure film, written by Linda Woolverton, features an all-star line-up alongside Depp, including Mia Wasikowska, Helena Bonham Carter, Anne Hathaway, Crispin Glover, Michael Sheen and Stephen Fry.
It is an extension of the Lewis Carroll novels Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass and uses a technique of combining live action and animation.
In the film, Alice is now 19 years old and accidentally returns to wonderland, a place she previously visited 10 years ago.
She is told that she is the only one that can slay the Jabberwocky, a dragon controlled by the Red Queen.
Tim Burton's aim is to draw all the classic Alice moments together in this eagerly-anticipated number, in order to make it feel more like a story than a series of events.
Audiences everywhere will be excitedly waiting to take their seat and sample his latest offering.
* Also showing at the Odeon this week is The Lovely Bones (12A).
Based on the best-selling book by Alice Sebold and directed by Oscar winner Peter Jackson, it is the story of a 14-year-old girl from suburban Pennsylvania who is murdered by her neighbour.
She tells the whole tale from heaven, showing the lives of the people around her and how they have changed all while attempting to get someone to find her lost body.
She must weigh her desire for vengeance against her desire for her family to heal.
Oscar nominee Mark Wahlberg and winners Rachel Weisz and Susan Sarandon star in this emotional, but slightly scary tale.
* Dame Helen Mirren stars in The Last Station (15), a tale about great Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy, also showing at the Odeon in Weston this week.
After nearly 50 years of marriage, Countess Sofya (Mirren), the devoted wife of Tolstoy (Christopher Plummer), finds her world turned upside down.
In the name of his newly-created religion, the novelist has renounced his noble title, property and his family in favour of poverty, vegetarianism and celibacy.
All that after the countess has born him 13 children.
Sofya discovers that Tolstoy's trusted disciple Chertkov (Paul Giamatti) may have secretly convinced her husband to sign a new will.
She is consumed by outrage and decides to fight fiercely for what she believes is rightfully hers.
The Weston & Somerset Mercury has teamed up with the Odeon to offer five lucky readers the chance to win a pair of tickets to see a film of their choice, subject to availability.
To enter the competition, simply answer the following question: Who directed the latest Alice In Wonderland film?
Send your answer on a postcard, along with your name, address and telephone number, to: Odeon competition, Weston & Somerset Mercury, 32 Waterloo Street, Weston-super-Mare, BS23 1LW, by 10am on March 12. Alternatively, log on to www.westonmercury.co.uk to enter.
Usual Archant rules apply and the editor's decision is final. Please check availability with Weston Odeon box office before arriving with your winning tickets.