Alice In Wonderland

Alice In Wonderland

Hard to believe but February is already drawing to a close and March is just around the corner. So what will you be watching next month?

We have had the likes of The Princess and the Frog, The Wolfman and Valentine's Day grace the big screen over the last few weeks but March brings us the first must see movies of the year.

So here at FemaelFirst we take a look at some of the films that you really cannot miss over the next few weeks.

Alice In Wonderland: yes the latest collaboration from Tim Burton and Johnny Depp, who haven't worked together since Sweeney Todd, is finally here.

Despite facing some boycott issues due to a reduced theatrical run this is the first absolute must see of 2010.

As you might expect an outstanding cast has been brought together including Depp, Helen Bonham Carter, Anne Hathaway, Matt Lucas and Michael Sheen as well as introducing Mia Wasikowska.

Alice Kingsleigh (Wasikowska) is now 19 years old and destined to be married to a rich suitor. When she runs off into the grounds of a Victorian estate at a party thrown in her honour, she once again stumbles down a rabbit hole into the magical world she first discovered as a young girl.

But things have changed since Alice's last visit, with the Red Queen (Carter) having taken over 'Underland'. It's up to Alice to slay the Jabberwock that guards her evil empire and restore peace.

Alice in Wonderland is released 5th March

Legion: Scott Stewart is back in the director's chair for only the second time for his latest movie Legion, a movie which sees Paul Bettany return to the big screen.

And it's a bit of a change of pace for Bettany as he finds himself as an action hero, he is playing angel Michael who comes to the aid of mankind.

When God finally loses faith in mankind, he sends a terrifying legion of angels to bring on the Apocalypse. Humanity's only hope lies in a group of strangers trapped in the eatery, including owner Bob Hanson (Dennis Quaid) and his son.

Michael, who is expelled from heaven, is on a mission to find Charlie (Adrianne Palicki), a young, pregnant waitress he believes is carrying the new messiah capable of safeguarding the future of humankind.

But with his brother and nemesis Gabriel (Kevin Durrand) determined to carry out God's extermination orders, the holy mother of all showdowns is about to erupt.

Legion is released 5th March

Green Zone: while a fourth Bourne movie may be on the rocks Matt Damon and Paul Greengrass reunite this month for war movie Green Zone.

Yes I appreciate that it's another Iraq based movie but this one looks like a corker and could follow in the footsteps of The Hurt Locker.

This is the third time that Damon has worked with British filmmaker Greengrass and their collaborations are always exciting.

After the fall of Saddam Hussein and the US occupation of Baghdad, Roy Miller (Damon) leads a team hunting for weapons of mass destruction. With his specialised skills and combat experience, Miller is considered the perfect man to carry out the search in this unstable region.

But Miller is hampered by faulty intelligence and the nagging suspicion that he is on a futile quest. Liaising with Wall Street reporter Lawrie Dayne (Amy Ryan) and a sympathetic agent named Brown (Brendon Gleeson), he sets out to find the origins of the weapons' main source - a sneaky agent known as Magellan.

It's great to see Damon mixing and matching his roles with The Informant, Invictus, Ponyo and now Green Zone in recent months.

Green Zone is released 12th March

Shutter Island: March is all about the actor/director collaborations as Martin Scorsese once again hooks up with Leonardo DiCaprio for Shutter Island

Yes it's the fourth time that the pair have worked together and the first time since their Oscar winning movie The Departed.

It's great to see Leo back on the big screen as he hasn't been in a movie since Revolutionary Road at the beginning of last year.

It looked like Shutter Island was never going to hit the big screen after a string of push backs, which unfortunately sees it miss out for Oscar selection.

In 1954, US marshals Teddy Daniels (DiCaprio) and Chuck Aule (Mark Ruffalo) are ordered to investigate the disappearance of a patient from a mental hospital on Shutter Island, a remote outcrop some 11 miles off the coast of Boston.

The missing patient is Rachel Solando (Emily Mortimer), a murderess who seems to have defied the high security in the hospital and vanished into thin air.

As Teddy begins his investigation, he starts to unearth some sinister goings on but it becomes clear that nobody, including the hospital's enigmatic chief (Ben Kingsley), is willing to talk.

When a hurricane hits Shutter Island, more inmates manage to escape and Teddy becomes trapped.

Now plagued by terrifying visions and doubting everything, including his partner, Teddy begins to question his sanity and fears he'll never make it off the island alive.

Shutter Island is released 12th March.

The Blind Side: is Sandra Bullock going to win the Oscar for her performance in this film? With the Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild awards under her belt she is a heavy favourite.

It's a major change of pace for the actress as she takes on a really dramatic role leaving the comedy temporarily behind her.

And it seems to be paying off as her performance has been the toast of the awards circuit over the last few weeks.

This month we finally get the chance to see what everyone is raving about as The Blind Side hits the big screen.

The Academy loves a true story, and that's exactly what this is. The Blind Side depicts the remarkable true story of Michael Oher, a homeless African-American youngster from a broken home, taken in by the Touhys, a well-to-do white family who help him fulfil his potential.

At the same time, Oher's presence in the Touhys' lives leads them to some insightful self-discoveries of their own.

Living in his new environment, the teen faces a completely different set of challenges to overcome.

As a football player and student, Oher works hard and, with the help of his coaches and adopted family, becomes one of the top high school football prospects in the country

The Blind Side is released 26th March.

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Hard to believe but February is already drawing to a close and March is just around the corner. So what will you be watching next month?

We have had the likes of The Princess and the Frog, The Wolfman and Valentine's Day grace the big screen over the last few weeks but March brings us the first must see movies of the year.

So here at FemaelFirst we take a look at some of the films that you really cannot miss over the next few weeks.

Alice In Wonderland: yes the latest collaboration from Tim Burton and Johnny Depp, who haven't worked together since Sweeney Todd, is finally here.

Despite facing some boycott issues due to a reduced theatrical run this is the first absolute must see of 2010.

As you might expect an outstanding cast has been brought together including Depp, Helen Bonham Carter, Anne Hathaway, Matt Lucas and Michael Sheen as well as introducing Mia Wasikowska.

Alice Kingsleigh (Wasikowska) is now 19 years old and destined to be married to a rich suitor. When she runs off into the grounds of a Victorian estate at a party thrown in her honour, she once again stumbles down a rabbit hole into the magical world she first discovered as a young girl.

But things have changed since Alice's last visit, with the Red Queen (Carter) having taken over 'Underland'. It's up to Alice to slay the Jabberwock that guards her evil empire and restore peace.

Alice in Wonderland is released 5th March

Legion: Scott Stewart is back in the director's chair for only the second time for his latest movie Legion, a movie which sees Paul Bettany return to the big screen.

And it's a bit of a change of pace for Bettany as he finds himself as an action hero, he is playing angel Michael who comes to the aid of mankind.

When God finally loses faith in mankind, he sends a terrifying legion of angels to bring on the Apocalypse. Humanity's only hope lies in a group of strangers trapped in the eatery, including owner Bob Hanson (Dennis Quaid) and his son.

Michael, who is expelled from heaven, is on a mission to find Charlie (Adrianne Palicki), a young, pregnant waitress he believes is carrying the new messiah capable of safeguarding the future of humankind.

But with his brother and nemesis Gabriel (Kevin Durrand) determined to carry out God's extermination orders, the holy mother of all showdowns is about to erupt.

Legion is released 5th March

Green Zone: while a fourth Bourne movie may be on the rocks Matt Damon and Paul Greengrass reunite this month for war movie Green Zone.

Yes I appreciate that it's another Iraq based movie but this one looks like a corker and could follow in the footsteps of The Hurt Locker.

This is the third time that Damon has worked with British filmmaker Greengrass and their collaborations are always exciting.

After the fall of Saddam Hussein and the US occupation of Baghdad, Roy Miller (Damon) leads a team hunting for weapons of mass destruction. With his specialised skills and combat experience, Miller is considered the perfect man to carry out the search in this unstable region.

But Miller is hampered by faulty intelligence and the nagging suspicion that he is on a futile quest. Liaising with Wall Street reporter Lawrie Dayne (Amy Ryan) and a sympathetic agent named Brown (Brendon Gleeson), he sets out to find the origins of the weapons' main source - a sneaky agent known as Magellan.

It's great to see Damon mixing and matching his roles with The Informant, Invictus, Ponyo and now Green Zone in recent months.

Green Zone is released 12th March

Shutter Island: March is all about the actor/director collaborations as Martin Scorsese once again hooks up with Leonardo DiCaprio for Shutter Island

Yes it's the fourth time that the pair have worked together and the first time since their Oscar winning movie The Departed.

It's great to see Leo back on the big screen as he hasn't been in a movie since Revolutionary Road at the beginning of last year.

It looked like Shutter Island was never going to hit the big screen after a string of push backs, which unfortunately sees it miss out for Oscar selection.

In 1954, US marshals Teddy Daniels (DiCaprio) and Chuck Aule (Mark Ruffalo) are ordered to investigate the disappearance of a patient from a mental hospital on Shutter Island, a remote outcrop some 11 miles off the coast of Boston.


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