Tim Burton and Alice in Wonderland is a winning combination, that much is clear without even seeing the movie. Burton is a master of surreal and otherworldly endeavors, and a movie inspired by Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass is the perfect opportunity to create another masterpiece. And it only gets better when you factor in a winning cast that includes stars like Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Anne Hathaway, Stephen Fry, Alan Rickman and Crispin Glover.

Alice in Wonderland begins with a young Alice coming to her father, as he’s meeting with some potential business partners. He asks her if she’s had the nightmare again, and he excuses himself to escort her back to bed. She confides to him that it was the same one again, with the blue caterpillar, disappearing cat and strange world. She asks if she’s going mad, and he checks for her a moment, admits that yes, she’s bonkers, but that all the best people are…

This has been a big week for Harry Potter fans. The sixth movie in the series, Harry Potter and the Half-Blooded Prince has just been released in theaters. Once again, Steve Kloves is responsible for the screenplay, and the director is David Yates, who also directed Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix and is directing both parts of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. While the movie doesn’t capture all of the moments of the Harry Potter and the Half-Blooded Prince novel, it does a adequate job conveying the overall spirit and crucial portions.

It’s a dark time in the wizarding world. Everyone now knows that Voldemort has been resurrected, the Death Eaters are starting to wage terrorist-like attacks and a war is finally beginning. No place seems safe anymore, though Dumbledore and the staff of Hogwarts are doing their best to provide a safe learning environment.

Harry’s role in this latest movie isn’t so much a student, though he does still attend classes, play Quidditch and even fall in love. Instead, he’s an agent for Dumbledore…