Alice

Alice Rohrwacher’s new film is a beguiling fantasy-comedy of lost love: garrulous, uproarious and celebratory in her absolutely distinctive style. It’s a movie bustling and teeming with life, with characters fighting, singing, thieving and breaking the fourth wall to address us directly. As with her previous film Happy As Lazzaro, Rohrwacher homes in on a poignant sense of Italy as a treasure house of past glories, a necropolitan culture of ancient excellence. It can be plundered for the present day artefacts and spirits…

In Mary Nighy's delicately observed feature debut Alice, Darling, Anna Kendrick's titular character pulls strands of her own hair so tightly around her fingers that it breaks into little shreds. She's slowly spiralling. On the outside, it shows like Alice has got it all. A steady career, some friends and a caring boyfriend. Look a little closer and her Alice pulls you in an unshakable rhythm of erosion of her well-being. (Also read: The Little Mermaid review: Disney’s most soulless, pointless live-action remake yet)…

Mulan, 101 Dalmatians, Beauty and the Beast, The Little Mermaid, and Maleficent are all on the list.Image: DisneyDisney is a company that always looks at its past to find its future. It brings back characters, concepts, stories, and more; time and time again, it attempts to transport you back to the way you felt when you were a little kid. That’s always been Disney’s thing. But, for the last 15 years or so, it’s been going a step further and remaking its classic animated movies in live-action, which had been a very…

Although I’m now just a few screen taps away from watching nearly every Disney animated movie ever released, this new Lego set, featuring a brick-built recreation of a VHS copy of The Little Mermaid, is making me nostalgic for a time when my shelves were stacked with plastic tapes of my favorite Disney films.This Week's Toys Are Straight From a Multiverse of Marketing MadnessLego tends to always put its focus on the protagonists of its licensed properties, giving them the biggest and best sets (although it does have an…

Welcome back to Toy Aisle, io9's regular round-up of the coolest toy news. This week’s toys include Lego continuing to drop more Disney 100 treats, Hot Toys flexing for The Dark Knight movies, and a colossal Jurassic World dino. Check it out!A Transformer Is Headed to the MoonImage: LegoLego Disney 100 Years of Disney Animation IconsReminiscent of Lego’s Brick Sketches line, but on a smaller scale, this 1,022-piece Disney Animation Icons art set includes hundreds of tiny tile pieces and 12 8x8-stud plates that can be…

Boom Studios brings a new BRZRKR, a return to Wonderland with Alice Never After and Sirens Of The City for their July 2023 solicits.Boom Studios brings a new BRZRKR from Steve Skroce, a return to Wonderland on Alice Never After from Dan Panosian and Giorgio Spalletta, and the publication of Sirens Of The City by Joanne Starer and Khary Randolph all in Boom Studios solicitations in July 2023, alongside Power Rangers, Buffy, Firefly and the usual. SIRENS OF THE CITY #1 (OF 6) CVR A RANDOLPH BOOM!…

One February night in 1943, a fire broke out at a Catholic orphanage in Ireland. Thirty-five girls became trapped and died; the cook also lost her life. Every nun survived. An inquiry the same year reported appalling mistakes. The Sisters had requested that the fire be put out before the children were evacuated. The fire brigade was slow to respond and finally arrived with inadequate equipment. No one was found to blame.In the remarkable title story of this debut collection, the dead girls narrate the tale of this…

Alice Oseman has confirmed that Heartstopper Volume 5 will be released on the 9th of November, 2023 and that there will be a Volume 6.Alice Oseman has confirmed that Heartstopper Volume 5 will be released on the 9th of November, 2023 – in the UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand at least, and the 12th of December in the USA and Canada – and also surprised readers of her comic with the news there will be a Volume 6 as well, the definite final volume that she previously said Volume 5 would be. Alice Oseman posted a video…

Veteran game designer American McGee has shared that he will be stepping away from game development, following Electronic Arts (EA) turning down his pitch to create Alice: Asylum. For several years, McGee has been pursuing the creation of Alice: Asylum; a continuation of the American McGee’s Alice adventure series. However, the rights to the game are held by EA — and in a blog published on Saturday (April 8), McGee shared that after talks with EA, the company has turned down his long-running pitch for the game and…

Barack Obama’s 2008 election victory gave a jubilant opening to Diana Evans’s third novel, Ordinary People; the horrific Grenfell tragedy begins the sequel-of-sorts, A House for Alice. The blaze is described as “a massacre by negligence, a criminal activity, a corporate atrocity, an obliteration of families”. Evans imagines the fire with a righteous rage rarely seen in British contemporary fiction. The narration is nobly elegiac, too, envisioning in the flames “families rich in entireties of love wars remembered and seas…