ALICE IN WONDERLAND (PG)

TIM Burton brings us a grown-up Alice (Mia Wasikowska) returning to the rabbit hole and the bizarre world of her Wonderland dreams. Starring Johnny Depp as the Mad Hatter, Helena Bonham Carter as the Red Queen and Anne Hathaway as her White counterpart. Showing at Clwyd Theatr Cymru in Mold from Friday-Monday.

STAR RATING: ***

FATHER OF MY CHILDREN (12A)

ACTRESS Mia Hansen-Love turns director with this tale inspired by the life of a French film producer. Initially focused on the chaotic life of the charming Gregoire who frantically juggles his art, work and young family, the film’s emphasis shifts to his wife Sylva as she tries to manage a huge change in their lives. Showing at Clwyd Theatr Cymru in Mold on Tuesday and Wednesday.

STAR RATING: ***

GET HIM TO THE GREEK (15)

AFTER years of dizzying success, rock star Aldous Snow (Russell Brand) releases the album African Child, which is lambasted by critics. Soon after, the singer breaks up with his girlfriend and falls into disrepute in London. During a meeting with record company supremo Sergio (Sean Combs), underling Aaron Green (Jonah Hill) hits upon the idea of a 10th anniversary comeback concert to celebrate Snow’s most famous live outing at the Greek Theatre in Los Angeles. Despite initial reservations, Sergio eventually agrees and issues his minion with an ultimatum: “From the moment you touch down, you have 72 hours to get Aldous Snow to the Greek”. Unfortunately, Aldous loves to party, leading to a series of debauched encounters that jeopardise Aaron’s relationship with his girlfriend.

STAR RATING: ***

KILLERS (12A)

IF ROBERT Luketic’s action-packed romantic comedy is to be believed men are capable of hiding everything from their nearest and dearest. The film’s charming hero meets, woos and marries the woman of his dreams without revealing a vital part of his genetic make-up. Jen Kornfeldt (Katherine Heigl) marries Spencer Aimes (Ashton Kutcher). Spencer has been keeping a tiny secret: he is an international spy and assassin, who retired from active duty but has now been marked for death. Killers is an odd mishmash of genres, veering wildly from action to comedy and back again, sometimes in a single scene. Kutcher and Heigl are far better than the screenplay.

STAR RATING: **

LETTERS TO JULIET (PG)

WRITER Sophie (Amanda Seyfried) is poised to marry chef Victor (Gale Garcia Bernal). They embark on a trip to Italy. She visits Juliet’s famous balcony and is surprised to see dozens of tourists penning letters to the ill-fated Capulet. A group of women known as the secretaries of Juliet collect the missives and reply to these love-sick strangers. Sophie offers to help and stumbles upon a long-lost note which demands her words of wisdom. The American is shocked when a snooty man arrives in Verona to berate the secretaries for encouraging his grandmother to seek out her soul mate from all those years ago.

STAR RATING: ***

NO ONE KNOWS ABOUT PERSIAN CATS (12A)

BAHMAN Ghobadi directs this semi-fictional tale of Tehran’s indie rock scene forced underground by government bans and harsh prison sentences. Two musicians plan to escape to London but before they go, decide to play one more gig in their home country. Showing at Clwyd Theatr Cymru in Mold on Tuesday and Wednesday.

STAR RATING: ***

WHATEVER WORKS (12A)

AGEING curmudgeon, Boris Yellnikoff (Larry David) allows pretty runaway Melodie St Ann Celestine (Evan Rachel Wood) to spend the night on his couch rather than sleep rough on the streets. One night turns into one week and then one month as friendship blossoms between Boris and his perky new housemate. Companionship becomes genuine affection and Melodie gradually re-shapes her views on the world to mimic Boris. They marry. Then her parents Marietta (Patricia Clarkson) and John (Ed Begley Jr) turn up on Boris’s doorstep and throw the couple’s routine into disarray. Marietta feels her daughter should find love with someone younger and she sets about playing Cupid between Melodie and handsome suitor, Randy James (Henry Cavill).

STAR RATING: ***

WHEN IN ROME (PG)

BETH (Kristen Bell) is a curator at the Guggenheim Museum in New York. She is desperate to impress her tough boss, Celeste (Anjelica Huston). Celeste puts Beth in charge of the annual Circle Of Gold Gala with a stark warning that should anything go wrong, it will be the end of a burgeoning career. In the middle of preparations, Beth travels to Rome, where she is instantly attracted to accident-prone sports writer Nick (Josh Duhamel), only to see the hunk kissing another woman. Feeling depressed, Beth wades into the famed Fountain Of Love and drunkenly snatches up a handful of coins and a poker chip. As if by magic, the men who threw the tokens into the fountain all fall under Beth’s spell and they vigorously pursue her.

STAR RATING: **

WILD TARGET (12A)

THIS comedy caper is a real romp on the big screen, and one you simply cannot help getting swept away with. Bill Nighy stars as Victor Maynard, a meticulous, lethally efficient, middle-aged and unmarried assassin under the thumb of his domineering mother, simply referred to as Mother (played brilliantly by Eileen Atkins). Emily Blunt is the reckless thief Rose, aiming for the ultimate art con who makes a phone call to Victor as soon as he realises he’s been duped. Victor sets out to perform the deadly hit in a car park but finds himself unable to kill her.

STAR RATING: ***