Lewis Carroll sent Alice through the looking glass in 1872, and the idea has lived large in the world's imagination ever since... and Hollywood took the idea of falling through the doorway between worlds and ran with it. Of course this led to adaptations of the Alice legends (the oldest one we have in the store is surreal 1933 Alice in Wonderland, up to the imaginatively strange Jan Svankmajer Alice), but even beyond the literal adaptations, the idea has informed many, many movies over the years.
These Alice-influenced films make up Reckless Video's current Spotlight Section, including everything from the more literal fairytales like Hallmark's The 10th Kingdom or Neil Gaiman's Mirrormask to science fiction epics that incorporate looking-glass elements (like The Matrix or Tron) and even the horror movies like like The Shining's obsession with panning through mirrors or The Decent's continuing journey down the rabbit hole. The section ranges from Labyrinth's more traditional little-girl-lost to the high minded internalism of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, and everything in between... and keep an eye out for the SyFy miniseries Alice in our New Releases.
It's an ever changing cinematic world out ther, and Reckless Video's Spotlight section puts special attention on the movies that reflect what's happening right now. From a trend that's being popularized by a new, big budget release to a star that's grabbing headlines to movies that simply focus on a particular time of year, Reckless will single these films together for the easy access of something that needs a spotlight shone.
