Make no mistake, Alice in Wonderland is easily Tim Burton's worst film since Planet of the Apes, and its failures bring into question just what kind of filmmaker he wants to be in the next phase of his career.

Despite his reputation as the mainstream representation of the outcast, Tim Burton is no stranger to box office records. This weekend was another trip to the record books as Alice in Wonderland propelled to $116.3 million.

What bugged me most about the awards season is how so many pundits tried to turn James Cameron into the big male bully and Bigelow into some helpless female victim of his oppression.

Numbers like this will not dissuade Burton from doing more 're-imaginings' of whatever famous property next gets the greenlight. Congrats to the Disney team that produced this one. Oh wait, they were fired several months ago. Whoops.

Apparently the bosses at Burbank have concluded that the sole reason for the underwhelming box office haul of The Princess and the Frog was that the word 'princess' scared away the boys.

Is The Green Zone a true liberal screed? Not really. Like a lot of recent films that are tagged as liberal, the film deals with moral absolutes and is tagged as left-wing by those who would disagree with the scenarios at play.

There was a multitude of new wide and limited releases this weekend, but the top of the box office remained the same, if only for one more weekend. Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland again claimed the top spot.

Why must there be a love interest in franchise pictures? Why can't guy-centric pictures make a choice to either create a female lead worth giving a crap about or simply be honest and exclude women altogether?

The Runaways, purporting to chronicle the quick rise and fall of the first popular American all-girl rock band, has little to say and little to justify its existence

This weekend's number one film was Dreamworks Animation's How to Train Your Dragon, which opened in 2D, 3D, and IMAX 3D theaters.

It's a rare thing to get generally decent reviews, open to $62 million, slowly but surely cross $200 million domestic and $500 million worldwide, win a Golden Globe for lead actor and still end up with no respect.

The story isn't exactly groundbreaking -- you can probably chart out most (but not all) of the major developments before they occur, but the film is done with such high style and sheer quality that the well-worn myth becomes new again.