Mar 24th   
Wonderland*   
(US 2003)
Lions Gate Films/Flirt Pictures. 104m. 

Porn film star John Holmes becomes implicated in the Wonderland murders in July 1981 among the drug-fueled Los Angeles underworld.
Stylized in the manner of Rashomon to show different perspectives on an unsolved murder case, and hardly a good advertisement for LA justice, but carried along in a certain glitzy nostalgia to hold the attention, and also a barely cohesive plot.

Written by: James Cox, Captain Mauzaer, Todd Samovitz, D. Loriston Scott.
Producers: Michael Paseornek, Holly Wiersma.
Director: James Cox.
Starring: Val Kilmer, Kate Bosworth, Dylan McDermott, Lisa Kudrow, Josh Lucas, Christina Applegate, Eric Bogosian, Carrie Fisher, Ted Levine, Janeane Garofalo.
Photography: Michael Grady.
Music: Cliff Martinez.

Preceded by:
A Hole Lot of Trouble*
(GB 1969. Monarch Film. 27m.; Builders dig a hole in the wrong part of the road, in this weaker but almost as engaging variation on The Plank.; w: Ian Flintoff, Francis Searle; d: Francis Searle; s: Victor Maddern, Arthur Lowe, Bill Maynard, Ken Parry, Tim Barrett; ph: Terry Maher; m: Peter Jeffries.)