Mia Wasikowska in Alice Through the Looking Glass. Photograph: Allstar/DisneyMia Wasikowska in Alice Through the Looking Glass. Photograph: Allstar/DisneyWalt Disney CompanyAfter decades of selling young girls damsels in distress, Disney has finally made a run of films with strong female roles. It’s just a shame it took them so long A lot of the talk surrounding Alice Through the Looking Glass, the sequel to the 2010 hit Alice in Wonderland, is centring on whether the film can survive the departure of Tim Burton from the director’s chair, whether Sacha Baron Cohen can pull off another attempt at an orthodox acting role, or whether the project can overcome the near-wholesale jettisoning of the delicate charm of the Lewis Carroll original.

Self and wellbeingLife and styleReview I’d spent years in a tearful cycle of shame and anxiety about my possessions and didn’t understand why – until I got help I’ve bought my fifth ball gown today and although I don’t need it – and I’m not convinced the waistband would actually zip up around my thigh – I’m definitely going to buy it. It’s an absolute steal at £30 when the price tag indicates it was originally £700.

DesignThe cool glamour of Orry-Kelly’s costumes saw him pick up three Oscars and a host of A-list Hollywood confidantes from Cary Grant to Bette Davis Bette Davis wouldn’t make a film without him; with Marilyn Monroe he had tête-à-têtes and private jokes between takes. Despite this – and perhaps because of his tremendous discretion – Orry-Kelly, the Academy award-winning costume designer born in the Australian surfing town of Kiama, has always been something of a mystery.

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SoccerInterviewRay Hudson: ‘I was in love with America before I even came to the United States’Tom KludtThe magisterial football commentator opens up about his long, strange American trip and the steady rise of soccer in the US Ray Hudson will always be a Geordie, but America claimed his heart long ago. As a kid growing up in Tyneside, Hudson, was drawn to the pop culture of the United States, its movies and television.