If you haven't yet had a chance, why not take a trip to the flicks this week to see southeast Cornwall playing its part in Tim Burton's gothic re-imagining of Alice in Wonderland?

Currently booming at the box office, Alice in Wonderland was filmed at Antony House and Grounds near Torpoint back in 2008, with locals taking up 250 roles as the film's extras.

Starring Johnny Depp as the eccentric Mad Hatter and Helena Bonham Carter as the bulbous-headed Red Queen, the film has received positive reviews from critics since its release last week; with the Burtonesque landscape, grotesque CGI-enhanced Wonderland residents and a now teenage Alice, played with frowning confidence by Mia Wasikowska, all reframing the Victorian story for a modern cinema-going market.

Although traditionalists may find fault with the obvious deviations in plot and character as well as the somewhat unnecessary, commercially driven addition of post-production 3D, Burton's hallucinogenic vision of Lewis Carroll's fantasy world stays true, treading a fine line between dream and nightmare as a teenage Alice falls down the rabbit hole to find herself wandering in Wonderland once more.

And with familiar British voices - if not so much faces - at every turn, from Stephen Fry's smug Cheshire Cat to Matt Lucas' Tweedledum and Tweedledee, despite being a Disney blockbuster set in a make believe land, there's something delightfully English about Alice...

Oh and on that note, Antony House puts on a fine show too; a perfect real world counterpart to Burton's warped and wonderful imagination.

Alice in Wonderland is on national release now.

Watch the official trailer here