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Why hello all, bet you though I was done with this stupid thing.... Well too bad for you I am not!

But is has been well over a month since I have given you all a solid update on what it going on with me. In one of my most recent posts I had mentioned that I was going to be eating much healthier and exercising more this summer. Well I have been doing that. I have lost about 20 lbs (fluctuates on how much I eat in a day) and lost a few inches on the circumference of a few parts of my body. So that is really good, but I seem to have plateaued a little bit, as I am not really losing any more, but I am not gaining any more, so in the end it is all good.

So in other aspects of my life I have quite a large list of movies and books that I would like to see and read. Because of that I want to share what I read and see as I enjoy them, so I am going to start posting review of them. Take them as you will, but I do not work this summer, so I have a lot of free time on my hands, and this takes up time.

So the first movie I am going to write about is Malice in Wonderland. Malice is a modern retelling of the classic Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. As with all retellings of some are good and some are bad. Not quite sure how this one matches up. I have read the source material for this movie, and it stacks up decently. With all of the publicity that Alice is getting right now due to the new Tim Burton/Disney that came out earlier this year, different tellings were bound to happen, although this one came out in 2009, so I don't know whats up with that.

As far as everything goes this one had a very similar feeling to SyFy's Alice that came out last December but this one is way more trippy. The set direction/costumes/cinematography were interesting to say the least. Set in London's underworld with the cast being the lords and thugs in this world. The characters got a very interesting take on them... Alice is of course Alice, though older and American. The White Rabbit is a cab driver called Whitey who has a much larger part in this telling than in the others, The Red Queen is a gay crime boss who is male, the caterpillar is pretty much the same, but is a druggie, and lastly the Mad Hatter is the owner of a mobile brothel, who is female... all of this is interesting. In all reality, the characters felt very real to me, but they all had the same drive, instead of each having their own individual one.

All in all this it at least worth a watch if you are an Alice fan like me. I would never say it is the best version of Alice out there, but you can be the judge in that. Overall a generous 3/5.

Peace!