My ten day stay in Park City was an experience I won’t soon forget. Though I have no other winter terms to compare it to - yes, God help me I’m a freshman - it was the perfect blend of an exciting and relaxing trip. I dedicated myself to doing nothing but movie hopping, and the result was a (to me) staggering 25 films viewed during the trip. Thinking them all over there were definite front runners. Movies that resounded to me as a viewer for their original plot lines, jokes, filmmaking and informative q and a. For my own amusement, I tried to rate my 25 films from favorite to least, for there were also some movies that completely missed the mark! (more…)

Adam Salky’s Dare tells the story of three troubled teens struggling to make it through the extremely dramatic years of high school. The story might at first seem a little conventional, but Dare ventures into some new territory by focusing the plot on a love triangle between two boys and one girl. Ben and Alexa have both been best friends since they were young, but soon the two find a rift in their relationship when they are both interested in Johnny Drake, one of the most popular and attractive guys in the school. Alexa seems eager to grow up, and though she dislikes Johnny at first, she forces herself to become intimate with him and becomes very attached in the process. Ben also becomes very attached to Johnny after a drunken night with him, which threatens to destroy his friendship with Alexa.

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