First of I’d like to thank Mom, Dad and Sallie Mae for making it possible for me to go on this trip. As my first study (kinda) abroad trip from Eckerd this has been a great one. Living in Park City, just minutes from Main Street for 10 days was a great growing experience. Attending the film festival and participating in all of the activities that goes with it was amazing. Never have I seen so many BlackBerrys and iPhones in one place. When new President Obama was sworn the theatre I was sitting in at 10am lit up with a blueish LCD glow from all the text messages and emails from happy friends all over the country. (more…)

The Informers, a Bret Easton Ellis and Nicholas Jarecki script directed by Gregor Jordan, is a weak B-movie. Ellis, writer of the amazing Rules of Attraction failed on this adaptation of his wack book depicting 80’s excess and vampires. A great cast was assembled for this film including Billy Bob Thornton, Kim Basinger, Winona Ryder, Mickey Rourke, Jon Foster and Amber Heard but despite great acting performances they could not save me from boredom. Jordan definitely plays up the sex and drugs with lots of nudity, sex, threesomes, pot and blow. The film shows no shame baring everything for the audience, including homoerotic relationships among friends and the onset of the great 80’s culture issues of AIDS and addiction. (more…)