• Movies/Entertainment,  Reviews

    G-S-T Review…Playing for Keeps

    Technology is evolving at such an exponential rate that movies are now made in a matter of weeks, rather than months.  Obviously there are some exceptions like Avatar and other heavy CG films.  Technology hasn’t just shortened the time it takes to produce movies, it has increased the sheer volume of movies exponentially.  In 2011 there were over 200 movies released to the theaters.  That doesn’t count straight to video movies.  In 2001 there were only 150 movies released to theaters.  Keep in mind, these stats are only for the United States.  The point is…with so many movies being released each week how do the studios keep coming up with…

  • Movies/Entertainment,  Trailers

    Sweet Trailer…'Savages'

    Oliver Stone is one of the biggest and most respected names in Hollywood. Though his last few films haven’t lived up to the films that made him famous, he’s still prety great at what he does crafting tense stories to explore with multifaceted and fractured characters. In his new film Savages, the girlfriend of two pot growers has been kidnapped by a Mexican drug cartel…I’ll stop there because as you’ll see in the trailer, it gets so much deeper and more intriguing from there. Starring the kind of ensemble that Stone films are known for, Savages has quite an impressive cast to say the least. Aaron Johnson, Taylor Kitsch, Benicio…