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Above the Line: Practical Movie Reviews- Some Safety Glass Distance (2013) May 11, 2013Writing is in my blood, it makes me feel connected to an often overwhelming sense of disconnectedness. Continue reading →rorydean
- Argo (2012) April 6, 2013So "Argo" should be on your list of movies to watch if you've missed it up to now. Be advised that the thrills come in bite-fulls and the story is much more about an ensemble cast than any one particular player. This has double feature written all over it. Pick up a couple of other movies while you're at it and if all goes South in a hurr […]rorydean
- 629 March 30, 2013This filmic is a multi-layered visual experience that takes place not in the dream-world but along the road that surrounds it. Continue reading →bleuravyn
- I Melt With You (2011) March 1, 2013“I Melt With You” feels like the mid-life rights of passage you've heard about or are living, the runway that many men land and take off from. Gathered for many drinks with the best friends of their lives quickly becomes a dangerous Bacchanalia of doomed ritualizing, darkly lit and disturbing yet familiar to anyone who has ever fallen off the beaten pat […]rorydean
- Female Directors Redux February 27, 2013Reblogged from Above the Line: Female Directors Redux - Women in Film in Hollywood and beyond After reviewing my original list "Female Directors - Above and Beyond a Call to Duty" and discussing female filmmakers with a variety of film aficionados, … Continue reading →rorydean
- Some Safety Glass Distance (2013) May 11, 2013
Monthly Archives: May 2010
Memorial Day for All – Platoon (1986)
Platoon is an epic film about life, love, death and innocence that holds up against the test of time nearly twenty-five years later. Olive Stone has surrounded us with sand bags, dug us in for the long haul. Platoon achieves what so many films have failed to do before or since – populate a world he knew intimately with characters we all can relate to in a hell we hope we’ll never have to experience ourselves and are glad so many did for us. Continue reading
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Tagged charlie sheen, john c. mcginley, keith david, kevin dillon, memorial day, move review, oliver stone, platoon, rory dean, tom berenger, vietnam, war movie, willem dafoe
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Rolling Thunder (1976) – a slow burn
Rolling Thunder is a film that you have to watch along a journey of discovery about war, especially the ramifications of the Vietnam war on soldiers returning home. Rolling Thunder is first and foremost a film of the 70′s, meaning the action sequences are dated at best, the dialog often choppy and at times unbelievable, and aside from the work the lead actors would go on to do – you’ll be best advised to watch this film late at night or at a friend’s house so you don’t have to pay for the rental fee. A nice glimpse at Tommy Lee Joins career but not a lot beyond that.
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Tagged 70's film, dissave pictures, james best, john flynn, movie reviews, pows, rolling thunder, rory dean, soliders, tommy lee jones, vietnam, william devane
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Sylvester Stallone is Jack Carter – Get Carter (2000)
Get Carter(2000) is an American crime drama starring Sylvester Stallone as a hitman with a past who returns home after the death of his brother. When he discovers foul play he sets out to take revenge on anyone who might have had a hand in his brother’s death. As a genre film the set up is pretty standard, a revenge story with marginally memorable but no less successful characters bumping about to make the wrong things right and the right things, well more right. Strong supporting performances highlight Stallone as an aging hitman with a past as director Stephen Kay shapes the original 1971 British film of the same title for modern audiences. Keep your expectations in your other pants and watch this. Continue reading
Edge of Darkness (2010) – Gibson Returns
An intense ride that keeps you guessing with original dialog and thought out characters – Edge of Darkness is a must watch for Gibson fans new and old; it’s time to put his indiscretions behind us – remember Robert Downey Jr. and his escapades? Now he’s Iron Man. Mel Gibson can be our Braveheart again if we let him. Continue reading
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Tagged danny houston, edge of darkness, martin campbell, mel gibson, movie review, rory dean
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MacGyver vs. MacGruber: Who Cares?
With $10 million dollars at stake, Relativity Media isn’t going to take this one laying down. But then again, a settlement out of court is all too familiar especially when MacGruber hits theaters today. Continue reading
Posted in In Theaters Now!, Rants & Raves
Tagged macgruber, macgyver, movie criticism, movie reviews, richard dean anderson, rory dean, snl, snl skit, zlotoff
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