Meet the Author - Rory Dean
-
-
Blog Catalog Sites
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: July 2010
Inception (2010)
Despite popular opinion, Christopher Nolan didn’t invent the summer blockbuster any more than he was the first person to try peanut butter and chocolate in the same bite. All the pieces are there, big named stars and gun fire, ridiculous and unbelievable plot points that don’t just bump into one another but get lost like children in a field too enamored with the cornstalks to answer when mommy calls. Continue reading
Posted in In Theaters Now!, Movie I've Seen, Movie Makers & Shakers, Movies You Should or Should Not See, On DVD, Rants & Raves, Speak-Freely
Tagged above the line, batman begins, christopher nolan, Cillian Murphy, dark knight, dark knight rises, dream thieves, dreams, ellen page, franchises, inception, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Ken Watanabe, Leonardo DiCaprio, Lukas Haas, michael caine, movie reviews, movies about dreams, Pete Postlethwaite, rory dean, summer blockbuser, tom berenger, Tom Hardy, warner bros.
23 Comments
Less Than Zero is More Than Most
Less Than Zero doesn’t pretend to reinvent the ‘doomed if you’re in the company of drugs, dead if you do them’ story. Most will agree this story isn’t new; troubled youth spiraling into various incarnations of the abyss, fueled by sex and drugs and more drugs. Yet there is something operating much deeper here, something endearing about the boundary of these particular friendships that are tested, broken and repaired in a glossy veneer of 80s pop culture. Continue reading
Collateral
Collateral is a 2004 by Michael Mann starring Tom Cruise and Jamie Foxx and while the plot is a bit simplistic, strong performances and stylish cinematography using the Viper High-Definition video camera for the majority of production elevates the film to one of the time crime thriller films of the year. At times the images seem washed out, a common problem with video cameras, though much of the night scenes and frequent spontaneous recordings benefited from the compact camera and low-light sensitivity. A must fans of the genre, Michael Mann and the starring actors. Continue reading
Is Up In The Air a Downer?
Up in the Air is not a film for everyone but it is a film that writer-director Jason Reitman hopes will spark questions about the nature of our relationships and the consequences of our decisions to connect or not connect in the digital age. Continue reading
