Meet the Author - Rory Dean
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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: December 2010
I’m Still Here (2010) So Who Cares?
Perhaps most problematic about the film I’m Still Here, is that the movie lacks a cohesiveness that uses drug and alcohol fueled tirades by Joaquin Phoenix about art and Hollywood, about commerce and creativity to populate otherwise uninteresting hotel rooms and guest houses; I almost half expected to see Roman Polanski appear ala Chinatown in a Fedora looking for a way out as Joaquin tried in vain to convince him to join them for a chat along chain link fence spotted with Warhol-esque screen prints. Continue reading
Posted in Movie I've Seen, Movies You Should or Should Not See, My Review of Their Review:, On DVD, Rants & Raves, Speak-Freely
Tagged above the line, casey affleck, danny glover, documentary, I'm still here, joaquin phoenix, mocumentary, movie review, roger ebert reviews I'm still here, rory dean, sean combs
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Cyrus (2010)
Cyrus is the kind of movie your friends make and you feel obligated to sit through and they don’t serve free popcorn. How and why this film got made in the first place is the legend that is Hollywood. Continue reading
How to Review the low-to-no-budget Independent Film
The blog-o-sphere is strewn with movie reviewers, bloggers, and armchair critics who all have a different opinion about the process of writing about movies. Some take the approach of good or bad, while others get lost in the minutiae of the film stock (or latest high-tech video camera) used by the cinematographer or the pros and cons of a digital intermediate to the overall aesthetic contribution to the look and feel of the film. Others keep company with opinion. So you might ask, how does one Review the low-to-no-budget independent film? Continue reading
