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: August 2011
Small Town Murder Songs (2011)
Everything about Small Town Murder Songs is cared for, considered; movies like this beg the question, why aren’t more films loved so? Gass-Donnelly gives every frame something special, eloquence and metaphor, a way of meaning two or three things connected by long takes and a striking soundtrack that is, at times troubling, invasive; there is a sense he does not want to leave anything to chance, assuring mood and pace at all costs. Continue reading
Source Code (2011)
Source Code baffles, stutter-steps to make every second count but fails, repeatedly. Tangled like an exercise in plot mechanics, Source Code plods like a blueprint manufactured during Hollywood boardroom hash parties and thirty second elevator pitches that end with a ‘ding’. Continue reading
Posted in Movie I've Seen, Movies You Should or Should Not See, On DVD, Rants & Raves
Tagged above the line movies, ben ripley, Déjà Vu movies, Don Burgess, duncan jones, Jake Gyllenhaal, Jeffrey Wright, Michelle Monaghan, movies of 2011, practical movie reviews, rory dean, sci-fi thriller, source code, Vera Farmiga
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