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
Category Archives: Rants & Raves
Female Directors - Above and beyond a call to duty
Above the Line:Practical Movie Reviews takes a moment before this year’s 85th Academy Awards Show to highlight the accomplishments of women in the entertainment industry that are frequently under-represented at awards shows. Here’s to some great female directors. Continue reading
Posted in Essays on Film, Movie I've Seen, Rants & Raves, Speak-Freely
Tagged 85th Academy Awards, Academy Award, Arts, Awards, Filmmaking, Hugh Jackman, Los Angeles, movies
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Brave (2012)
“Brave” is about knowing yourself in everything you perceive as different and the realization that the heart is as delicate as it is resilient to the wounding of experience – what the soul already knows – that neither masculine nor feminine governs us, rather an understanding and emotionally rich union of the two is at the heart of the universe. Merida comes to embody this place of tradition and transitional and in revealing the mysticism of the feminine spirit the laws of the land open to the warmth of nurtured possibility. Continue reading
Posted in Movie I've Seen, Movie Makers & Shakers, Movies You Should or Should Not See, My Review of Their Review:, On DVD, Rants & Raves
Tagged 2012 movie, above the line, Academy Award, academy award nominated film, Academy of Arts & Sciences, Animation, Billy Connolly, blogger filmmaker, Brave, Brenda Chapman, creative differences, director replaced, disney, feature-film animation, film critic, first female director, Kelly Macdonald, magic kingdom, mark andrews, Merida, movie review, pixar, Pixar’s 13th film, practical movie reviews, rory dean
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At The Movies
At the movies, that’s when I realize it’s happened again, I let my trusty guards down as soon as the fade in – that I’ve drowned in possibility at another lost chance at greatness that’s not even close to pretty goodness. Continue reading
Posted in Essays on Film, Movie I've Seen, My Review of Their Review:, philosophy and film, Rants & Raves, Speak-Freely, Uncategorized
Tagged 2012 movies, 2013 films, above the line, Arts, hollywood, Indoor Theaters, Los Angeles, movie, movie experiences, Movie theater, practical movie reviews, rory dean, theater, United States
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Commentary on Movies, History and Perspective
What we look for most often when we sit down at the movies is a prevailing sense of having gone somewhere and experienced something. We’re looking for fulfillment or some substitute for it, call them distractions from our everyday or little excursions like holidays. Continue reading
Posted in Essays on art, Essays on Film, Movie I've Seen, My Review of Their Review:, Online, philosophy and film, Rants & Raves
Tagged above the line, Academy Award, Academy Award for Best Picture, Arts, Entertainment, Film, film critic filmmaker, hollywood, hollywoodland, movie, movie rants, movies matter, practical movie reviews, Review, rory dean, why we go to the movies
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Total Recall (2012)
Arnold’s not back, he was never invited and for good reason. Total Recall is everything a good sci-fi action thriller should be and perhaps it will do better in time, after the nuclear fallout has settled, faded, surrounded some other bare naked movie. Continue reading
Posted in Blu-ray, Movie I've Seen, Movies You Should or Should Not See, My Review of Their Review:, On DVD, Online, Rants & Raves
Tagged 2012 films, above the line, action movies, bill nighy, colin farrell, Dan O'Bannon, guy ritchie, hugo award winner, Jackie Chan, Jessica Biel, John Cho, John Woo, Jon Povilk, kate beckinsale, Kurt Wimer, Kurt Wimmer, Len Wiseman, Mark Bomback, philip k. dick, practical movie reviews, robert downey jr., Ronald Shusett, rory dean, sci-fi thriller, speculative fiction, Total Recall, Underworld Evolution
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