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
Tag Archives: above the line movie reviews
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This filmic is a multi-layered visual experience that takes place not in the dream-world but along the road that surrounds it. Continue reading
Country Strong (2010)
Country Strong succeeds despite every reason that it bogs down with needing to be everything for everyone and only really touching those who long to see specific heroes on the screen; these happen to wear cowboy hats and trip up easily, people singing about living, loving and moving on. At the end of it all when the lights fade to black and the relationships are either healed or fractured further, when love changes a little or not at all, when the once faded shines one last time and innocence avoids the pitfall just this time, Country Strong is just that because. Continue reading
Posted in Movie I've Seen, Movies You Should or Should Not See, On DVD
Tagged above the line movie reviews, country music movies, country singer movies, country strong, crazy heart, gwyneth paltrow, merle haggard, movies of 2010, nashville, practical movie reviews, rory dean, shana feste, tammy wynette, tim mcgraw, waylan jennings
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For Colored Girls (2010)
For Colored Girls is neither an ode to nor celebration of the original play and while it proclaims to, “paint an unforgettable portrait of what it means to be a woman of color in the modern world” it feels more like the convoluted outline to the important film it might have been. Continue reading
Posted in Movie I've Seen, Movies You Should or Should Not See, On DVD
Tagged above the line movie reviews, alexander gruszynski, anika noni rose, choreopoem, for colored girls, for colored girls who have considered suicide when the rainbow is enuf, janet jackson, kerry washington, kimberly elise, lionsgate films, loretta devine, movie reviews, movies 2010, movies of 2009, ntozake shange, phylicia rashad, practical movie reviews, rory dean, thandie newton, tps presents, tyler perry, whoopi goldberg
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Jonah Hex (2010)
While Jonah Hex blends genres, incorporates animated sequences with live action to modest interest, it is clear from the onset that the end product, heavily and clumsily edited, is a shell of what it started out to be. Continue reading
Resident Evil: Afterlife (2010) Franchi$e
Resident Evil: Afterlife is a zombie infested, disaster stricken wasteland flick and for many is queen of the B-Movie turned A-movie cash cow, delivering on its promise to overwhelm your senses with action, gore, and zombie annihilation. Ad reads: one gun-toting heroine loner seeks lone survivors in biologically unstable neighborhood, rent negotiable. Continue reading
Posted in In Theaters Now!, Movie I've Seen, Movies You Should or Should Not See
Tagged above the line movie reviews, afterlife, Ali Larter, and Boris Kodjoe, milla jovovich, paul w.s anderson, real3D, resident evil, resident evil franchise, rory dean, Wentworth Miller, zombie flicks, zombie movies
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