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: dark knight rises
Dark Knight Rises (2012)
DKR is not the worst comic book movie or end to a trilogy in recent memory but the fact that it’s over might just be its greatest achievement. It is long-winded and cluttered with the usual crippling redundancies, overdone explanations leave little to the imagination or curtail simple discovery while story is relegated to a cardboard box stuffed with convoluted action sequences and the plodding melodrama of PG13 blah. I could spend an entire article on the ills of the MPAA and the PG13 rating system and the directors who have gotten drunk on the Kool-Aid. 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, philosophy and film, Rants & Raves, Speak-Freely
Tagged above the line, Arts, batman, batman begins, Belmont Park, christopher nolan, dark knight, dark knight rises, Elvis Presley, heath ledger, Nolan, practical movie reviews, rory dean, Tom Hardy, trilogy
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Batman: America’s James Bond
Bond and Wayne are iconic figures that cross in and out of fantasy to reveal our secret desires and worst nightmares, the men who take charge to right all the wrongs in the world in exaggerated, often overblown and virtually incomprehensible ways that somehow manage to fuel our tampered down sensibilities with a pressure cooker release valve. It is this link to that which explodes in us everyday but must be wrestled to order, to the broken people and far away places we need to believe in that we can all come together in the form of supermen heroes that rescue without question and save us from ourselves. Continue reading
Posted in Essays on Film, Movie Makers & Shakers, On DVD, Online, philosophy and film, Rants & Raves, Speak-Freely
Tagged 007, above the line, america's james bond, batman, batman & Robin, bill finger, blockbusters, bob kane, Britain's batman, bruce wayne, burtons batman, christopher nolan, comic book adaptations, daniel craig, daniel craig olympics, dark knight, dark knight rises, dc comics, film criticism, film theory, gotham city, ian fleming, international man of mystery, james bond, license to kill, practical movie reviews, rory dean, schumacher, shaken not stirred martini, skyfall
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Inception (2010) Blu-ray
Perhaps that is the answer after all is said and done, the true marker of accomplishment and success of a film, is that it lives in the audience gathered, the moments of it. Inception is not simply what is seen or what exists in whatever form it takes for you – theDVDor Blu-ray or the Digital Download, it is a fleeting reflection, the light flittering 24 frames of truth or something like it, experiences that ultimately affect us even if only briefly, a little bit, the emotional buoyancy of possibility. Continue reading
Posted in Blu-ray, Blu-ray Elite for Warner Home Video, Movie I've Seen, Movies You Should or Should Not See, My Review of Their Review:, On DVD, Online, philosophy and film, Rants & Raves, Speak-Freely
Tagged 2010 movies, above the line, batman begins, blockbusters, Blu-ray Elite for Warner Home Video, christopher nolan, Cillian Murphy, dark knight rises, dream thieves, dreamscapes, ellen page, franchise, inception, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Ken Watanabe, Leonardo DiCaprio, marion cotillard, practical movie reviews, rory dean, the dark knight, Tom Hardy, warner bros.
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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.
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