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: jeff bridges
True Grit (2010) The Real Deal
By all definition, True Grit (2010) is entertaining as well as rewarding and perhaps the most traditional film in the repertoire of the Coen’s. The characters are to the point and the dialog sharp, engaging, and poetic. It is easy to see their progression from No Country For Old Men (2007), a sort of modern day western about good guys and bad guys and justice. True Grit affords the brothers a chance to explore the gradation of character in more readily available personages, people you might know or in the least relate to without losing specificity and substance. If this film is a demarcation for the Coen brothers, a decisive interest in characters not so unlike us, it will prove to broaden their already significant and rightful presence among the best filmmakers of the past quarter century. Continue reading
Posted in In Theaters Now!, Movie I've Seen, Movies You Should or Should Not See
Tagged above the line, charles portis, coen, ethan coen, hailee steinfeld, henry hathaway, jeff bridges, joel coen, john wayne, kim darby, matt damon, mattie ross, movie reviews, roger ebert true grit, rooster cogburn, rory dean, ruben j. rooster cogburn, true grit, western genre, western movie reviews, western movies, westerns
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Crazy Heart (2009)
Crazy Heart is the story of an aging, broken dreamer who is forced to change his ways and in doing so reminds us of ourselves. This is not a story about greatness but a story about one man with a guitar coming from some place honest.
Posted in On DVD
Tagged jeff bridges, Maggie Gyllenhaal, movie reviews, Robert Duvall, rory dean, Scott Cooper
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