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: movies of 2011
Drive (2011)
Calculated and precise, flawed, a vision with cojones and Albert Brooks kills someone. You maybe don’t even realize how connected you are until the first scene ends, the first glimpse into this world holds your every second, turns you into the perfect hamster waiting at the cage door of your life for the next meal of gerbil bullets. Refn holds the bag and you start to salivate and then it dawns on you that you’re OK with waiting as long as Refn makes every movie for the rest of your life. Continue reading
Posted in Movie I've Seen, Movie Makers & Shakers, Movies You Should or Should Not See, On DVD
Tagged above the line, Albert Brooks, carey mulligan, dissave pictures, drive, fuel action, Hossein Amini, James Sallis, man and gun, movies of 2011, nicolas winding refn, omniscient god, practical movie reviews, Ron Perlman, rory dean, ryan gosling
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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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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 (2011)
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 earns bragging rights as the highest midnight opening, weekend opening and global opening weekend film of all time – all time! There are surely other records, those yet counted and those yet to come but there’s plenty of time for counting and collecting receipts. Though hard pressed to give up their title, Potter fans have even surpassed the long distance marathon of Trekdom – Next stop, pottermore. Continue reading
The Adjustment Bureau (2011)
The Adjustment Bureau is the kind of film that makes the fast forward button not only necessary but cherished. The only thing less ordinary than ordinary is a film that presupposes our intelligence with dime store movie chicanery while puffing up shallow ideas for actors with far more talent than the filmmakers know what to do with. In the end, The Adjustment Bureau operates inside a Saran-wrapped window pane easily pierce with expectation for more only to find once we get to the actors on the other side we realize they’re waiting just like we are for a point to it all. Continue reading
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Tagged above the line, action adventure, Anthony Mackie, cameos in films, dramatic thriller, Emily Blunt, George Nolfi, John Slattery, Jon Stewart cameo, matt damon, Michael Kelly, movies of 2011, practical movie reviews, romantic thriller, rory dean, terrance stamp, the adjustment bureau
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