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Posted on March 30, 2013 by bleuravyn

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 →

Posted in Guest Editors, Movie I've Seen | Tagged above the line, above the line movie reviews, art, Arts, dissave pictures, filmic, movie review, movie reviews, naval shipyard, quiet journey, rory dean, san francisco short films | 2 Comments

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 | 2 Comments

For Colored Girls (2010)

Posted on February 22, 2011 by rorydean

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 | 5 Comments

Jonah Hex (2010)

Posted on October 21, 2010 by rorydean

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 →

Posted in Movie I've Seen, Movies You Should or Should Not See, On DVD | Tagged above the line movie reviews, comic book adaptation, jimmy hayward, john malkovich, jonah hex, josh brolin, live action, megan fox, pixar, rory dean | 6 Comments

Resident Evil: Afterlife (2010) Franchi$e

Posted on October 13, 2010 by rorydean

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 →