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Game of Thrones

Posted on September 13, 2013 by rorydean

Prepare yourself for smart and articulate tones, a broad and artful universe taken masterfully from an adaptation that respectfully brings the source material to the screen. Faithful to followers and enticing to regular theater goers, the producers aptly marry art with history for a particular kind of pop eccentricity, blurring ‘what might have happened’ with ‘what could have’, the best kind of speculative realism that enjoys hearty fiction almost equally. Continue reading →

Posted in Essays on Film, Movie I've Seen, Movies You Should or Should Not See, My Review of Their Review:, On DVD, Online, philosophy and film, Rants & Raves | Tagged A Song of Ice and Fire, above the line, Alan Taylor, Alex Graves, Alik Sakharov, Beastmaster, Brian Kirk, D.B. Weiss, Daniel Minahan, David Benioff, David Nutter, David Petrarca, dragons, dungeons and dragons, George R.R. Martin, Golden Voyage of Sinbad, HBO, Lena Headey, Maisie Williams, Michelle MacLaren, Neil Marshall, Peter Dinklage, practical movie reviews, role-play, rory dean, sword and fantasy movies, television series, Thrones Game, Timothy Van Patten, Westeros, Xerox | 2 Comments

The Lighning Thief Gets Caught

Posted on July 10, 2010 by rorydean

If the success of Percy is any indication of things to come, we can expect to see ever more frequently films where the main characters look good under hot lights but come across as flat, emotionless automatons going through preconceived notions of story we’ve heard too frequently coming from the same stale sources. Continue reading →