Tag Archives: film criticism

Why Write About The Movies We Hate

Posted on July 15, 2013 by rorydean

Apparently I’m not alone. We hate our movies and love them for all sorts of reasons. People hate theaters and theater people, they hate other movie goers and especially critics; that goes for bloggers who are equally hated by the stodgy officials of film criticism, teachers and theorists and other bloggers too. We even hate the movies we love. Continue reading →

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Filmmaker and Film Critic makes Movie Blogger Efforts

Posted on July 10, 2013 by rorydean

Writing about movies is about as close to making them as I can get right now and I think it puts me in a unique position to share my thoughts as a bridge for others to fall in love with the how as much as the possibility of movies. Continue reading →

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Review the Reviewer – Aggregator Syndrome

Posted on January 11, 2013 by rorydean

The heaven and hell of aggregators, however good for us is how very often they glaze over specificity and flavor, how they mute the tangible for the sugary breakfast cereal high and resort to salty snack food mediocrity for the sake of easily digestible, short-term gains and long-term forgettable. Continue reading →

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Batman: America’s James Bond

Posted on August 7, 2012 by rorydean

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 →

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Birth of a Nation (1915) The Mighty Spectacle

Posted on November 14, 2010 by rorydean

Birth of a Nation (1915) turned ninety-five years old this past March. For many there is no celebration in that. For some there is pause, considerable consternation and ultimately a resounding sigh of sadness that such an undeniably momentous event in cinema history is riddled by deplorable, troubling themes that are depicted in what some have called the first American feature-length film. Continue reading →

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