Reel Roy Reviews (Keepin' It Real) (Volume 1)

By Roy Sexton

Reel Roy Reviews, Vol. 1: Keepin' It Real is a compilation of essays composed in tribute to (and sometimes frustration with) the art-form known as "cinema"-with a few theatre, music, and concert analyses thrown in for good measure. As a populist at heart, Sexton's sensibility is grounded in a desire to see good stories, well told. For Sexton, film is an encapsulated medium. Whether 90 minutes or three hours, a movie tells one story-beginning, middle, and end-introducing you to new friends, enemies, and locales in an efficiently designed delivery mechanism. With a good film, Sexton feels you get the experience of reading a novel (whether or not the film is in fact based on any work of literature) in a highly compressed fashion. In the best movie-going experience, your brain leaves your body for a bit, you take a mini-vacation to places you might not otherwise ever see, and you return to your regularly scheduled life a bit changed, perhaps enlightened, and hopefully re-energized. Sexton notes, "I try to respect that (for the most part) these are show business professionals putting (ideally) their best feet forward and that they are human beings with hearts and souls and feelings. I hope I never seem cruel. I don't mean to be. These writings are off-the-cuff and journal-style and come from as positive a place as I can muster....Approach everything and everyone honestly and with positive intent and offer candid feedback with an open heart and as much kindness as possible." Reel Roy Reviews, Vol. 1: Keepin' It Real includes reviews of Nebraska , Inside Llewyn Davis , Her , 12 Years a Slave , August: Osage County , The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug , American Hustle , Saving Mr. Banks , Steve Jobs , A Madea Christmas , The Sound of Music Live! , Philomena , Frozen , The Best of Kylie Minogue , Skyfall , The Black Stallion , and many more.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0615964907
• ISBN13: 9780615964904
• Release Date: February 2014
• Publisher: Open Books
• Length: 214 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.0" x 0.5" x 5.0"