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    Joseph Pryweller
    • Dec 18, 2020
    • 6 min

    KEY LARGO: A STORM BREWS INSIDE US

    Key Largo doesn't take long to find its hard noir core. The classic Bogie-Bacall picture from 1948 stashes the main characters in a...

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    Joseph Pryweller
    • Nov 16, 2020
    • 6 min

    THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES: DISILLUSION AND THE RETURNING VET

    The war is over in the Pacific. Three servicemen are returning home. They bum a ride together on an Air Force transport plane, sitting in...

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    Joseph Pryweller
    • Nov 9, 2020
    • 4 min

    THe INVISIBLE MAN: TRANSPARENT TERROR

    Sometimes, when it comes to bad relationships, it is not about the lack of love between two people, or lack of chemistry, fidelity or...

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    Joseph Pryweller
    • May 25, 2020
    • 6 min

    The Lessons of Network in a Post-Modern World

    Go ahead, open up the window, stick out your head and say it three times loud: I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore!...

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    Joseph Pryweller
    • May 10, 2020
    • 5 min

    THE GRADUATE: THE SOUNDS OF LONELY SILENCE

    It is a movie about choices, the wrong ones and the right ones and what do when you're not certain which are which. It is a movie about...

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    Joseph Pryweller
    • Apr 30, 2020
    • 5 min

    WHERE HAVE ALL THE GOOD ROCK MOVIES GONE?

    What's so funny about peace, love, understanding and making a really good rock movie that's not just another easy biography? The former...

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    Joseph Pryweller
    • Apr 25, 2020
    • 4 min

    LEAVE NO TRACE: MOVIES OF ISOLATION

    This occasional series will look at overlooked films on popular streaming services -- Amazon Prime, Hulu and Netflix -- that are well...

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    Joseph Pryweller
    • Apr 25, 2020
    • 4 min

    THE FAREWELL: PUT ON A HAPPY FACE

    There is delusion that means unnecessarily avoiding confronting a grimmer reality and delusion that is sometimes necessary to survive....

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    Joseph Pryweller
    • Mar 14, 2020
    • 5 min

    GROWING UP UNLOVED: MOVIES OF REBELLION

    Rebel Without a Cause really gets the heart beating when the world is blown to bits. In an iconic scene near the beginning of the movie,...

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    Joseph Pryweller
    • Mar 7, 2020
    • 4 min

    WINE, ROSES AND WHISKEY

    Addiction, in the form of mental illness and recovery, is a powerful reminder of the weakness in all of us and our sometimes-lethal...

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    Joseph Pryweller
    • Jan 12, 2020
    • 5 min

    Macho Men Night at the Movies

    I've just finished watching the 1963 World War II film The Great Escape, a daring, almost three-hour-long account of an attempted...

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    Joseph Pryweller
    • Jan 9, 2020
    • 5 min

    The Subtle Subversivness of Mister Rogers

    As I walked out of a movie theater on a cold winter afternoon after seeing It's a Beautiful Day, I heard a couple remark how the film was...

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    Joseph Pryweller
    • Dec 30, 2019
    • 5 min

    The Irishman: A Moral Slippery Slope

    To paraphrase, Friedrich Nietzsche, morality comes in two flavors. There is the Judeo-Christian-based form that favors moral kindness and...

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    Joseph Pryweller
    • Dec 23, 2019
    • 4 min

    The Cotton Club Encore: Coppola and the Mob

    The backstory behind the making of Francis Ford Coppola's 1984 box office bomb The Cotton Club has all the the plot twists and palace...

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    Joseph Pryweller
    • Dec 17, 2019
    • 3 min

    Richard Jewell: Bubba the Bomber

    There are times when we are so hellbent on justice that we do an injustice instead. Richard Jewell, Clint Eastwood's latest film about a...

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    Joseph Pryweller
    • Dec 3, 2019
    • 3 min

    The Return of the Anti-Hero

    Does American need an anti-hero? We live in a time of partisan bickering, of a deepening divide between rich and poor, of random...

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    Joseph Pryweller
    • Dec 3, 2019
    • 3 min

    The Sensational Sound of Silence

    I recently watched an obscure 1950s Western called Time to Die. Made in Mexico and directed by Arturo Ripstein, a controversial filmmaker...

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