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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
    • Oct 30, 2020
    • 5 min

    NEVER RARELY SOMETIMES ALWAYS: OVERCOMING THE OBSTACLES

    There is a scene midway through Eliza Hittman's soul-provoking new movie Never Rarely Sometimes Always that is wrenching in its...

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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 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
    • 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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