Joseph PrywellerDec 26, 20193 min readKnives OUt: Immigrant SongA running joke in Rian Johnson's surprising hit mystery, Knives Out, is the fact that the members of an upper-class family in...
Joseph PrywellerDec 23, 20194 min readThe Cotton Club Encore: Coppola and the MobThe backstory behind the making of Francis Ford Coppola's 1984 box office bomb The Cotton Club has all the the plot twists and palace...
Joseph PrywellerDec 19, 20194 min readFord v. Ferrari: Showing Up the SuitsThe makers of Ford v. Ferrari, the high-testosterone, biographical joyride from director James Mangold, should be called out for false...
Joseph PrywellerDec 17, 20193 min readRichard Jewell: Bubba the BomberThere are times when we are so hellbent on justice that we do an injustice instead. Richard Jewell, Clint Eastwood's latest film about a...
Joseph PrywellerDec 16, 20192 min readSplit AtomsBefore I leave this earth, I have one thing to say, Why me. Before I leave this room, I have one thing to add, Why not. Before I make...
Joseph PrywellerDec 16, 20192 min readEarwormEarworm, earworm underneath my marigolds, Underneath my plain brain pan, driving me insane. Earworm, earworm, why can't you just go away,...
Joseph PrywellerDec 16, 20192 min readGrownup-HoodBe a man, a real man, c'mon man, grow up, take it on the chin, don't worry what others think, put away your childish toys, it's time to...
Joseph PrywellerDec 3, 20193 min readMarriage Story: An Inconvenient Union Noah Baumbach's brash Marriage Story starts on a upbeat note. Nicole is staring in a Broadway-bound play directed by her husband,...
Joseph PrywellerDec 3, 20193 min readThe Return of the Anti-HeroDoes American need an anti-hero? We live in a time of partisan bickering, of a deepening divide between rich and poor, of random...
Joseph PrywellerDec 3, 20193 min readThe Sensational Sound of SilenceI recently watched an obscure 1950s Western called Time to Die. Made in Mexico and directed by Arturo Ripstein, a controversial filmmaker...
