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Today's Brew ________________ Moviegoing

Shawshank Redemption
Second best movie of 1994? ___ 10/10

There've been several good and powerful prison films over time, including Paul Newman in Cool Hand Luke, Robert Redford in Brubaker, Steve McQueen in Papillon, Clint Eastwood in Escape from Alcatraz, and many more before and since. Many of them are based on true stories, and those that aren't are based on true experience.

When you get right down to it, what is "prison" in modern industrial societies, except the extremity of state power. Indeed, if one looks at the state as as a person, prison is its apotheosis, its glorious ideal. The state likes nothing better than to reduce all of humankind to a regimented, Big Brother existence... where you must get permission to tie your shoes, eat your meals, or take a whiz... [more]

• The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
• Crude (2009)
• Bad Lieutenant: N.Orleans (2009)
• Iron Man (2008)
• Legends of the Fall (1995)
• Up in the Air (2009)
• Geronimo (2009)
• The Hurt Locker (2009)
• Crazy Heart (2009)
• Weeds (Series, 2005)
• Sideways (2009)
• (500) Days of Summer (2009)
• Amreeka (2009)
• Gilda (1946)
• An Affair to Remember (1957)
• Religulous (2008)
• Avatar (2009)
• The Passion of Ayn Rand (1999)
• Invictus (2009)
• Hombre (1967)
• Harold and Maude (1971)
• High Noon (1952)
• Out of the Past (1947)
• Sleepless in Seattle (1993)
• Last Picture Show (1971)
• Dances with Wolves (1990)
• Dear America (1988)
• Milk (2008)
• Cadillac Records (2008)
• Love Song, Bobby Long (2008)
• Grapes of Wrath (1940)
• The Last of the Mohicans (1992)
• Good Will Hunting (1997)
• October Sky (1999)
• Gran Torino (2008)
• Melquiades Estrada (2005)
• Tucker (1988)
• The Great Waltz (1938)
• Legend of Bagger Vance (2000)
• The Visitor (2007)
• WALL-E (2008)
• The Great Debaters (2007)
• Coming Home  (1978)
• Nobody's Fool  (1994)
• Swing Shift (1984)

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