Lucky Break

"...and James Nesbitt. Described as a “comedy about a prison escape with a musical twist,” this British film tells..."

May 17, 2002 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

DeLay Sentenced to Prison

Disgraced U.S. House majority leader gets three years

"...House majority leader Tom DeLay to three years in prison this afternoon, and concurrently to 10 years of probation...."

Jan. 10, 2011 News Post by Michael King

Opinion: We Need to Break the Barriers for Texans With Old Records

Maggie Luna, an Austin resident and mom of three, writes about her experience in the Texas prison system and how a rehabilitation center changed her life

"...Texas has the largest state prison population in the United States. Our rate of incarceration..."

Dec. 1, 2023 Column by Maggie Luna

You Don't Have to Break the Law to Get Watched by ARIC

Anarchy in the ATX

"...May 9, 2016, police report, three activists protesting unpaid prison labor hung a banner over I-35 during morning rush..."

Oct. 30, 2020 News Feature by John Anderson

From the Watergate Break-in to a Broken News Media

Key players in All the President's Men reflect on what 35 years have wrought

"...great – and presumably unassailable – power went to prison as a result of Woodward and Bernstein's dogged determination..."

April 15, 2011 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol

This fourth entry in the Tom Cruise film franchise is the best of the bunch; it's wacky and keen to please.

"...An opening prison-break sequence sets the tone (wacky and volatile, with Dean..."

Dec. 16, 2011 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Next Three Days

Russell Crowe plays a man who improbably springs his wife from prison where she's been incarcerated for life.

"...such familiar – and potentially dramatic – ingredients as jailbreaks, the wrongly accused, and femmes fatales, Haggis culls the..."

Nov. 26, 2010 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Escape Plan

Stallone and Schwarzenegger team up for double the fun.

"...one of the world’s leading experts on maximum security prisons, a skill he confirms by having himself clandestinely imprisoned..."

Oct. 25, 2013 Movie Review by Louis Black

TV Eye

In with old, in with the new

"...Fan appetites are whet with 12 episodes, another annoying break, and then the final eight episodes in 2007. When..."

Feb. 24, 2006 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

DVD Watch: 'A Man Escaped'

The perfect introduction to Robert Bresson

"...most elemental, is a grippingly taut drama about a prison escape by a French Resistance fighter from a Nazi..."

March 26, 2013 Screens Post by Marjorie Baumgarten

Grim History

Author traces Texas prison system from its roots in plantation slavery

"...Robert Perkinson published Texas Tough: The Rise of America's Prison Empire (Henry Holt and Company, 496 pp., $35), in..."

Aug. 20, 2010 News Feature by Michael King

Blake Behind Bars

To write a parody of prison movies, Naughty Austin's Blake Yelavich sentenced himself to 27 films in the big house

"...of themselves and expose it on stage. Watch 27 prison movies...."

Sept. 28, 2007 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Jailbird

The Prison Diaries of the Fabulous Thunderbirds' Preston Hubbard

"...Police departments, courts, lawyers, rehab centers, methadone clinics, and prisons also benefit from drugs being illegal. Prison is big..."

Oct. 20, 2000 Music Feature by Preston Hubbard

The Belko Experiment

A gory social experiment gone wrong

"...at work for all involved ensues. It’s the Stanford Prison Experiment rewritten for the corporate age in crimson streaks..."

March 31, 2017 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Last Rampage

True story about a bloody prison break

"...reviewed at press time. The true story of the prison break of Gary Tison and Randy Greenawalt from an..."

Sept. 22, 2017 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Behind Bars, But Bucking the System

Women inmates find redemption in the doc Sweethearts of the Prison Rodeo

"...Growing up in suburban Oklahoma, Sweethearts of the Prison Rodeo director Bradley Beesley had never been incarcerated or..."

Sept. 17, 2010 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

From Justin to Kelly

"...this movie, you actually watch it grow. 4) The spring-break setting of this deodorized and sanitized movie is rife..."

June 27, 2003 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Now Serving ... Time

Robert Conran sat down to dinner at Furr's, and walked out in handcuffs. After four years in prison on a shaky conviction, he's got a chance of parole -- then he faces deportation

"...of the Texas Dept. of Criminal Justice's Segovia Unit prison, located just outside the Rio Grande Valley town of..."

June 29, 2001 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Firestorm

"...(Forsythe) has started a huge wildfire to mask a prison break and is masquerading as a firefighter himself. That's..."

Jan. 9, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Niche Justice

Travis County specialty courts try to break the cycle of crime

"...until Labor Day weekend 2005 that Kellie had a breakthrough. "I had a moment of clarity. ... 'Get yourself..."

March 26, 2010 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Being Charlie

Rob Reiner directs this addiction drama written by his son Nick

"...programs (the film doesn’t either), but the threat of prison time coupled with a flirtation with a cute fellow..."

May 13, 2016 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Invictus

Morgan Freeman stars as Nelson Mandela in this true story of the leader helping to heal a nation through rugby.

"...moment.” With racial tensions high after his release from prison and ascension to the presidency, Mandela saw a means..."

Dec. 11, 2009 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

TV Eye

Saying goodbye to this season's shows and a reluctant hello to a summer of reality shows

"...Lincoln and Mike finally find their way out of prison, or back in, in the series finale for Prison..."

May 15, 2009 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Believing the Children

In 1992, Fran and Danny Keller were convicted of multiple counts of child sexual abuse at their Oak Hill day care center and sent to prison for 48 years. It's likely they were innocent. Indeed, it's very likely that no crime ever occurred – except an absurd and overzealous prosecution

"...Chaviers, and each was sentenced to 48 years in prison. For the Kellers, now 58 and 68, respectively, it..."

March 27, 2009 News Feature by Jordan Smith

John Carpenter's Escape From L.A.

"...the President from the New York City Maximum Security Prison, but then as Snake himself liked to note, “The..."

Aug. 9, 1996 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Unlocking the Joys of Austin’s Puzzle Rooms

Escape rooms bring the solitary diversions to life

"...to get out of. Scenarios range from heists and jailbreaks to dungeon escapes, downed spaceships, and zombie outbreaks, but..."

July 29, 2016 Arts Feature by Marc Majcher

Abandoning the Nest

Hurt by the state's inadequate incentives program, Texas film crews take flight

"...two years has been filming of the television shows Prison Break in the Dallas area and Friday Night Lights..."

May 23, 2008 Screens Feature by Joe O'Connell

The Big Squeeze

The writers' strike hits close to home

"...from DVD sales. "I'm actually looking forward to a break ... or was," McCanlies said when reached late last..."

Nov. 16, 2007 Screens Feature by Joe O'Connell

Two Girls and a Guy

"...wash, and not nearly as interesting as the weekly heartbreaks of the Friends crew. As the film opens, two..."

April 24, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Half-Baked

Cameos from Steven Wright, Willie Nelson, Tommy Chong, and Janeane Garofalo help stoke this addled comic premise about selling pot to raise a buddy's bail.

"...to helm a low-expectations, dead-season comedy that probably will break even if it manages to linger in theatres for..."

Jan. 23, 1998 Movie Review by Russell Smith

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