SXSW Adds 102 Movies to 2019 Film Festival Lineup

After Us, what else does the film fest have in store?

"...large and small has announced its first wave of movies and shows, with new films from Olivia Wilde, Robert..."

Jan. 16, 2019 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

The Other Side of Prison

Inmate Population Swells

"...the end of 1998, 144,439 inmates filled Texas state prisons, more than double the 1993 figure of 71,103. But..."

April 30, 1999 News Feature by Mike Butts

Movies From the Mount

Sundance Film Festival

"...103 from 127 last year. (Actually, of the 103 movies playing in the Sundance fest, only 32 are in..."

Feb. 6, 1998 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Movies, Comedy, Books, and More Recommended Arts Events

Find an art that fits your tastes

"...– Richard Whittaker Books Through Bars: Stories From the Prison Books Movement..."

March 29, 2024 Arts Feature by James Scott

Tired of the Same Old Christmas Movies? Try These Instead.

7 unconventional picks to scratch your holiday itch

"...There’s no shortage of Christmas horror movies to choose from, but there’s only one teen zombie..."

Dec. 22, 2020 Screens Post

How Driving Somebody From One Texas City to Another Can Turn Into a Prison Sentence

Rides from hell, thanks to Texas’ immigration law

"...months in the Briscoe Unit – a Texas state prison. Perrow had just graduated from high school when he..."

Feb. 2, 2024 News Feature by Benton Graham

The Greatest Train Movies Ever

Before "Snowpiercer" opens, a ticket for the best films on track

"...That's why there's always been a sub-genre of railway movies: The sound of a stream engine, the roar of..."

June 20, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

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

The Rehabilitative Power of Art in Sing Sing

Oscar nominee Colman Domingo teams with Austin filmmaker Greg Kwedar in a story of transformation behind prison walls

"...heal. “It smashes tropes about the people inside the prison industrial complex,” star Colman Domingo says. “They found how..."

Aug. 2, 2024 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

A Prophet

This riveting French film is the best prison/crime saga to come along in quite a while.

"...astonishingly good French drama A Prophet is the best prison/crime saga to come along in quite a while –..."

March 19, 2010 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Levity

"...Bob Thornton as a murderer who is released from prison 23 years after the commission of his crime, although..."

July 11, 2003 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

All Attitude

"I'm a very nice girl -- who happens to be completely amoral," says cult queen Mary Woronov. She'll present two films -- Death Race 2000 and Rock 'n' Roll High School --at the Rolling Roadshow's Rock 'n Roll Drive-In this Saturday.

"...of a dominatrix, Woronov is frequently cast as the prison warden or school principal (famously, as the killjoy Miss..."

Nov. 15, 2002 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Desperate Measures

"...that's like some sweet drug, the inane plottings in movies like Desperate Measures induce something akin to a numbing..."

Jan. 30, 1998 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Switchblade Sisters

This nifty little movie is full of all the lurid teases, off-the-cuff production values, and trenchant topicality that make exploitation movies the fascinating cultural time capsules they are.

"...work includes the bizarre cult favorite Spider Baby, two women-in-prison gems The Big Doll House and The Big Bird..."

Aug. 16, 1996 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Crazy Love

Documentary portrait of a mutually obsessive, interdependent, tabloid-fodder marriage going on 30 years.

"...In fact, it’s after the attack (and his subsequent prison sentence) that their love blossoms most – into a..."

June 15, 2007 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

The Great Escape

One of the all-time great action movies also features an all-star international cast. Steve McQueen is unforgettable as the "Cooler King" in the drama about an Allied prisoner escape from a Nazi POW camp.

"...and Donald Pleasence. One of the all-time great action movies, The Great Escape also features an all-star international cast...."

Jan. 16, 2003 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

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

Out of Sight

Soderbergh adapts Elmore Leonard in this caper movie that features great performances, gritty milieus, and clever creative flourishes.

"...so it makes for one of the better heist movies in some time. Clooney, looking and acting way above..."

June 26, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Show

"...its Austin debut in two theatres specializing in second-run movies. The reviews I've seen elsewhere don't indicate that the..."

Nov. 3, 1995 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Bandit Queen

"...Devi. Devi, who was released from 11 years of imprisonment in 1994, is a legendary figure, feared by government..."

Sept. 29, 1995 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Perez Family

"...has spent the last 20 years in a Cuban prison for burning up his sugar-cane fields instead of handing..."

May 12, 1995 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Love & a .45

Early Renée in a heap of bloody Texas trouble.

"...embroiled in a cross-Texas chase trying to avoid speed-freak, prison-pal Billy Mack (Cochrane), a pair of greasy hit men-cum-drug..."

Nov. 25, 1994 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Versus

"...before the movie cuts to the present day. A prison escapee – Prisoner KSC2-303 (Sakaguchi) – and his partner..."

July 11, 2003 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Mighty

"...writer-director Peter Chelsom made magic with his first two movies, Hear My Song and Funny Bones, two of the..."

Oct. 23, 1998 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Ant-Man

The Marvel Universe expands to include comedy

"...course) who, as the film opens, is released from prison into the arms of Luis (Peña, who will be..."

July 17, 2015 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

The Expendables 3

As action stars of yesteryear and tomorrow pop in and out, they demonstrate what expendable really means.

"...old gang breaks Wesley Snipes’ character Doc out of prison (which takes on a meta-humor if you think about..."

Aug. 15, 2014 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Hoax

Playing the con artist Clifford Irving, who notoriously forged the autobiography of Howard Hughes, Richard Gere has one of the best roles of his career.

"...publishing house and paid for his transgressions with a prison sentence and a poison name. Was there ever a..."

April 6, 2007 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Con Air

"...snappy one-liners than most all the other summer action movies so far. Big deal. Simpson and Bruckheimer always aimed..."

June 13, 1997 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Cured

The zombie apocalypse is over. So now what?

"...story of a mass IRA breakout from the Maze prison in Northern Ireland). As the former barrister reduced to..."

March 9, 2018 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Compadres

Mexican action comedy

"...shoots him and Garza is captured and sent to prison, a disgrace to the police force. He escapes custody..."

April 22, 2016 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

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