Preceding Jamaa Fanaka’s critically acclaimed Penitentiary as well as the intense and influential TV event “Scared Straight,” 1977’s Short Eyes (prison slang for pedophile) is a searing “slice-of-life” film that dares to deal with the topic of child molestation. Controversial at the time of its release, Short Eyes eschews the […]
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Don Siegel and Clint Eastwood’s final film collaboration, the prison docudrama-thriller ESCAPE FROM ALCATRAZ (1980) is coming to Blu Ray in October from Warner Home Video. The story is based on true events surrounding the prison break of 1962 on Alcatraz Island. Clint stars as the bustout ringleader Frank Morris […]
CON AIR. For me, it’s one of the greatest action films ever made. Nicolas Cage stars as Cameron Poe, a U.S. Army Ranger that is thrown in prison because he defended himself in a fight and accidentally killed one of the guys that was attacking him. Poe is clearly an […]
“Some men are destined never to leave Alcatraz… alive.” Don Siegel’s 1979 prison film Escape From Alcatraz marked the fifth and final collaboration between the director and friend/star Clint Eastwood. The story is based on true events surrounding an escape from the infamous maximum security prison on Alcatraz Island in […]
Runaway Train is a fast paced, action-adventure film that was based on a screenplay by Akira Kurosawa and shelved due to financial troubles. The rights to the abandoned script was later bought and re-written by Djordje Millicevic, Eddie Bunker and Paul Zindel and turned into a film directed by Andrei […]
With our last list (Furious Road Movies) we dealt with the theme of travel, moreover life on the road where people can feel the wind in their hair, look out at the horizon and think about all the things out there to explore. Now in a switch of pace we’d […]