Prison movies are perhaps the most captivating of all movies, as the following films illustrate. From grim portrayals of life behind bars to escape thrillers to World War II team-ups to earnest ...

Movies have the power to take us anywhere. But sometimes they’re best served when there are constraints placed on their narrative potential, where writers and directors have to work within the ...

Prison is a scary place. Even in the movies, it's the kind of place that is impossible to romanticize, and Hollywood can do that with a lot of other terrible places. Prisons are also a place where ...

Prison movies are essentially a whole genre at this point, since so many films take place either wholly or entirely within prisons, and focus on things like survival and/or escape. It’s not ...

In our daily lives, it can be easy to overlook our countless queer people currently living behind bars and the unique struggles they face. According to the Prison Policy Initiative, LGBTQ+ people are ...

Luc Haasbroek is a writer and videographer from Durban, South Africa. He has been writing professionally about pop culture for eight years. Luc's areas of interest are broad: he's just as passionate ...