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BRIAN BANKS

August 10, 2019 By Leave a Comment

BRIAN BANKS

BRIAN BANKS is an earnest film that hits all the necessary and expected plot points as it makes its cogent indictment of the criminal justice system. It never becomes a screed, though the based-on-a-true story of 16-year-old who ended up serving time for a rape he didn’t commit certainly has all the elements to support… Read More »

Tagged With: based on a true story, California Innocence Project, Enlightenment, football, justice system, parole office, plea bargain, rape

TRIAL BY FIRE — Ed Zwick Interview

May 21, 2019 By Leave a Comment

TRIAL BY FIRE — Ed Zwick Interview

Click here to listen to the interview. A film like TRIAL BY FIRE provokes a host of questions about the justice system and the ethics of capital punishment.  When I spoke with Ed Zwick on April 15, 2019, those inevitably came up as we discussed adapting the true story of Cameron Todd Willingham’s murder conviction, and… Read More »

Tagged With: Alex Soros, Cameron Todd Willingham, Capital punishment, Elizabeth Gilbert, executions, justice system, lethal injections, redemption, rehabilitation, Rick Perry, Texas

LAST DAY OF FREEDOM — Dee Hibbert-Jones & Nomi Talisman Interview

January 11, 2016 By Leave a Comment

LAST DAY OF FREEDOM — Dee Hibbert-Jones & Nomi Talisman Interview

Dee Hibbert-Jones and Nomi Talisman are first-time filmmakers whose short film, LAST DAY OF FREEDOM, has been short-listed for the Oscars™.  The hand-drawn animation tells the story of Bill Babbitt and his beloved brother Manny, two men who were let down by the system in which they placed their trust. When Bill realizes that Manny… Read More »

Tagged With: African-American, Bryan Stevenson, cruel and unusual, death penalty, execution, hand-drawn animation, health care, homelessness, Just Mercy, justice, justice system, mental health, Oscar short list, PTSD, racism, safe streets, systemic failure

Michod, David — ANIMAL KINGDOM

September 1, 2014 By Leave a Comment

Michod, David — ANIMAL KINGDOM

Writer/director David Michod edited “Inside Film” magazine and made short films in preparation for his feature film debut, ANIMAL KINGDOM. The short films wowed Sundance a few years back, and this year, so did ANIMAL KINGDOM, a gritty film about a family of criminals in Melbourne, Australia, and the estranged, traumatized grandson and nephew, J,… Read More »

Tagged With: alpha males, Ben Mendelsohn, crime family, David Michod, dysfunctional familiy. Australian cinema, Guy Pearce, Jacki Weaver, James Frecheville, Joel Edgerton, justice system, Melbourne, Sundance

Brett Morgen and the CHICAGO 10

September 1, 2014 By Leave a Comment

Brett Morgen and the CHICAGO 10

The Yippies at the 1968 Democratic Convention gave themselves body and soul to protesting the injustice. The same can be said of Brett Morgen’s determination to make his documentary about the riots and the trial that resulted from them more than just a look back at an interesting moment in American history. When I spoke to him on February 21, 2008, the relevance of those… Read More »

Tagged With: 1968 Chicago Democratic Convention, 20th-century history, Abbie Hoffman, animation, anti-war protest, Brett Morgen, director, documentary, film, history, justice system, movie, politics, protest, revolution, riots, trial, Yippie

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