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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

ROOM

October 23, 2015 By Leave a Comment

ROOM

ROOM is a profound meditation on the human condition, a meditation as bittersweet as life itself, and as uplifting as a child’s innocence.  Based on the novel by Emma Donoghue, it confronts the barbaric simplicity of captivity, by contrasting it with the confusing complexity of freedom. What should be easy is not. Happiness is elusive.… Read More »

Tagged With: abduction, book to screen, kidnapping, mother-child, rape

SANDSTORM (BAWANDAR)

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

Jag Mundhra’s SANDSTORM succeeds on several levels. First, it’s a fine piece of filmmaking that tells this story of cultural discrimination with a directness that never panders to either its audience or its characters. Second, it succeeds in outlining in stark and uncompromisingly personal terms exactly what this sort of injustice means for one woman… Read More »

Tagged With: andrea chase, caste, classism, elitism, Jaipur, NGO, Rajistan, rape, review, sexism

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