Few movie tropes deliver suspense quite like a daring prison escape. These films highlight gripping stories, clever plans, ...

The prison movie genre brings life’s most fundamental struggles to the fore, as characters are forced to confront isolation, subjugation, and the inhumanity of having their agency stripped away. From ...

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 ...

Jack is a Movie Features Author for Collider, covering the film industry's past, present, and future. After finding his passion for film at a very young age, Jack loves to dive deep into any genre, ...

This weekend, the Museum of Fine Arts Houston and KPFT’s “The Prison Show” will present the Prison Reform Film Festival, a series of movies about prison-related subjects. One of the films, Sweethearts ...

"I just wanna see my boy again..." Vertigo Releasing & Sunrise Films have debuted the official US trailer for Wasteman, an acclaimed indie set in a prison in the UK. This first premiered at the 2025 ...

Zach Laws is a longtime entertainment journalist and movie features writer. He is also an independent filmmaker and member of the Screen Actors Guild based out of Los Angeles. Zach grew up watching ...