Life of a King does an outstanding job of portraying the realities of using chess as a means of saving young men who come from dysfunctional homes … [Read more...]
Empire
The most popular show on FOX widens the racial divides in America every Wednesday at 9 p.m. Empire tells the story of Lucious Lyon, a hip-hop music … [Read more...]
The Women of San Quentin: Soul Murder of Transgender Women in Male Prisons by Kristin Schreier Lyseggen
When Kristin Schreier Lyseggen moved from her native Norway to Berkeley, she saw it as an opportunity to understand the lives of people struggling to … [Read more...]
Minority Report
How does a focus on retribution break a criminal justice system? Mondays at 9 p.m. you can watch FOX’s new show Minority Report and find out. Inspired … [Read more...]
Into the Woods
By SQ Reviews Into the Woods is a story that spreads enough blame around to indict half the cast as villains, but the movie ends with a restorative … [Read more...]
Selma directed by Ava DuVernay
In Selma, director Ava DuVernay portrays Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s (David Oyelowo) struggle to get the Voting Rights Act passed. Although DuVernay … [Read more...]
Interstellar directed by Christopher Nolan
Director Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar poses a question: what is more important, survival of an individual or survival of the species? The earth is … [Read more...]
The Gambler directed by Rupert Wyatt
“I want a real love, a real house, a real thing to do every day,” Mark Wahlberg says, playing the lead in director Rupert Wyatt’s The Gambler. He’s … [Read more...]
Dracula Untold
S.Q. Reviews continues the theme we explored in May: What is the so-called monster’s side of the story? In Dracula Untold, Dracula (Luke Evans) grows … [Read more...]
Maleficent by Director Robert Stromberg
With the U.S. incarcerating more people than any other industrialized nation, it is not surprising that “the villain’s side of the story” has become a … [Read more...]