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Life of a King

January 1, 2016 by Rahsaan Thomas

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...]

Filed Under: Book/Movie Reviews

Empire

December 1, 2015 by Emile Deweaver

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...]

Filed Under: Book/Movie Reviews

The Women of San Quentin: Soul Murder of Transgender Women in Male Prisons by Kristin Schreier Lyseggen

November 1, 2015 by Juan Haines

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...]

Filed Under: Book/Movie Reviews

Minority Report

November 1, 2015 by San Quentin News Staff

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...]

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Into the Woods

October 1, 2015 by Emile Deweaver

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...]

Filed Under: Book/Movie Reviews

Selma directed by Ava DuVernay

September 1, 2015 by San Quentin News Staff

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...]

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Interstellar directed by Christopher Nolan

August 1, 2015 by San Quentin News Staff

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...]

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The Gambler directed by Rupert Wyatt

July 1, 2015 by San Quentin News Staff

“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...]

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Dracula Untold

June 1, 2015 by San Quentin News Staff

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...]

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Maleficent by Director Robert Stromberg

May 1, 2015 by San Quentin News Staff

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...]

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