Twelve years after Sierra Leone's long civil war came to an end, its broken institutions and weak development indicators continue to impact on the lives of its people. IRIN's latest film, Women Behind Bars, tries to understand why prison rates for women are soaring. It follows two paralegal...
Like with certain prostitute dramas from this East Asian territory -- notably the 1992 edition of “Girls with Tomorrow” that was co-directed by Wong Chi and David Lam, and also Lawrence Ah Mon’s “Queen of Temple Street” -- however, the few Jade Theatre “females behind bars” ...
2016). Although their implementation over the past 15 years has remained somewhat limited (e.g., Van Hout et al.,2023a), significant efforts to promote their adoption are ongoing. For example, the Thailand
Orange Is the New Black shines a light on the lives of incarcerated women, offering a nuanced look at sisterhood, survival, and redemption behind bars. Boasting a diverse ensemble cast led by Taylor Schilling, the groundbreaking series delves into the struggles and triumphs of women from various...
This one is not, or only at the beginning, whilst a bunch of chicks escape from behind bars. Besides this, that film is a great fun, despite the fact that it is really corny, but that's why I love it. Don't watch it in the same way as you could do it with SET IT OFF, A...
Eight panelists as diverse as the wide array of projects they've scored and arranged — from the Amazon film "The Tender Bar" (George Clooney) to Netflix's "Wednesday" (Tim Burton) — shared their insights on music's nuanced and critical role in film, television, and other media...
There is rampant discrimination against women trying to work behind the camera in Hollywood, and the result is and has been our near total exclusion from positions of power within the film industry. That may be devastating, but it is a fact. It is “inexorable.” ...
and he loses the fight and his money, but he holds the singer and the fighter up as they leave town and gets his money back; and then he romances and swindles Cattle Kate, a replay of what he had done somewhere before to Kate and the "gotcha-again" Kate even ends up behind bars....
This movie was made by an Italian director in Brazil with Brazilian and Italian actors, and dubbed into English. It's one of those Women-in-Prison or Babes-Behind-Bars exploitation movies full of sleaze, sex, and violence. It has what you expect to see in the genre - beautiful women ...
Junichi Suzuki's 1987 trash/sleaze mini-opus Women In Heat Behind Bars opens with a hyper-sexualized scene of a whole lot of prison sex before introducing us to the film's central character, a lovely young woman named Shinobu Himeno (Shinobu Wakana). She's been sent to the...