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...documentary of a death-row inmate convicted of a murder he likely didn’t commit. The film prompted the governor of Illinois to send Friedkin a thank-you letter, saying the film led him to commute Crump’s sentence to life in prison instead of death by electric chair.“But listen,” Friedkin said, introducing the film with the same humility that elicited his constant tribute to a benevolent Movie God. “It’s not that good, folks...
...performance in the remainder of the movie lacks nuance and credibility.The two plotlines and sets of characters continue to exist in separate dimensions until the last 30 minutes of the movie, when Madea finally goes to jail and actually interacts with a character from the central plot. But these prison scenes do not make up for the confusion caused by the unexplained back-and-forth that characterizes most of the movie. It is interesting, however, to see what Perry makes of Madea in jail. Although the movie culminates in Perry’s traditional Christian salvation for his honest, hard...
...Earlier this week came the release of a former detainee, Ethiopian native Binyam Mohamed, in Britain, an event that came with the by now familiar alleged horror stories of rendition and torture. For the anti-Gitmo crowd, this was proof positive that the prison is an abomination and that many, if not most, detainees should be released...
When it comes to former detainees of the Guantánamo Bay prison, the Obama Administration is discovering that out of sight is certainly not out of mind. Since the President's decision to shut down the controversial holding center for terrorism suspects, not a week has gone by without a number of former inmates making headlines - and, from the U.S. perspective, for all the wrong reasons. The cases are a virtual Rorschach test of where you stand on the to-close-or-not-to-close-Gitmo debate. (See pictures from inside Guantánamo...
...Gitmo, al-Ajmi became a suicide bomber, eventually driving an explosive-laden truck into an Iraqi army base near Mosul last March, killing 13 Iraqi soldiers and injuring many more. This, exclaimed the pro-Gitmo group, was proof positive that detainees should not be released. (See pictures of prison life inside Baghdad's Camp Cropper...