Sing Sing

Flicks with The Film Snob

Sing Sing

Sep 08 2025 | 00:03:26

00:00 / 00:03:26

Show Notes

A drama about the experiences of inmates participating in a theater program at the titular prison, featuring actual veterans of the program. Sing Sing, a film from director Greg Kwedar, is set, as you might expect, in the famous almost 200-year-old New York State prison thirty miles north of the city called Sing Sing, the name being a distorted version of a Native American name for that area. I’ve only been aware of it through old Hollywood prison movies up until now. But this film takes place in the real Sing Sing of today. In a large auditorium in the…

Other Episodes

Episode

October 04, 2017 • 4:40

Okja

Korean director Bong Joon-Ho presents a science fiction action adventure about a child’s bond with a super-pig, corporate greed, and the evils of factory...

Episode

December 02, 2018 • 00:04:05

A Woman Under the Influence

John Cassavetes’ acclaimed film from 1974 features Gena Rowlands in the title role as a woman who can’t fit into the narrow role of...

Episode

September 04, 2019 • 00:04:18

Where’d You Go, Bernadette

Cate Blanchett shines in Richard Linklater’s adaptation of a popular novel about a brilliant, difficult woman having trouble adjusting to domestic life. One of...