Diving into the setup here, Wendell (Mercer) is an ex-con making ends meet as a handyman. His overbearing parole officer (Skipper) is breathing down his neck. So, Wendell agrees to help Suzanne (Voss) ...

The filmmaker tells IndieWire why he's providing a $300,000 grant to Coppola's Decentralized Pictures for filmmakers to finish their films. From an early embrace of day-and-date releases to ...

It started as a simple test of role-play and compliance, an attempt to understand how placing a randomized sample could affect behavior. What happened next changed experiments forever. It started as a ...

In 1971, at the prestigious Stanford University, a group of young men were paid to participate in a study designed to observe the psychological effects of prison life. The experiment didn't just focus ...

Greg Chaney turned the movie-viewers into the movie stars — or at least high-profile cameos. Chaney’s short film, “The Quest For Lee” closed out the first night of the Juneau Underground Motion ...

A new movie about the Stanford Prison Experiment opens tonight, based on the famous experiment run by psychologist Philip Zimbardo. In 1971, Zimbardo set up a mock prison in a basement of the Stanford ...

“Here” is more of an experiment than it is a movie. Unfortunately, it’s not even a terribly successful experiment. A movie version of Richard McGuire’s graphic novel, it turns what was ...

It is several years after the events of the first movie, and David Herdeg (the survivor of the Philadelphia Experiment from the first film) and Allison (the woman from 1984 he fell in love with) have ...

"Big Brother" meets "Escape From Alcatraz" in "The Experiment," a reasonably gripping psychodrama in which a bunch of civilians agree to play guards and prisoners for two weeks in the cause of ...

Billy Crudup stars opposite an all-stars-in-the-making cast of young men in this dramatization of the notorious 1971 psychology experiment, directed by Kyle Patrick Alvarez. By Leslie Felperin ...