Joseph Neff
Investigative Reporter at The Marshall Project
Investigative reporter at The Marshall Project
Articles
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1 week ago |
gothamist.com | Joseph Neff |Alysia Santo
When New York corrections officers attack prisoners in infirmaries — as has happened dozens of times in the past 15 years — it is nurses who must document and treat the resulting injuries. Their choices can save lives or cover up abuse.
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1 week ago |
spectrumculture.com | Joseph Neff
That New York City came to the brink of bankruptcy in the 1970s isn’t any kind of big secret. A famous front-page story in the New York Daily News inspired the title of Peter Yost and Michael Rohatyn’s film, with the headline FORD TO CITY: DROP DEAD a terse and harsh summarizing of a speech delivered by then-President Gerald Ford regarding the fiscal woes that form the subject of the film.
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2 weeks ago |
gothamist.com | Alysia Santo |Joseph Neff
The guards carried Robert Brooks into the infirmary face down, holding him by his cuffed hands and ankles. Once inside a private exam room at Marcy Correctional Facility, near Syracuse, New York, on Dec. 9, officers beat and choked him while nurses lingered in the hall. Brooks died the next day at a nearby hospital. Lawyers for the Brooks family say the guards intentionally took him to the infirmary because it lacked cameras due to medical privacy concerns.
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3 weeks ago |
spectrumculture.com | Joseph Neff
If its title sets off buzzers of recognition, that’s likely because Andrew Ahn’s fourth feature The Wedding Banquet is a remake, or to employ the descriptor favored by the film’s distributor Bleecker Street, a “reimagining” of Ang Lee’s 1993 indie romantic comedy of the same name. That might read as a semantic splitting of hairs, but calling Ahn’s version a reimagining is more than charitable, even though James Schamus is a writer/producer on both films.
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1 month ago |
spectrumculture.com | Joseph Neff
The third feature from director Roshan Sethi, A Nice Indian Boy is a romantic comedy so smoothly assembled and lightly likable that the impressive weave of its storyline can get overlooked. Efficiently shot with intermittent flashes of flair, the film’s strongest quality is the acting of its two leads. Additionally, the supporting cast is handed roles of considerable dimension.
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