This is WEEKEND EDITION from NPR News. I'm Scott Simon. "Starred Up" is a film that may break your heart as it makes your stomach boil. A 19-year-old named Eric is transferred from a young offenders ...

The beginning of David Mackenzie’s U.K. prison drama, Starred Up, might make you wonder if you’ll survive to the end: We see a kid with a hard-eyed, shutdown face being matriculated at a new jail — ...

"Starred Up" is British slang for prematurely bringing a young offender from juvenile detention to the harsh world of adult prisons, a practice with potentially dire consequences as depicted in ...

“Starred Up” is a stunning, profanity-drenched, suddenly violent father-and-son story that’s set behind the prison walls. Carried by powerful performances by Jack O’Connell, who plays ultra-violent ...

It both helps and hurts that British filmmaker David Mackenzie's riveting prison drama was written by Jonathan Asser, a prison therapist. On the one hand, the story feels directly spun from the ...

Like his previous films, among them Halam Foe and Young Adam, MacKenzie is an adept handler of powerful actors: he's not afraid to push. This means performances that catch the eyes of critics and ...