St. Lucia’s Joseph Marcell: “Some say it’s luck”
There’s a point in King Lear when I ask, “Does any here know me?” And at least once a week someone in the audience calls out:...
Leticia Tonos: love story
On 23 September, 2013, an extraordinary event occurred in the Dominican Republic. In a ruling viewed throughout the Caribbean and beyond as...
Through Carib eyes
“Our ancestors have been written out of history,” says Tracy Assing, writer and director of The Amerindians and herself a descendant of...
DVD reviews (January/February 2009)
Dancing with the devils Released in Trinidad and Tobago in late 2006, but with comparatively sparse exposure in the Caribbean since then,...
Calypso dreams come true
It’s been almost three years since I wrote in this space about a wonderful new film that I predicted would have the same sort of global...
The revolution is being televised
“Socialist mosquitoes. Bred to suck your blood through American denim. And forget your repellent, they’re immune to that s—.”...
Trinidad & Tobago: location, location, location
It’s a film location scout’s dream. Trinidad and Tobago, two islands separated by a 12-minute flight or a two-hour seabridge, where you...
DVD reviews (July/August 2008)
Out of Africa In 2005, to celebrate what would have been Bob Marley’s 60th birthday, his widow, Rita Marley, and several of Marley’s...
