Great balls of Fire in Babylon
The West Indies cricket team have been so dismal for so long it’s becoming easier and easier to forget they were once the best in the...
Film Reviews (September/October 2011)
Season of discontent On February 26, 1970, a small group of mostly young people marched through the streets of Port of Spain. They were...
T&T’s love affair with the silver screen
When the first cinema in Trinidad & Tobago, Port of Spain’s London Theatre, opened its doors in 1911, a local love affair with the...
Chris Browne: third world filmmaker
With behind-the-camera work on Hollywood feature films that include Cool Runnings (1992) and A Perfect Getaway (2009), Christopher Browne...
Beaton at his own game
Norman Beaton arrived home to be interviewed precisely at the appointed time in a stately white 1940s Bentley. His man of business, who was...
Where have all the Caribbean movies gone?
The Caribbean is often seen as a string of exotic islands with palm-fringed beaches, populated by happy calypso-singing natives waiting to...
Horace Ové: Coming Home
One moment Horace Ové was busy filming on a Caribbean beach, solving the sort of intellectual and technical problems that beset any...
Hollywood in the Caribbean
Before the Second World War, Hollywood couldn’t afford real locations for pictures with exotic settings – if it had the budget, it...
