Romance and Reggae in Lovers Rock
Steve McQueen, quite simply, is an exquisite filmmaker. As an artist, he is similar to a trained fighter with knowledgeContinue Reading
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The Righteous Anger of Watermelon Man
Jeff Gerber (Godfrey Cambridge) is a racist. He may cover it up in “jokes” or off-color comments that he triesContinue Reading
Persecution in Mangrove
The arrival of Steve McQueen‘s five films combined into the miniseries Small Axe is timely with a rise in protestsContinue Reading
Freeing Up the Lane Through Love & Basketball
When did we come up with this preconceived notion that movies – all of them, every last one – haveContinue Reading
Influence & Judas and the Black Messiah
There was a brief period of time in which Judas and the Black Messiah was titled Jesus Was My Homeboy,Continue Reading
Eve’s Bayou and the Fragility of Memory
Eve’s Bayou falls in line with the long tradition of adult stories told from a child’s point of view. EveContinue Reading
Irma la Douce’s Unconventional Love
After starring together in Billy Wilder‘s classic The Apartment, Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine re-teamed again under Wilder’s direction forContinue Reading
Call Me by Your Name, the Story of the Boy Who Knew Everything and Nothing
i. Elio Perlman, not yet a man, hardly a boy, knows everything. He knows everything about the things that noContinue Reading
The Wiley, Windy Moors: Wuthering Heights (2011)
One of my favourite passages about Wuthering Heights is in Truman Capote’s Breakfast At Tiffany’s when Holly Golightly quotes WutheringContinue Reading
Altruistic Love in Le Notti Bianche
Infatuation is fleeting while true love endures even when the connection has ceased. For the dreamer, this distinction is foreign;Continue Reading
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