Ever try doing an Amazon.com search with the keyword "Caribbean", and notice that the only thing that comes up is Pirates of the Caribbean? Well, last summer's blockbuster comes up for a bit more criticism than hijacking my search for Caribbean books and music online. There's a controversial scene in the second installment of Disney's …
Category: film and television
Six degrees of separation
I'm watching one of those investigative programmes on American television at the moment, testing out the whole six degrees of separation theory. As it turns out, both their local and international experiments do average out at about 6 connections, and in the same city it can be reduced to four. For us folks who grew …
Review: Watching You (2003)
Watching You (2003) is a collection of award-winning international film shorts, varying in length from seven to 32 minutes, each with a distinct voice well worth a listen. The first on the DVD is 4PM, a quirky and funny little U.K. film from director Samantha Backhurst and featuring Emma Kay, Linda McGuire and Barry Lee-Thomas. …
The Final Frontier? Candace & queer women of colour on The L Word (2004)
Originally published on AfterEllen.com, April 17th 2004 Wasn’t it just the other day that I was sitting in front of my television in that semi-vegetative state and across one of those sexy The L Word promos? Since then, the show has drawn legions of fans and detractors within its broad cross-section of straight, gay, male …
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Knife in the water
From Polanski’s breath-taking cinematography, we can immediately recall the young hitchhiker leaning over the edge of the sailboat and cutting through the water - the simplicity and profundity of that action. Why this title then? What are the implications of it, and how does it refer to things that may or may not be salient …
Death and The Seventh Seal
This was written as an assignment for a film class while studying at Williams College in 2001 Few films deal as explicitly and profoundly with the mammoth questions of life, death and God as does Ingmar Bergman’s The Seventh Seal. The film takes us on a journey with the knight Antonius Bloch, after his return …
Review: Ghost World (2001) | The Williams Record
Originally published in the Williams Record, October 1st 2001 Somewhere in America, in a generic suburban town with the same ‘creeps and weirdos’ that frequent every American neighbourhood, pale-faced, black-haired Enid (Thora Birch) and her partner in crime Rebecca (Scarlett Johansson) have just graduated high school and are reluctantly trying to figure out exactly what …
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Review: Chocolat (2001) | The Williams Record
Originally published: in the Williams Record, February 20th 2001 You can always tell a good movie when you didn’t once look down to see how much longer it could possibly run. You can be sure other people have liked it when the buzz surrounding it is so strong that it’s held over at the movie …
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