This interview was conducted with Lorraine Toussaint in early 2008 — on the way back from dropping her daughter to school, at a time when Hollywood was at a virtual standstill during the months’ long 2007–2008 writers’ strike. The interview was published in full on Discover Trinidad & Tobago, and formed the basis of another article …
Originally written for and published in Caribbean Beat magazine in 2007 If you’ve been to Trinidad, you might have shared a taxi with Michael Cherrie, or passed him on the streets of Port of Spain or Trincity en route to a class, a rehearsal, a show, or a shoot. You might not have known that this …
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. …
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 …
Continue reading The Final Frontier? Candace & queer women of colour on The L Word (2004)
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 …
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 …
Continue reading Review: Ghost World (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 …
Continue reading Review: Chocolat (2001) | The Williams Record
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