Barbadian cinema is small in output but part of a broader Caribbean filmmaking tradition that draws on the region's history, folklore and postcolonial identity. A Caribbean Dream, a Shakespearean adaptation shot on the island, gives a sense of how that setting can reframe familiar stories with fresh energy. See what Macca made of it below.
Rating: 1.5★
There is something genuinely exciting about the idea of a kaiju film rooted in the Caribbean. The genre, broadly speaking, has been Japanese territory since Toho Studios first unleashed Godzilla on unsuspecting cinema audiences in 1954, and the handful of Western studios that have tried their hand at giant-creature
Genre Romance
★★½ — A Caribbean Dream (2016)
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