Jamaican cinema punched well above its weight in the 1970s, with The Harder They Come putting both reggae and Kingston's rude-boy culture on the world map. Rockers continued that tradition, loose and music-soaked, capturing a moment when the island's sound and screen identity were inseparable. Browse Macca's Jamaican reviews below.
Country Jamaica
Now and again a short film comes along that seems to speak directly to you, and FarEye, Hayden McLean's beautiful short film, was exactly that for me. I caught it at the BFI London Film Festival, and as someone who follows the teachings of Haile Selassie myself, the
Rating: 4.0★
There is something profoundly absurd about standing before the Great Pyramids of Giza, the Colosseum, or the Louvre, monuments that have survived millennia of human history, only to watch hundreds of people experience them exclusively through the glowing rectangle of a smartphone on a selfie stick. It is one of
Rating: 3.0★
There's a very specific, undeniable magic to the moment the needle drops on a classic Trojan Records compilation. That warm crackle, the skank of the rhythm guitar, the brass punching through. Nicolas Jack Davies's 2018 documentary Rudeboy: The Story of Trojan Records captures that exact frequency,
Genre Comedy
★★★½ — Rockers (1978)
Genre Action
★★ — Shottas (2002)
Genre Drama
★★ — One Love (2003)
Genre Crime
★★★★ — The Harder They Come (1972)
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