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KINGSTON, Jamaica — Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport Olivia Grange says a new digital Reggae Film Archive will be established at the National Library of Jamaica in an effort to ...

While it's unlikely any of the movies presented at the 5th Annual Reggae Film Festival will attract the widespread interest generated by director Kevin McDonald's "Marley" doc, films such as "Studio… ...

Rockers is, arguably, the finest reggae movie ever made. The 1978 film tells the story of a financially struggling drummer, Leroy “Horsemouth” Wallace (portraying himself), who buys a motorbike with ...

I am Benjamin Crabtree, and I am a Feature Writer for Collider. I am also the creator of CrabtreeCinema.com and cohost of the upcoming Celluloid Noise Podcast. Beyond writing and talking about cinema, ...

Reggae music represented a revolution in sound for the world, but for the Jamaican public it was something even bigger. In its embrace of Afrocentrism and its popularization of the weed-soaked ...

AN added attraction has been introduced to the 2010 Rototom Reggae Sunsplash to be held for the first time in Benicassim, Spain from August 22 -25. As a booster, the organisers of the major summer ...

In this essay, writer AJ Morris explores the cultural history of Jamaican music, from reggae to dancehall, and examines how the medium works in tandem with Jamaican film as acts of protest and ...

In the 1992 documentary Stepping Razor: Red X, the slain reggae star Peter Tosh is hailed in retrospect as a “prophet too deep for his times.” A little much? Perhaps. Then again, Tosh’s 1976 solo ...

Miami’s the site of another big premiere. Marley, from Academy Award-winning director Kevin Macdonald (One Day in September, The Last King of Scotland) is the life story of musician, revolutionary, ...

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