Rhea Cinna Archives – The Missing Slate

Passage Through the Zone

By Rhea Cinna

Fear of the new and unexplored take center stage in this essay by Senior Film Critic Rhea Cinna on Andrei Tarkovsky’s Stalker.

Arts & Culture, Film

Private Theatre: Neil Jordan’s Byzantium

By Rhea Cinna

Rhea Cinna reviews Neil Jordan’s melancholic and strangely extravagant Byzantium.

Arts & Culture, Film

Private Theatre: Werner Herzog’s Cave of Forgotten Dreams

By Rhea Cinna

Rhea Cinna talks about Werner Herzog’s documentary, Cave of Forgotten Dreams.

Arts & Culture, Film

Private Theater: Hirokazu Koreeda’s Hana

By Rhea Cinna

Hirokazu Koreeda’s Hana tells the story of a samurai who sets out to take vengeance on his father’s killer and finds a new life for himself throughout his journey.

Arts & Culture, Film

Independent I: Christopher Guinness’ Captain T&T

By Rhea Cinna

This week, the magazine’s Film Team features emerging writer-director Christopher Guinness and his short film, Captain T&T.

Arts & Culture, Film

Women in Film: Yuki Tanada

By Rhea Cinna

This week’s spotlight falls on Yuki Tanada, a female director who, by her own admission, tries to stay true to the genres she loves while at the same time defying stereotypes.

Film, The Critics

Private Theatre: Michael Haneke’s Amour

By Rhea Cinna

Reviewed by Rhea Cinna

Arts & Culture, Film, The Critics

Love in the Time of Suicide

By Rhea Cinna

A Valentine’s Special review on film by TMS Film Critic Rhea Cinna

Film, The Critics

DVD of the Week: Farewell, My Queen

By Rhea Cinna

Rhea Cinna reviews Marie Antoinette-inspired “Farewell, My Queen” for this week’s DVD of the Week.

Arts & Culture, Film, The Critics

DVD of the Week: The Man on the Train

By Rhea Cinna

Reviewed by Rhea Cinna

In the Magazine

A Word from the Editor

Don’t cry like a girl. Be a (wo)man.

Why holding up the women in our lives can help build a nation, in place of tearing it down.

Literature

This House is an African House

"This house is an African house./ This your body is an African womanâ€™s body..." By Kadija Sesay.

Literature

Shoots

"Sapling legs bend smoothly, power foot in place,/ her back, parallel to solid ground,/ makes her torso a table of support..." By Kadija Sesay.

Literature

A Dry Season Doctor in West Africa

"She presses her toes together. I will never marry, she says. Jamais dans cette vie! Where can I find a man like you?" By...

In the Issue

Property of a Sorceress

"She died under mango trees, under kola nut/ and avocado trees, her nose pressed to their roots,/ her hands buried in dead leaves, her...

Literature

What Took Us to War

"What took us to war has again begun,/ and what took us to war/ has opened its wide mouth/ again to confuse us." By...

Literature

Sometimes, I Close My Eyes

"sometimes, this is the way of the world,/ the simple, ordinary world, where things are/ sometimes too ordinary to matter. Sometimes,/ I close my...

Literature

Quarter to War

"The footfalls fading from the streets/ The trees departing from the avenues/ The sweat evaporating from the skin..." By Jumoke Verissimo.

Literature

Transgendered

"Lagos is a chronicle of liquid geographies/ Swimming on every tongue..." By Jumoke Verissimo.

Fiction

Sketches of my Mother

"The mother of my memories was elegant. She would not step out of the house without her trademark red lipstick and perfect hair. She...

Fiction

The Way of Meat

"Every dayâ€”any dayâ€”any one of us could be picked out for any reason, and we would be... Weâ€™d part like hair, pushing into the...

Fiction

Between Two Worlds

"Ursula spotted the three black students immediately. Everyone did. They could not be missed because they kept to themselves and apart from the rest...."...

Essays

Talking Gender

"In fact it is often through the uninformed use of such words that language becomes a tool in perpetuating sexism and violence against women...

Essays

Unmasking Female Circumcision

"Though the origins of the practice are unknown, many medical historians believe that FGM dates back to at least 2,000 years." Gimel Samera looks...

Essays

Not Just A Phase

"...in the workplace, a person can practically be forced out of their job by discrimination, taking numerous days off for fear of their physical...

Essays

The Birth of Bigotry

"The psychology of prejudice demands that we are each our own moral police". Maria Amir on the roots of bigotry and intolerance.

Fiction

The Score

"The person on the floor was unmistakeably dead. It looked like a woman; she couldnâ€™t be sure yet..." By Hawa Jande Golakai.