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The Long Song Is a Brilliant Tale of Slavery’s End in Jamaica, Frustratingly Told Time 1/29/2021 © Heyday Television/Carlos Rodriguez Tamara Lawrance in The Long Song On Christmas Day, 1831, the Baptist deacon Samuel Sharpe organized a strike on the Jamaica sugar plantation where he was enslaved. When the strikers’ demands for pay went unmet, their work stoppage escalated into a full-on uprising that spread across the island’s sugar plantations for 11 days and involved tens of thousa...

Robert DeNiro and John Boyega are set to star as Formula 1 drivers (former and current, respectively) in a newly announced Netflix film. The Formula will star Boyega as a young racing phenom from Detroit whose mentor, a former F1 driver played by DeNiro, has mob connections, according to writer-director Gerard McMurray. In the film, Boyega’s character is forced to become a getaway driver to save the only family he has left. “Feels AMAZING to see this idea in my head finally come to life tha...

Igor Fishman , January 29th, 2021 11:15 Almost a year into the pandemic, a 400-film collage is now reflecting our overwhelming reality, rather than offering any release. Igor Fishman writes on Just Dont Think Ill Scream, and how the fun of binge-watching has started to curdle As the pandemic nears a one-year mark, it can feel like we’re going around in circles. We survived 2020 only to wind up right back where we started. Of course, things have changed to an extent — the seismic impact of t...

New Steve McQueen documentaries unveiled Sir Steve McQueen (Ian West/PA) Sir Steve McQueen has announced two new BBC documentaries – on one of the “biggest scandals in the history of British education”, and the Black Power  movement. Subnormal will examine how black children in the 1960s and 1970s were disproportionately sent to schools for the so-called ‘educationally subnormal’, the BBC said. Black Power is described as a “searing account of the Black Power movement”. Both “d...

BBC films about Black power and ESN schools to be produced by Steve McQueen McQueen will be the executive producer of the film projects and said that many of the people that appear in the documentaries will be “telling their stories for the first time.” EXECUTIVE DECISIONS: Steve McQueens new films are inspired by the Small Axe series on BBC Photo by David M. Benett/Dave Benett/WireImage OSCAR-WINNING director Steve McQueen is to start production on films for the BBC about the Black power ...

New Steve McQueen documentaries unveiled PA 29 January 2021, 10:09 am Sir Steve McQueen has announced two new BBC documentaries – on one of the “biggest scandals in the history of British education”, and the Black Power movement. Subnormal will examine how black children in the 1960s and 1970s were disproportionately sent to schools for the so-called ‘educationally subnormal’, the BBC said. Black Power is described as a “searing account of the Black Power movement”. Both “docume...

Black Power (w/t), directed by BAFTA-nominated George Amponsah (The Hard Stop), and Subnormal, directed by Lyttanya Shannon — with both films originating from filmmaker Steve McQueen ( 12 Years A Slave, Small Axe). Black Power (w/t; 1 x 90 minutes for BBC2 and BBC iPlayer) will examine how the Black Power movement came into being in the late 1960s and fought against police brutality and racism. It will feature archive of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcom X and Stokely Carmichael’s activitie...

Updated / Thursday, 28 Jan 2021 12:47 Small Axe and 12 Years a Slave director Steve McQueen will be among the guests for this years wholly online Virgin Media Dublin International Film Festival [VMDIFF], which takes place from 3 to 14 March. The Oscar winner will take part in a special interview with Irish filmmaker Mark OHalloran.  We need your consent to load this YouTube contentWe use YouTube to manage extra content that can set cookies on your device and collect data about your activity....

John Boyega and Robert De Niro are to star in a new Netflix Formula One drama together called 'The Formula'.

John Boyega has experience with blockbusters thanks to his role as Finn in the Star Wars films, and he explained how such films can be like a “luxury jail” for actors. Boyega did a Q&A for his new film Small Axe: Red, White and Blue directed by 12 Years a Slave’s Steve McQueen and was asked to compare how working on a big franchise contrasts with smaller, independent films. “Being in a big franchise, it’s kind of like luxury jail sometimes for an actor when you want to do somethin...