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Theres always joy within the pain: Steve McQueen on Mangrove and Black Lives Matter movement Rasha Ali, USA TODAY © GREGORIO BORGIA/AP Director Steve McQueens Small Axe anthology series tells the story of Black struggle, but also Black joy and resilience. Steve McQueens "Small Axe" film series sheds light on untold stories of Black peoples experiences with racial discrimination and police harassment, but amid the trauma, he also highlights two key themes: Black joy and Bl...

Small Axe Cinematographer Steps Into Spotlight With Steve McQueens Film Series Courtesy of Amazon Prime Video From left: Partygoers take to the dance floor in a swirl of music in Lovers Rock.; Malachi Kirby (standing) plays real-life activist Darcus Howe, seen rising to his own defense in Mangrove. Relative newcomer Shabier Kirchner has become a critics darling for his dexterous eye, capturing everything from a kaleidoscopic party to the courtrooms harsh glare. A relative newcomer to the worl...

The 10 Best Films of 2020, Now Available to Stream Critic Jason Shawhan rounds up his favorites of the year, from American Utopia to Tweet As a lead-up to this year’s installment of the Scenes annual Jim Ridley Memorial Film Poll — coming in print and online Jan. 14 — here’s my own personal "Best Of" for the cinema of 2020, as well as where they can be streamed, rented or bought. So many things can be said about 2020, most of them unpalatable to delicate sensi...

Courtesy of HBO Max; Enda Bowe/Hulu; Courtesy of Apple TV+.; LARA SOLANKI/NETFLIX; COURTESY OF NETFLIX With Emmy winners Watchmen and Succession out of the running, a handful of newcomers — from The Flight Attendant to Never Have I Ever — are hoping to charm the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. Hindsight tells us that the Hollywood Foreign Press Association often employs its annual Golden Globe Awards to serve two conflicting agendas: glad-handing the starry establishment and anointing ...

Posted on Wednesday, January 6th, 2021 by Hoai-Tran Bui There’s the temptation every year to say, “This was a bad year for movies,” which is rarely ever the case. But 2020 certainly flirted with that idea, with the pandemic pushing many studio films to next year and making all other films nearly impossible to watch without a press badge at a film festival. More than anything, it was a weird year for movies, a year where entertainment became a safe haven from the horrors of reality and whe...

Sheyi Cole explains how he channeled Alex Wheatle in the Small Axe film of the same name since the British writer is still alive.

Dec 31, 2020 - Cinemas might've been closed, but this year was still a great one for movies.

The Flickering Myth writing team share our top ten movies of 2020… And so we come to the end of 2020 – a year which I’m sure virtually everyone is glad to see behind us. The past twelve months been a hugely difficult and trying time for all, what with events that have engulfed the globe, and as we turn our attention to 2021 and – hopefully – the prospect of a brighter future, it’s time to cast our eye back over the cinematic offerings that have kept us entertained and enthralled thr...

A River Called Time by Courttia Newland review – a vivid alternate reality Adam Roberts © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Howard Kingsnorth/Getty Images It speaks to the hold TV still has over our culture that Courttia Newland, the author of seven novels and co-editor of The Penguin Book of New Black Writing in Britain, is best known today for the scripts he wrote for Steve McQueen’s BBC series Small Axe. Excellent scripts they are, too, and there is something tele...

2 months old On race in 2020, we took a step forward – from minus 10 to zero. We cant afford to go back This article is more than 2 months old Until this year, even talking about structural racism risked hostility, so there’s progress. If only the UK government felt the same John Boyega as Leroy Logan in Red, White and Blue, part of Steve McQueen’s 2020 Small Axe film series. Photograph: Will Robson-Scott/BBC/McQueen Limited John Boyega as Leroy Logan in Red, White and Blue, part...