Steve McQueen's work stirs up a familiar debate, but it's one that distracts from the project's relevance and needs to be settled. Beyond its beautiful performances and unobtrusive period aesthetic, ...
The line between film and television has been blurred for years. Some of us thought it would be one film that would force the call, but coincidentally, it seems to be five films that encapsulate Steve ...
In any year, Steve McQueen’s “Small Axe” would be a historic achievement. But in 2020, amid a worldwide reckoning on racial injustice while a pandemic has wreaked havoc on the entertainment industry — ...
Small Axe has an interesting title, which is derived from a Jamaican proverb: "If you are the big tree, we are the small axe," which means that marginalized voices, no matter how small, can still ...
Much has been written about Golden Globe voters’ love of British TV. This, however, is not that story. This is an ode to miniseries or TV movie nominee “Small Axe,” a wholly fresh and original U.K.
The scene may serve as comic relief, but it’s also as revealing as anything else in “Mangrove,” the first entry in Mr. McQueen’s five-film anthology “Small Axe” to arrive on Amazon Prime. The series, ...
Discover What’s Streaming On: Contrary to what Hollywood may have lead you to believe, royalty and white twenty-somethings falling in love are not the only people living in England. But despite ...
Steve McQueen’s “Small Axe,” an anthology of five films set in Black areas of London over a period of decades, has been named the best film of 2020 by the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, which ...