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ATX Television Festival revealed the first handful of titles set to take center stage for its virtual season 10 event. Showtime’s Ziwe, Steve McQueen’s Small Axe and Fox’s HouseBroken will be among the featured titles for the annual television event, which will run from June 11 to 20. The 2021 edition will be the…

UPDATED with video: John Boyega won a Golden Globe for Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Supporting Role on Sunday for his work in Steve McQueen’s anthology series Small Axe. Boyega, who rose to prominence in the Star Wars franchise, played Leroy Logan in the “Red, White and Blue” segment of Small Axe…

Members of the Los Angeles Film Critics Association (LAFCA) are gathering Sunday to vote for their annual year’s best in movies. The group will begin deliberating over winners in 14 categories, honoring a winner and a runner-up. LAFCA named Steve McQueen's Small Axe as Best Picture with Chloe Zhao's Nomadland as the…

The careers of Ryan Murphy and Steve McQueen will be celebrated at next month’s Gotham Awards. The Independent Filmmaker Project, which produces the Gothams, said McQueen will receive a Director's Tribute, and Murphy will receive the Industry Tribute. Due to Covid-19, the January 11 ceremony will still take place at…

Steve McQueen's Small Axe portmanteau of five roughly hourlong films centered on racial issues in second-half 20th century UK wraps up with Education, which, at the end of the day, is what the series is all about: education in terms of the efforts of different segments of the population to begin to understand each…

“This account doesn’t exist” and a blank page is what Twitter users will encounter when they try to search Black Panther star Letitia Wright on the social media platform. Just a days after the Small Axe actress shared a link to a 70-minute YouTube video by a coronavirus vaccine skeptic, Wright deleted both her Twitter…

With the arrival of Alex Wheatle, the fourth of five installments that make up Small Axe, Steve McQueen's adamant and penetrating series of roughly hourlong dramas centering on the Black immigrant community experience in post-World War II Britain, the emerging core concern is the hypocrisy involved in the nation…

Amazon Prime Video has released the trailer for Red, White and Blue starring John Boyega, the third film in Steve McQueen's Small Axe anthology series — and this installment is just as timely as the other films in the series. Debuting on the streamer December 4, Red, White and Blue is based on a true story that…

It’s been more than six years in the making, but Steve McQueen’s anthology drama Small Axe finally has a date for when it will land on British TV screens. The BBC has announced that it will premiere the five-part series on November 15 on BBC One and iPlayer. This is five days before it debuts on Amazon Prime in the U.S…

Red, White and Blue, the third and final installment of Steve McQueen's Small Axe quintet of films about racial issues specific to Great Britain being world premiered at the New York Film Festival, zeroes in on the ordeal of a young black Londoner set on helping to definitively break the color barrier at London's…

BBC Studios has closed a raft of global deals for Steve McQueen’s hotly-anticipated anthology drama Small Axe, which will premiere on BBC One in the UK and Amazon in the U.S. Australia’s Foxtel, France’s Salto, Spain’s Movistar+, Russia’s KinoPoisk, and Greece’s Cosmote TV are among the territories to have picked up…

If Lovers Rock provided a sensuous, feel-good vibe to the opening night of this year's unusual New York Film Festival, Mangrove supplies a follow-up thwack to the head and punch to the gut. When Steve McQueen's ambitious, five-part Small Axe miniseries is presented on Amazon Prime beginning November 20, Mangrove will…