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 Axequintet 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…
Small Axe, the anthology series created and directed by Academy Award, BAFTA, and Golden Globe-winning filmmaker Steve McQueen (Hunger, 12 Years A Slave), will premiere on Friday, November 20 with the first film, Mangrove, starring Letitia Wright & Shaun Parkes.Â
The four additional films will debut each Friday…
Applause is often the soundtrack of film festival screenings, especially on opening night. The New York Film Festival’s annual Lincoln Center bow features cascades of clapping as fest personnel, filmmakers and cast members take the stage and muse about the film before the lights go down.
At Thursday night’s start to…
Watching Lovers Rock is akin to going to see Romeo and Juliet and only staying through the first act, to departing a basketball game after the first quarter, to sipping the soup and skipping the rest of the meal. A mere wisp of a thing, Steve McQueen's 68-minute feature, the only fictional section of a five-film…
The New York Film Festival exudes tradition. Since 1963, its Lincoln Center commingling of culturati, Oscar hopefuls and cinephiliacs has been a mainstay of the city’s fall calendar and the global festival circuit.
This year, though, COVID-19 has thrown tradition to the wind and New York movie theaters and arts venues…
EXCLUSIVE: After blazing on the London art scene with work that won him the Turner Prize, Steve McQueen established himself as an important filmmaker who showed the unbreakable spirit of an Irish hunger strike in Hunger, and the horrors of antebellum slavery in 12 Years A Slave. For his latest work, he has turned…
EXCLUSIVE: The New York Film Festival’s unorthodox 58th edition, which starts next week, has added a drive-in at the Bronx Zoo to its roster of screening sites.
Three films have been confirmed to screen at the location, which has been built in the zoo’s south parking lot. Steve McQueen’s Lovers Rock, which is the…
The BFI London Film Festival’s (Oct 7 – 18) opening film will be Steve McQueen’s race drama Mangrove, starring Letitia Wright, Shaun Parkes and Malachi Kirby.
The film will get its European premiere on Wednesday 7 October as part of the festival’s 12-day hybrid physical and online program.
Marking 50 years since the…
The BBC has dropped the first trailer for Steve McQueen's Small Axe anthology series to mark 50 years since London’s Mangrove protest, when Black people demonstrated against police harassment.
The trailer focuses on Mangrove, one of five self-contained episodes in McQueen's series, which tells the story of the protest…
