As Steve McQueen's Blitz hits cinemas, we're bringing back our 2020 episode on his Small Axe series, which deals with a different chapter of Black British …
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Makeup and hair designer JoJo Williams shares stories from the set of Small Axe
JoJo Williams, who led the makeup and hair department on the entire Small Axe series, shares stories about working with Steve McQueen and fitting hundreds of …
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Ep. 72: Steve McQueen’s Small Axe
To cover Steve McQueen's ambitious Small Axe series, we have assembled one of our most ambitious episodes of the year. We discuss each film (or episode?) of …
Education Review: Small Axe ends on a note of bittersweet hope
Education, the final film in Steve McQueen's Small Axe anthology, explores systemic racism in the British schooling system and the West Indian women who …
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Mangrove and Ultraviolence are two angles on UK police brutality
Films about police brutality in the UK are sorely lacking, but this year's London Film Festival gave us two: Ken Fero's mishandled Ultraviolence and Steve …
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LFF Review: Safe spaces and gendered violence in Lovers Rock
Steve McQueen's Lovers Rock, the second installment in his Small Axe film anthology, celebrates the highs of a house party. It also explores the gendered …
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