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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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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, 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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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 …
[Read more...] about Mangrove and Ultraviolence are two angles on UK police brutality
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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