steve mcqueen
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Exclusive Extended Trailer: 'If You Are the Big Tree, We Are the Small Axe'
Small Axe, director Steve McQueen’s anthology collection of five films, three of which (Lovers Rock, Mangrove and Red,White and Blue) recently premiered at the New York Film Festival (NYFF), will soon be available to view for the public starting this month. “I dedicate these films to George Floyd, and all the other Black people that…
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Steve McQueen Says Black Brits Influence All of British Culture and That Black Talent Should Be Able to Make 'Crappy' Films, Too
Steve McQueen is pretty damn passionate when it comes to Black creators. In a recent interview with Esquire UK, McQueen discussed the impact of Black British people on the totality of British culture and the creative freedom of Black talent, while promoting his film anthology series Small Axe. When it comes to cultural appropriation (and…
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John Boyega to Star in Steve McQueen Series Portraying a Police Officer Who Wants to Change the Force From Within
John Boyega is workin’…and it looks like his portrayal will be tackling a timely and often controversial topic: police brutality. Back in 2019, Variety broke the news that Boyega would be joining Letitia Wright in an upcoming anthology series from Steve McQueen (12 Years a Slave, Widows) entitled Small Axe. At the time, not much…
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Steve McQueen, on the Blackest Soundtrack of America and Music’s Impact on His Filmmaking
It’s African American Music Appreciation Month and filmmaker extraordinaire Steve McQueen certainly has an appreciation for music. In fact, he proved it by directing an entire Soundtrack of America. Presented by the Shed, The Soundtrack of America showcased “emerging musicians and performing artists celebrating the unrivaled impact of African-American Music on contemporary culture” on Manhattan’s west…
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Viola Davis: 'If I were not a celebrity, I’d be invisible'
“I always say that if I were not a celebrity, I’d be invisible” said Viola Davis as she sat across from NPR’s Audie Cornish. The Emmy, the Tony and the Academy Award-winning actress is a black woman from South Carolina. Her father trained horses and her mother was a maid. The harsh reality is, if…
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Viola Davis Only Lasting 2 Days of a 28-Day Cleanse Is All of Us
We are now firmly in the holiday season—or, as I like to call it, “food-pocalypse,” because it is the suspension of all rationale. Specifically, each Halloween to New Year’s Eve is the time of year that I, like most, give up trying to be virtuous and succumb to the lure of holiday parties, happy hours…
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Sade Returns With 'The Big Unknown'
Earlier this year, Sade breathed life into Ava DuVernay’s A Wrinkle in Time with “Flower of the Universe”—her first new song in seven years. But thankfully the wait for new music won’t be nearly as long. As she’s back with another offering for Steve McQueen’s highly anticipated new film, Widows. “The Big Unknown,” complete with…