The post Steve McQueen’s Lovers Rock Is a Reggae-Filled Celebration of Black Joy: NYFF Review appeared first on Consequence of Sound. The Pitch: In London’s West Indian community in 1980, a house ...

Steve McQueen‘s Small Axe, a series of five films about the West Indian experience in the UK in the ’60s, ’70s and ’80s, is currently airing on Amazon/BBC. The second Small Axe film, Lovers Rock, just ...

Steve McQueen’s new “Small Axe” anthology includes a film that centers on an offshoot of reggae that represented big shifts in the music, and in Black British culture. By Jeremy Gordon The lovesick ...

Lovers rock, often dubbed "romantic reggae," is a uniquely Black British sound. Musical documentary about lovers rock, often dubbed "romantic reggae," a uniquely Black British sound that developed in ...

Writer-director Steve McQueen’s five-part anthology, Small Axe, has already captivated Black cinephiles around the globe. The first two films — Mangrove and Lovers Rock — are wildly different, but ...

Lovers rock doesn’t ask for your permission. When the music saunters through the speakers, your shoulders give way to an easy sway before the rest of your body notices. The groove then takes hold and, ...

At the end of Steve McQueen’s Lovers Rock – a new film that both opens the New York Film Festival Thursday night and opens McQueen’s five part anthology coming to Amazon, Small Axe (a West Indian ...

Lisa Palmer does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...

The five films in Steve McQueen’s anthology series Small Axe explore police brutality, institutional racism, and the politics of protest. But they also celebrate a vibrant West Indian immigrant ...

A song needs to be exceptional if it’s going to occupy 10 minutes of a 69-minute movie. Steve McQueen’s “Lovers Rock,” one film in the Oscar-nominated director’s five-part “Small Axe” anthology series ...

Last night marked the opening of the 58Th New York Film Festival. A very different festival than any other year, as with all film festivals this year, as a result of the pandemic. Other than a handful ...

Usually, I’m the first to fall asleep in front of the TV during a popular Sunday evening drama. But I stayed wide awake during the second installment of Steve McQueen’s Small Axe series, Lovers Rock.