Small Axe Archive

Small Axe: Mangrove (Movie, Streaming, Amazon Prime) The prolific director Steve McQueen directed 5 films (‘Mangrove’, ‘Education’, ‘Lovers Rock’, ‘Alex Wheatle’, ‘Red, White, and Blue’)  this year about the black experience in London. They are all great and I strongly suggest you watch them. ...Read More

Review by James Lindorf Steve McQueen, the west London-raised son of a Trinidadian mother and a Grenadian father, made cinema history when 12 Years a Slave won the Academy Award for Best Picture. That film followed the injustice Solomon Northup suffered at the hands ...Read More