The British Invasion began in the early 1960s when acts from the United Kingdom started finding success in the United States. Most music lovers would assert that the Beatles were the first British act ...
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 ...
If you've seen any of Steve McQueen's work, then you already know that the British filmmaker has got a knack for tackling serious issues and telling powerful stories. But with Lovers Rock, McQueen has ...
If you’ve seen “Hunger,” “Shame,” or his Oscar-winning “12 Years a Slave,” you know that director Steve McQueen has a singular gift for plunging viewers into his characters’ central nervous systems, ...
Lovers Rock [sic] was a small British record label founded in the mid-70s, though the name also became synonymous with the label’s brand of romantic, R&B-inflected reggae. According to the ...
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 ...
BAFTA-winning filmmaker Steve McQueen's first Small Axe film aired on BBC One on Sunday Nov. 15 and it's safe to say it left viewers in their feelings. He has directed five new films exploring the ...
With “Lovers Rock,” the wonderful opening-night movie at this year’s dramatically overhauled New York Film Festival, the director Steve McQueen sets aside the spectacles of cruelty that have so often ...