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 ...

One of five anthology films directed by Steve McQueen about Black British life in the '60s through '80s, it's a time-machine reverie that lets the music do the talking. In the most transporting scene ...

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 ...

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 ...

Culture is a significant entity that stands as the makeup of one’s background and lifestyle. Culture is pride, worth and humanity. Culture has been at the forefront of the film industry for quite some ...

In the most transporting scene of Steve McQueen’s “Lovers Rock,” we’re at a London house party that has just hit its smoky seductive dirty-dancing groove. It’s 1980, and most of the revelers have West ...