‘Red, White & Blue’ Trailer: Amazon Teases Another Steve McQueen ‘Small Axe’ Film

Peter Debruge Chief Film Critic“Education.” That’s as good a title as any for the final episode of Steve McQueen’s “Small Axe” project — a series of five features, some little more than an hour, designed to educate and inform audiences about the experience of London’s West Indian immigrant population, about the expectations of assimilation raised by a white-majority country and the obstacles such a society puts in the way of that goal.To get the picture, audiences needn’t see every entry of

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Steve McQueen and Ryan Murphy are set to receive the Gotham Independent Film Awards' director's and industry tributes, respectively. The two will be recognized alongside actor's tribute honoree Chadwick Boseman and actress tribute honoree Viola Davis, both of whom are starring in George C.

The “first” awards show of what will be a very long Oscar season, the Gotham Awards, already announced their 2020 nominees last month. While “First Cow” and “I May Destroy You” topped the list of nominees, two tributes were also revealed for both Chadwick Boseman and Viola Davis.

With anticipated films delayed, theaters closed, and festivals canceled or refurbished to virtual affairs, there has been little in big, prestigious movie events for audiences to rally around in 2020. Steven McQueen‘s five-film anthology series “Small Axe” may be as close to a buzz-worthy event as we’ll get in the current movie climate.

Also Read: Steve McQueen Calls His New 'Small Axe' Cinematographer 'a Skater and a Sailor'(There’s a sequence in which a “teacher” subjects the class to his atonal guitar-playing and vocals on a rendition of “House of the Rising Sun” that goes on and on, achieving an Andy Kaufman-like level of hilarity and discomfort.)When Kingsley tries to tell his parents what’s going on, they are resistant; his mother Agnes (Sharlene Whyte), exhausted from working multiple jobs, isn’t listening at first, and

Steve McQueen’s Small Axe portmanteau of five roughly hourlong films centered on racial issues in second-half 20th century UK wraps up with Education, which, at the end of the day, is what the series is all about: education in terms of the efforts of different segments of the population to begin understand each other, to cast off ill-informed presumptions and long-entrenched prejudices, creating more opportunities and learning that the “other” should ideally create more possibilities than

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Jazz Tangcay Artisans EditorDirector Steve McQueen’s new five-part anthology series, “Small Axe,” takes starts in the late ’60s and ends in the mid-’80s, following the West Indian community in London through the decades.

One of 2020’s few joys has been Steve McQueen’s Amazon anthology “Small Axe,” a series telling, in some instances for the first time, the stories of the Black Brits who faced oppression during the ’60s and ’70s. While “Mangrove” touted empowerment through self-representation, “Lovers Rock” through music, and “Red, White and Blue” through reform from within, “Alex Wheatle” calls for literature as a gateway to freedom.

This late fall has been a treat because we’ve received a new Steve McQueen (“12 Years A Slave,” “Widows“) week every week for the last three weeks; when does that happen? And they are all part of McQueen’s new five-film anthology series, “Small Axe,” based on the Jamaican proverb, “If you are the big tree, we are the small axe.” Three films have debuted at the New York Film Festival earlier this fall, and those three have now aired on Amazon Prime Video.

Watch Video: 'Small Axe' Trailer: John Boyega, Letitia Wright Tackle London Racism in Anthology SeriesWhen Alex arrives in Brixton, he’s a fish out of water in the neighborhood; neighbor Dennis (Jonathan Jules, “Fighting With My Family”) takes it upon himself to fix Alex’s wardrobe, hair and inability to speak the Jamaican dialect. “I’m not African,” Alex tells the barber who has referred to him as such.

With the arrival of Alex Wheatle, the fourth of five installments that make up Small Axe, Steve McQueen’s adamant and penetrating series of roughly hourlong dramas centering on the Black immigrant community experience in post-World War II Britain, the emerging core concern is the hypocrisy involved in the nation laying out the welcome mat to newcomers in the first place while denying opportunity once they’ve arrived.

Jazz Tangcay Artisans Editor“Mangrove,” now streaming on Amazon Prime, is the first in the five-part anthology, “Small Axe” by director Steve McQueen. Spanning two decades, the films are standalones tracing the West Indian experience with reggae music and costume tying all five films together.Costume designer Jacqueline Durran oversaw all five films, while individual designers worked on each installment.

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It feels like we’ve been talking about who might become the next James Bond for years now. Partially, that’s because Daniel Craig made it very clear that he was done with the franchise after the upcoming film, “No Time to Die.” And then there’s the fact that “No Time to Die” has been delayed numerous times.

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorIn “Small Axe,” Steve McQueen’s new Amazon anthology series about the Black experience in the U.K., John Boyega stars in the third installment — “Red, White and Blue” — as Leroy Logan, a real-life police officer in 1980s London.“He’s a scientist, a father, a community man and a husband who decides to join the police force in order to motivate change,” Boyega, 28, says on this week’s episode of the Variety and iHeart podcast “The Big