Small Axe

What’s better than one new Steve McQueen movie? Five new Steve McQueen movies! The brilliant anthology SMALL AXE has started releasing on Amazon Prime. All five films are about the West Indian immigrant community in London during the ‘60s and ‘70s. I’ve seen the first two, MANGROVE and LOVERS ROCK, and they are two of my favorite movies of the year. McQueen creates two very distinct films, as MANGROVE is a courtroom drama about the Mangrove 9, and LOVERS ROCK takes place almost entirely at a dance party. Both are visually stunning and impossible to look away from. I can’t wait to watch the final three. 

—Bennett Levine, Executive Assistant