A Caribbean-themed bar with all sorts of inventive cocktails opened in late July at 419 Tompkins Avenue in Bed Stuy. Lovers Rock is across the street from BBQ joint Peaches Hothouse and around the ...

Steve McQueen's upcoming film Lovers Rocks airs on BBC One Sunday, November 22, as part of his Small Axe anthology series exploring the Black experience in Britain during the 60s and 80s. The new film ...

Black joy undoubtedly exists. The diaspora would never have survived all that has been thrust upon it without these moments of levity. However, throughout the history of cinema, studios and filmmakers ...

At the end of Steve McQueen’s Lovers Rock – a new film that both opens the New York Film Festival Thursday night and opens McQueen’s five part anthology coming to Amazon, Small Axe (a West Indian ...

This is a mini review of a movie that deserves a mountain of superlatives. This is a mini review of a movie that deserves a mountain of superlatives. Part of Steve McQueen's "Small Axe" series on ...

We’re approaching the time of year when critics are releasing their “best of” lists. My “Movies 101” partners and I will be doing the same sometime in the coming weeks. For now, though, I want to talk ...

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 ...

Director Steve McQueen conjures the sensual atmosphere and freedom of a 1980 house party in Lovers Rock, a feature from his Small Axe anthology for Amazon about London's West Indian community. By ...

Note: NPR's First Listen audio comes down after the album is released. However, you can still listen with the Spotify or Apple Music playlist at the bottom of the page. Estelle's Lovers Rock — named ...

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, ...