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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Photographed by Parisa Taghizedeh / Amazon Prime Video. The day after Amarah-Jae St. Aubyn’s on-screen debut, Lovers Rock, released in the UK, the breakout actress spent her entire morning listening ...

Amid the racial turmoil in Britain's West Indian communities during the late 1970s, a mellow sound called lovers' rock ...

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 ...

An exhibition and a Zoom discussion aim to dispel some of the prevailing lovers rock history. 1970’s Lovers Rock Exhibition is the first exhibition to focus on the 1970s heady days of the reggae genre ...

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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 ...