Steve McQueen has made five films worthy of your attention, but which one grabbed our attention the most?

The esteemed British filmmaker best known for his award-winning feature 12 Years a Slave has commented on a shift in the industry for Black artists and creators.

Amazon has released a new extended trailer for Steve McQueen's five-film anthology Small Axe, which will begin rolling out on Prime Video this month. McQueen is the Oscar-winning filmmaker behind 12 Years a Slave, and he has spent the past couple years working on this passion project, which was commissioned by the BBC. Small Axe is comprised of five films set between the late '60s and the mid '80s that tell personal stories from London's West Indian community. The first film, Mangrove, will premiere on Friday, Nov. 20. Shaun Parkes stars as Frank Crichlow, the owner …

Steve McQueen is one of the best filmmakers working today, and now we have our first real look at his new project Small Axe, an anthology of five original films that will begin rolling out on Amazon Prime Video this November. McQueen is the Oscar-winning filmmaker behind 12 Years a Slave, as well as Hunger, Shame and Widows. He is a true artist in every sense of the word, and I'm excited to see what he's been working on for the past couple years, especially since Small Axe was clearly a passion project for the British writer-…

Director Steve McQueen is back with his new film Mangrove, which is part of a five-film series titled Small Axe that McQueen is overseeing for BBC Studios and Amazon. McQueen personally directed Mangrove, which is based on the true story of 150 protestors who marched to local police stations to protest police harassment in their communities. The film tells the story of the Mangrove 9, Black activists who clashed with the London police during a protest march in 1970 and the trial that followed. A new McQueen movie is obviously cause for excitement, and given the subject matter of …

From a formal command of cinematic language to an unflinching look at all of humanity, there aren't many directors like Steve McQueen working today (have you seen Widows? Ya gotta watch Widows). The award-winning director gets another feather in his cap thanks to the 2020 New York Film Festival. McQueen's Lovers Rock will open the entire festival, and two other McQueen films from the Small Axe anthology series of which Lovers Rock originates will debut later in the festival. McQueen will now join other luminous directors like Martin Scorsese, Ava DuVernay, and Quentin Tarantino who've seen …

The Cannes Film Festival has announced what would've been its 2020 lineup, which includes new films from Wes Anderson, Steve McQueen and Pixar. As expected, Anderson's The French Dispatch was offered an invitation, which makes sense since Cannes is a French festival. Its organizers love seeing stars roam the Croisette, and The French Dispatch boasts an all-star cast that includes Benicio Del Toro, Adrien Brody, Tilda Swinton, Lea Seydoux, Frances McDormand, Timothee Chalamet, Jeffrey Wright, Bill Murray, Owen Wilson, Liev Schreiber, Elisabeth Moss, Edward Norton, Willem Dafoe, Saoirse Ronan, Christoph Waltz, Jason Schwartzman, Tony Revolori, Rupert Friend, …

Oscar-winning filmmaker Steve McQueen has signed an overall deal with Amazon Studios and will produce a sci-fi series titled Last Days for the streaming service, it was announced Tuesday. Last Days is described as a gripping sci-fi thriller in which the world’s governments have secretly created a controversial plan to selectively colonize Mars in the wake of a dying Earth and the rise of AI. The series will follow one woman’s journey to explore the truth about where she came from, at the risk of losing everything she knows. "It's not as dystopian as …

Soldier In The Rain is a 1963 buddy comedy starring Jackie Gleason and Steve McQueen, though the latter isn't a comic natural.

Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon A Time In Hollywood includes a Steve McQueen cameo, but what’s the real-life backstory? We separate fact from fiction.

Finding Steve McQueen, an upcoming heist comedy from director Mark Steven Johnson (Daredevil, Ghost Rider), brings one of the most ridiculous robberies in United States history to the big screen. Centering on getaway driver Harry James Barber and a crew of fellow thieves from Youngstown, Ohio, the story follows their attempt to steal millions in illegal political contributions from Richard Nixon’s under-the-counter campaign fund. In the actual heist, the gang made off with about $9 million from the United California Bank, which translates into $54 million today. But unless this movie crew can get their acts together, …

I’ve got a few questions for you. Are you a fan of seeing movies before they’re in theaters? Will you be in the Los Angeles area March 11th? And, finally, would you like to see William Fichtner, Rachael Taylor, Rhys Coiro and director Mark Steven Johnson participate in a Q&A for their new movie, Finding Steve McQueen? If you answered yes to these questions I’m about to make you very happy. On March 11th at 7:30pm at the ArcLight Hollywood, Collider is partnering up with ArcLight Cinemas and Momentum Pictures for an early screening … The post L.A. Readers: Win Free Tickets to Our ‘Finding Steve McQueen’ Screening and Q&A appeared first on Collider.

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Momentum Pictures has released the trailer for Finding Steve McQueen, a heist comedy from director Mark Steven Johnson that dives into of the most ridiculous, yet little-known robberies in United States history. Vikings star Travis Fimmel stars as getaway driver Harry James Barber, who—along with a crew of fellow thieves from Youngstown, Ohio—tried to steal millions in under-the-counter campaign contributions from Richard Nixon's illegal fund. (In the true story, the gang made off with about $9 million from the United California Bank, around $54 million by today's standards.) The film also stars Rachael …