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Dec 11, 2020 · These experiences are dramatized in the eponymous Alex Wheatle, the fourth installment of McQueen’s Small Axe series airing one per week on Amazon Prime from Nov. 20 through Dec. 18. “At points...
- Suyin Haynes
Dec 3, 2020 · For Alex Wheatle, arriving on the set of Steve McQueen’s latest Small Axe film was overwhelming. The Oscar-winning director had completely recreated his bedsit in a social services hostel...
- Ros Wynne Jones
Nov 30, 2020 · Alex Wheatle, the fourth film from Steve McQueen’s Small Axe anthology centres on the true story of award-winning writer, Alex Wheatle MBE, chronicling his early years, being thrown in prison during the Brixton Uprising of 1981 to finally discovering his passion for the written word.
Wheatle's life story features in Alex Wheatle, the fourth film in Small Axe, a 2020 anthology of five films by Steve McQueen about the West Indian community in the UK during the 1970s and 1980s. Alex Wheatle depicts Wheatle's life up to and just after the Brixton uprising.
Dec 7, 2020 · The fourth and penultimate film in the Small Axe series tells the true story of Alex Wheatle, now a celebrated author, who turned his life around after being jailed over the Brixton riots...
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- Ed Cumming
Nov 26, 2020 · Five years ago, in the writers’ room for Steve McQueen’s Small Axe series – five films focusing on the British black experience between the Sixties and Eighties – the director wanted to tell...
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A writer and a former top police officer share the stories that inspired TV show Small Axe.
