In the first page of our materials written for Steve McQueen’s Small Axe anthology we considered Mangrove, the first of five films about the British black (mainly West Indian) community over a period from the 1960s to the 1980s. On this page, we turn our attention to the fourth (sic) film in the anthology, Alex Wheatle. Eponymously named, the film is a coming-of-age story, based on the life of the (real) writer, Alex...