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'The Big Cigar' Is Captivating — But Struggles To Reconcile Man And Legend
HuffPost via Yahoo News· 2 hours agoSure, it’s one presumably not many audiences already know. Bert, a producer behind the seminal 1969...
The Big Cigar Is An Entertaining but Overstuffed New Hollywood caper
TV Fanatic· 11 hours agoHuey P. Newton, the co-founder of The Black Panther Party, had befriended a group of countercultural...
‘The Big Cigar’ tells the wild story of Huey P. Newton’s fake-movie adventure in Hollywood
CNN via Yahoo News· 38 minutes agoLong before “fake news,” “The Big Cigar” looks back to the time of a fake movie – specifically, one...
In well-made series 'The Big Cigar,' Huey P. Newton plots 'Argo'-style escape to Cuba
Chicago Sun-Times· 11 hours agoNewton was on the run from the feds when he hatched a plan to flee to Cuba, with the help of his...
‘The Big Cigar’ Review: Apple TV+ Limited Series Should’ve Been a Movie
The Wrap via Yahoo News· 11 hours agoAndré Holland provides the best moments from a six-episode drama that should’ve been told in a...
‘The Big Cigar’ review: When a Black Panther founder fled to Cuba with the help of a Hollywood...
Chicago Tribune· 1 hour agoStop me if you’ve heard this one: A Black Panther revolutionary and a Hollywood insider walk into a...
Roger Corman interview: ‘Horror today just gets gorier and gorier’
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 5 days agoRoger Corman, director and producer of hundreds of films including 1960’s Little Shop of Horrors,...
Black Panthers Meet New Hollywood in 'The Big Cigar': Review
Time via Yahoo News· 20 hours agoBert’s solution? Plot Huey’s escape as though it’s a blockbuster movie. Tiffany Boone and André...
'The Big Cigar' dramatizes Black Panther Huey P. Newton's Hollywood ties and escape to Cuba
Los Angeles Times· 11 hours agoIt’s based on a 2012 Playboy magazine article by Joshuah Bearman, whose earlier reporting provided...
Andre Holland channels Black Panther’s Huey Newton
Boston Herald· 4 days agoJust as the 1960s Black political activist and lawmaker Shirley Chisholm was elevated from obscurity by Regina King’s recent biopic “Shirley,” is “The...