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'The Big Cigar' Gives 'Snapshot' of Huey P. Newton’s Life & Goes on 'Wild Ride'
TV Insider· 6 hours agoThe bio of Newton and the Party is not ignored, but this series’ focus takes place in 1974,when...
'Big Cigar' cast looks back on Black Panther leader's flight to Cuba
United Press International via Yahoo News· 7 days agoAndre Holland, Tiffany Boone, Alessandro Nivola and PJ Byrne discuss "The Big Cigar," on Apple FV+...
'The Big Cigar' Is Captivating — But Struggles To Reconcile Man And Legend
HuffPost via Yahoo News· 5 days agoSure, it’s one presumably not many audiences already know. Bert, a producer behind the seminal 1969...
‘The Big Cigar’ tells the wild story of Huey P. Newton’s fake-movie adventure in Hollywood
CNN via Yahoo News· 5 days agoLong before “fake news,” “The Big Cigar” looks back to the time of a fake movie – specifically, one...
‘The Big Cigar’ review: When a Black Panther founder fled to Cuba with the help of a Hollywood...
San Jose Mercury News· 1 day agoNewton and movie producer Bert Schneider, who made counterculture classics such as “Easy Rider” —...
The Big Cigar Is An Entertaining but Overstuffed New Hollywood caper
TV Fanatic· 5 days agoHuey P. Newton, the co-founder of The Black Panther Party, had befriended a group of countercultural...
‘Daisy Miller,’ Once Dismissed as Embarrassing Vanity Project, Is the Equal to ‘Last Picture Show’
Indiewire via Yahoo News· 6 days agoReader, you have been lied to! Film history is littered with unfairly maligned classics, whether...
Black Panthers Meet New Hollywood in 'The Big Cigar': Review
Time via Yahoo News· 5 days agoWith limited options, amid a movement antagonized by law enforcement and riven by internal strife,...
In well-made series 'The Big Cigar,' Huey P. Newton plots 'Argo'-style escape to Cuba
Chicago Sun-Times· 5 days agoNewton was on the run from the feds when he hatched a plan to flee to Cuba, with the help of his...
Remembering filmmaker Roger Corman, king of B-movies
NPR· 4 days agoBIANCULLI: Corman also directed a series of youth-in-revolt movies, such as "The Wild Angels." Starring in that one as the biker leader of the Hell's Angels was a pre-"Easy