Sidney Poitier was far more than just a symbol of racial progress
For much of his career, the actor represented many different things to many people, but a constant was his sheer artistry.
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For much of his career, the actor represented many different things to many people, but a constant was his sheer artistry.
For much of his career, the actor represented many different things to many people, but a constant was his sheer artistry.
1:56 Like any criticism, film criticism offers nearly infinite ways to look at its subject, far beyond simple value judgments or hot takes. I was recently reading James Baldwin’s 1976 book The Devil Finds Work, which is largely criticism of his own of films he’d seen throughout his life, and I’d be astonished by how much he packs into the book’s tidy 125 pages if it weren’t for the fact that this is James Baldwin, and so you expect to be astonished. He comes at his criticism from many different angles, but usually by discussing how the films relate to the reality of the society he...
AT WORK, DI Brian Peters is a senior member of the CID team. Experienced, popular and respected, in private he is a heavy-drinking depressive. Having led investigations into previous high profile cases in his home city of Bradford, including an international drug smuggling ring, he is now called upon to tackle the rise of the so-called ‘zombie’ drug Spice, in tandem with a series of murders. His journey into the dangerous, uncharted waters of the drug, which can cause organ failure, seizures, paranoia and a host of other conditions, forms the basis of a new book by author Ian McKnig...
The Untold Truth Of Denzel Washington The Untold Truth Of Denzel Washington Jason Merritt/Getty Images Denzel Washington was last seen on the screen in 2018's The Equalizer 2 (and won't return again until 2021 in The Little Things), but there's never a bad time to talk about one of our greatest living actors. Washington has played the most compassionate heroes, the cruelest villains, and the regular joes living somewhere in between, and he's never been less than brilliant no matter where he goes on that spectrum. He can do everything from Shakespeare to a trash-TV-based act...