Sidney Poitier is the subject of a documentary currently in development for Apple Original Films with Oprah Winfrey set to executive produce. The documentary, from Winfrey’s Harpo Productions and ...
Oprah Winfrey will executive produce and Reginald Hudlin will direct the film on the screen legend, which has been in the making for more than a year. By Rebecca Keegan Senior Editor, Film A ...
“Sidney,” a documentary tribute to the trailblazing Black movie star Sidney Poitier, was produced by Oprah Winfrey, and it leans far more toward one-dimensional inspiration than insight. Important ...
Ross Bonaime is the Senior Film Editor at Collider. He is a Virginia-based critic, writer, and editor who has written about all forms of entertainment for Paste Magazine, Brightest Young Things, ...
As a newborn, Sidney Poitier — the legendary actor who passed away at 94 in January — was already at death’s door. “I was not expected to live,” says Poitier in the new documentary “Sidney,” which ...
It was the most unlikely of beginnings. Newly arrived from the Bahamas with a thick West Indian accent, Sidney Poitier fumbled his lines so badly when he tried out for the American Negro Theatre in ...
In theory there’s only so much to be done with a celebrity biography, but when the subject is Sidney Poitier, that’s an unusually target-rich environment. “Sidney,” a documentary from director ...