Daily Archives: January 7, 2022

For much of his career, the actor represented many different things to many people, but a constant was his sheer artistry.

Poitier was the first Black actor to win a Best Actor Oscar, for 1963’s Lilies of the Field. His good looks and smooth, commanding presence made him an icon to generations of moviegoers.

A game John Cena takes the lumbering, emotionally stunted mercenary he played in The Suicide Squad to the small screen. The cast lunges at every repetitive joke, but fans of the movie will eat it up.

The Iranian film A Hero is about a man who becomes a celebrity after doing a good deed. In filmmaker Asghar Farhadi’s hands, what seems to be a black and white morality tale becomes more gray.