The New York Times

In ‘The Big Cigar,’ a Black Panther Stars in a Fake Movie

This new series is based on the unlikely true story of a Hollywood producer who used a bogus film production to help Huey Newton flee to Cuba in 1974. By Chris Vognar When the movie producer Bert ...
Rolling Stone

‘The Big Cigar’ Is About Black Panthers Founder Huey P. Newton. But Its Real Message Is: ‘Hollywood, Fuck Yeah!’

At one point in the new Apple TV+ miniseries The Big Cigar, Black Panther Party founder Huey P. Newton (André Holland) attends a party and recalls the time he and film producer Bert Schneider ...