Although the holidays have come and gone, a new slate of movies on Prime Video gives us the perfect excuse to continue our movie marathon into January.
Whether you’re in the mood for wild adventure — from a perilous journey to protect a sacred religious relic from Nazi forces to finally letting loose on the eve of your high school graduation — a heartfelt romance, or something to take you back to spooky season, we have your streaming plans covered.
Read on for the best new movies on Amazon Prime Video this January.
“If Beale Street Could Talk” (Available Jan. 1) Annapurna Pictures
Hailing from “Moonlight” director Barry Jenkins and based on the transformative 1974 novel by James Baldwin, “If Beale Street Could Talk” follows an evocative love story embattled by injustice in the 1970s. KiKi Layne and Stephan James star as best friends turned lovers, Tish and Fonny, respectively, as they struggle...
Whether you’re in the mood for wild adventure — from a perilous journey to protect a sacred religious relic from Nazi forces to finally letting loose on the eve of your high school graduation — a heartfelt romance, or something to take you back to spooky season, we have your streaming plans covered.
Read on for the best new movies on Amazon Prime Video this January.
“If Beale Street Could Talk” (Available Jan. 1) Annapurna Pictures
Hailing from “Moonlight” director Barry Jenkins and based on the transformative 1974 novel by James Baldwin, “If Beale Street Could Talk” follows an evocative love story embattled by injustice in the 1970s. KiKi Layne and Stephan James star as best friends turned lovers, Tish and Fonny, respectively, as they struggle...
- 1/14/2023
- by Loree Seitz
- The Wrap
The late Sidney Poitier had a career that included some truly game-changing films, including "Guess Who's Coming To Dinner" and "In The Heat of the Night". Even his lesser-known works, like the supremely underrated Western "Buck and the Preacher," were notable for how they dealt with the topic of race.
One of Poitier's biggest films, "To Sir, With Love," has him portraying Mark Thackeray, a teacher who takes up work at a school in London's rough-and-tumble East End. Thackeray ends up winning over his students over the course of the film, including Judy Geeson's Pamela Dare. It even gave birth to a whole subgenre of...
The post One of Sidney Poitier's Most Memorable Scenes Was Made Up On The Spot appeared first on /Film.
One of Poitier's biggest films, "To Sir, With Love," has him portraying Mark Thackeray, a teacher who takes up work at a school in London's rough-and-tumble East End. Thackeray ends up winning over his students over the course of the film, including Judy Geeson's Pamela Dare. It even gave birth to a whole subgenre of...
The post One of Sidney Poitier's Most Memorable Scenes Was Made Up On The Spot appeared first on /Film.
- 3/14/2022
- by Collier Jennings
- Slash Film
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(In light of Sidney Poiter's recent passing, we are re-running this article by Eve Goldberg that was originally posted in May, 2021.)
By Eve Goldberg
To Sir, With Love (1967) is a classroom drama set in London’s working-class East End during the swinging 1960s. It’s a well-scripted, well-acted, and well-directed film of the “good teacher vs unruly students” subgenre. But, more than anything else, To Sir, With Love is a Sidney Poitier film. It’s Poitier’s persona and charisma, his decency and humanity, that shine through in every scene. And, it’s Poitier at the apex of his acting career—In the Heat of the Night and Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner were also released that same year. The film has aged surprisingly well, and is still enjoyable to watch. But it’s as an artifact of the Sidney Poitier oeuvre...
(In light of Sidney Poiter's recent passing, we are re-running this article by Eve Goldberg that was originally posted in May, 2021.)
By Eve Goldberg
To Sir, With Love (1967) is a classroom drama set in London’s working-class East End during the swinging 1960s. It’s a well-scripted, well-acted, and well-directed film of the “good teacher vs unruly students” subgenre. But, more than anything else, To Sir, With Love is a Sidney Poitier film. It’s Poitier’s persona and charisma, his decency and humanity, that shine through in every scene. And, it’s Poitier at the apex of his acting career—In the Heat of the Night and Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner were also released that same year. The film has aged surprisingly well, and is still enjoyable to watch. But it’s as an artifact of the Sidney Poitier oeuvre...
- 1/14/2022
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
Sidney Poitier’s family remembered the Hollywood giant as a humanitarian, a leader and a devoted artist in a statement issued Friday evening, a day after his death at the age of 94.
The actor, who became the first Black person to win the Oscar for lead actor with 1963’s “Lilies of the Field,” died at his home in Los Angeles on Jan. 6. Poitier was Hollywood’s first major Black box office star, constantly blazing trails with film roles such as Dr. John Wade Prentice in “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner” and Mark Thackeray in “To Sir, With Love,” as well as with his activism in the heart of the Civil Rights era. Along with many prominent Hollywood figures, his family reflected on his legacy of art and compassion.
“There are no words to convey the deep sense of loss and sadness we are feeling right now. We are so grateful...
The actor, who became the first Black person to win the Oscar for lead actor with 1963’s “Lilies of the Field,” died at his home in Los Angeles on Jan. 6. Poitier was Hollywood’s first major Black box office star, constantly blazing trails with film roles such as Dr. John Wade Prentice in “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner” and Mark Thackeray in “To Sir, With Love,” as well as with his activism in the heart of the Civil Rights era. Along with many prominent Hollywood figures, his family reflected on his legacy of art and compassion.
“There are no words to convey the deep sense of loss and sadness we are feeling right now. We are so grateful...
- 1/8/2022
- by Selome Hailu
- Variety Film + TV
Over the holidays, TCM showed one of my favorite movies of all time, 1967’s “To Sir With Love. “ It stars Sidney Poitier as Mark Thackeray from British Guyana who takes a job as a teacher in the East End of London filled rowdy Cockney students who have little interest in their curriculum. Sir, as his class calls him, realizes that what these teens need is a course in how to make a life for themselves in the world outside a classroom.
Eventually, his pupils realize that he has their best interests at heart and they celebrate at a dance before his flock flies off into real world . Seeing a sexy and sweaty Poitier cut a rug by doing the Pony and the Jerk with Judy Geeson’s flirtatious student was just like receiving an extra surprise gift under my tree.
Little did I know that this silver screen legend, who...
Eventually, his pupils realize that he has their best interests at heart and they celebrate at a dance before his flock flies off into real world . Seeing a sexy and sweaty Poitier cut a rug by doing the Pony and the Jerk with Judy Geeson’s flirtatious student was just like receiving an extra surprise gift under my tree.
Little did I know that this silver screen legend, who...
- 1/8/2022
- by Susan Wloszczyna
- Gold Derby
Sidney Poitier, the trailblazing and iconic Black actor, director, civil rights activist and humanitarian, has died, the Bahamian Minister of Foreign Affairs announced Friday.
Details of his death were not immediately available.
The first Black actor to win the Academy Award for Best Actor — for 1964’s Lilies of the Field — Poitier was towering figure in Hollywood and beyond, starring in such classics as A Raisin in the Sun, Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner, In the Heat of the Night and To Sir With Love, to name a select few, while taking on a global profile for his unceasing calls for civil rights, racial equality and human dignity.
Offscreen, Poitier’s work and support for civil rights in the 1960s put him at the forefront of the movement and made him one of its most prominent public faces. He attended, along with his lifelong friend Harry Belafonte, the 1963 March on Washington,...
Details of his death were not immediately available.
The first Black actor to win the Academy Award for Best Actor — for 1964’s Lilies of the Field — Poitier was towering figure in Hollywood and beyond, starring in such classics as A Raisin in the Sun, Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner, In the Heat of the Night and To Sir With Love, to name a select few, while taking on a global profile for his unceasing calls for civil rights, racial equality and human dignity.
Offscreen, Poitier’s work and support for civil rights in the 1960s put him at the forefront of the movement and made him one of its most prominent public faces. He attended, along with his lifelong friend Harry Belafonte, the 1963 March on Washington,...
- 1/7/2022
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
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