The film — adapted from Tarell Alvin McCraney’s play “In Moonlight Black Boys Look Blue”— follows Chiron through three chapters in his life, each titled after a different name Chiron is given: Little, ...

The first chapter introduces Chiron (played by Alex Hibbert) as a 10-year-old dubbed "Little" by the bullies who torment him. He has one friend, Kevin (Jaden Pinar).

Moonlight is now streaming on Netflix, so it's a good time to revisit Chiron's masterful romance. ... Chiron, and Black—coming to terms with himself at different points in his life.

There’s a 1989 film from filmmaker and gay rights activist Marlon Riggs called “Tongues Untied” that, among other things, addresses the intersection of being black and being gay. Part ...

The film’s title, MOONLIGHT, evokes its essential feeling, something delicate and ethereal, an element of the natural world conferring a sense of calm and even magic. Director Barry Jenkins The ...

One doesn't have to be gay or black to connect with Chiron's frightened sense of alienation. Beneath it all, he's a universal character, ... MOONLIGHT. 5 stars, out of 5.

The remainder of Moonlight — divided into two more chapters, with Chiron as a teenager (Ashton Sanders, pictured) and a young man (Trevante Rhodes) — is about Chiron coming to terms with those ...

The new movie Moonlight is set in Miami in the 1980s, at the height of the war on drugs. It's an authentic, intimate portrait of a young, gay black man whose mother is a crack addict. We first ...

"Moonlight" editor Joi McMillon could ... The story of the main character — known in childhood as “little,” as a teenager as “Chiron” and finally as “Black” in adulthood — proceeds ...

25 UNDER 25 “It’s a revolutionary time for black art and black cinema,” says Ashton Sanders, one of the breakout stars from Moonlight, the 2016 film that won (after a historic mixup) the ...

What Moonlight does, ultimately, to great effect, is re-envision manhood as a space where vulnerability and imagination are acceptable. Moonlight By Robert Jones, Jr. · Updated October 26, 2020 ...

Moonlight‘s most powerful moments—such as when Chiron learns how to swim and float in the water—are both visually striking and symbolically rich.Its performances soar, including that of ...