COLUMN: Moonlight won, but now what, Hollywood?
When it comes to Asian Americans, there is a specific and urgent need to depict them in ways that include them in the fabric of this country.
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COLUMN: Moonlight’s win offers hope in Trump era
At the 89th Academy Awards last Sunday, drama rocked the ceremony’s final minutes: In a move that shocked millions, it was announced that Moonlight had won Best Picture, not La La Land. In a debacle with details still to come, the La La Land producers were mid-speech when headphone-wearing producers rushed the stage. The real […]
Moonlight tackles diversity in media
Asking the Hollywood powers for diverse representation in film is like your mom asking you to clean up your room when you’re a child. You know you should do it, but you don’t. When you finally clean up, it’s only until the last minute, like when your mom is throwing a dinner party and expecting […]
REVIEW: Indie film Moonlight is the most beautiful movie of the year
There is a scene in Moonlight in which a small boy is taught by an older companion to float, and then swim, in the dazzling brim of the Miami shore. Both are black; the boy is Chiron, the youngest version of him the audience will see, and the older man is Juan. Though Juan feeds […]