Tag: Barry Jenkins

• If Beale Street Could Talk Review — Family values

  

  It’s hard to know where to begin, every shot in this film aches with such sincerity and affection that by about the twenty minute mark I was already a puddle of tears in an oversized hoody. Sure, I’m a sucker for tragic romance, seeing struggling people pull together to face adversity. The leads of If…

  E Warren

  January 31, 2019

  Film, POC Filmmakers, Review

  Aunjanue Ellis, Barry Jenkins, Brian Tyree Henry, Cinema, Colman Domingo, Dave Franco, Film, Films, Five Stars, If Beale Street Could Talk, James Baldwin, KiKi Layne, Michael Beach, Movie, Movies, Opinion, Regina King, Review, Stephan James, Teyonah Parris

• Moonlight: Watch with Empathy

  

  I mean, I’m really not interested in any take on Moonlight that isn’t coming from a queer black person. It’s a beautiful evocation of a life that comes so far from mine that I feel fully inequipped to deal. Queerness comes pretty easy of my tongue, but that small-town, middle-class, white-British queerness. How can it…

  E Warren

  February 24, 2017

  Film, POC Filmmakers, Queer Filmmakers, Review

  Academy Award, Analysis, André Holland, Ashton Sanders, Barry Jenkins, Cinema, Film, Moonlight, Movie, Oscars, Queer, Review, Trevante Rhodes