'Moonlight': A Retrospective on Barry Jenkins' Masterpiece
Barry Jenkins' masterpiece holds up as the story of a lifetime centered on the intersection of Blackness and gay identity.

Sasha is overwhelmed by problems and melancholy. Inspired by memories of the past, she tries to escape everything, returning from Manchester to Kyiv to visit her mother and try to mend a long-lost relationship. However, things don’t unfold as she had hoped from the moment she steps through the door.
Barry Jenkins' masterpiece holds up as the story of a lifetime centered on the intersection of Blackness and gay identity.
Two Distant Strangers (2020) centers around Carter James (Joey Bada$$) as he tries to get back home to his pitbull, Jeter, after spending a night at the apartment of his date Perri (Zaria Simone). What gets in the way of Carter reuniting with his dog is that every time he tries to leave Perri’s apartment, he is killed by police and wakes up back in her bed in a never-ending cycle. It addresses the issue of police brutality which rightly has been in the public eye more and more with the unjust deaths caused at the hands of law enforcement.
An unlikely friendship changes the hearts of men, and helps a young boy come into his own.
Red, White and Royal Blue still does not have an official release date. However, the cast has been sharing pictures of their filming.
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We can criticize depictions from old media, but they weren’t simply “good for their time”. They were fighting and struggling in a world we can’t imagine.