The last time Barry Jenkins had a movie playing in Toronto, the whole festival seemed to fall collectively under its spell—drawn as deeply to its hypnotic shades of blue as its main character, the agonizingly withdrawn Chiron, was drawn to the crashing waves of Miami. It was love at first sight for many of us (this…

The Grand Best-Picture Fuck-Up Of 2017 was a lot of fun to watch, with the forces of good (Moonlight) triumphing over the forces of kinda-good (La La Land), but it had the net effect of robbing Barry Jenkins of his much-deserved moment in the spotlight. The iconic photo of the moment is of La La Land’s producer, after…

For a lot of us, the Best Picture fuck-up at last year’s Oscars was a momentary and amusing blip, or even an eventual moment of relief: We were free from the tyranny of La La Land, and Barry Jenkins’ Moonlight had actually won. It was less reassuring for Jenkins himself, as it turns out, who says the cloud of…

A lot of us traveled over the holidays, but Moonlight director Barry Jenkins had been on the road for several months even before that. On January 3, he was finally headed home after an extremely long jaunt, finding distraction on Twitter:

Barry Jenkins’ Moonlight was one of The A.V. Club’s favorite movies of 2016, painting a rich coming-of-age portrait of a young black kid from Miami coming to terms with his identity. It also set the record for lowest-budgeted Best Picture winner in Academy Awards history. Helping to bring Barry Jenkins and Tarell…

Oscar winner Barry Jenkins has announced his first picture post-Moonlight, with Variety reporting that Jenkins will be directing an adaptation of James Baldwin’s If Beale Street Could Talk. The 1974 novel focuses on a woman and her family working to clear her fiancee’s name, after he’s framed for rape by a bigoted…

Hollywood is soulless. Everyone knows that. A24, a relatively new entertainment company, isn’t, though. That’s not just because it’s based in New York, but because it seems to genuinely care about the movies it’s putting out. Even if you don’t know the name, you’ve likely seen one of the movies the independent studio…

Amazon Prime subscribers who also use Hulu may feel a twinge of déjà vu when perusing the list of new titles coming to the online retailer’s streaming service in May, because there’s a fair amount of crossover this time. On the other hand, Prime subscribers who don’t use Hulu can breathe a sigh relief, because that…

The MTV Movie Awards already made a big change this year by becoming the MTV Movie & TV Awards. But apparently that was just the start of the evolution. Today’s announcement of nominees reveals that the show has also become more progressive. For one, there are no gender designations in the acting races any longer, and…

Newly-minted Oscar winner Barry Jenkins has found his next project: The Moonlight director is heading to the small screen to adapt Colson Whitehead’s bestselling novel, The Underground Railroad. Amazon announced the one-hour drama via press release today, which will see Jenkins reteam with Moonlight producers Pastel…

2016 was a better-than-average year for African-Americans in movies, with films like Hidden Figures, Fences, I Am Not Your Negro, and Ava DuVernay’s The 13th all taking their place in the public consciousness, while Barry Jenkins’ Moonlight (eventually) won Best Picture at the Academy Awards. That increased…

Blood, guts, cursing, the R rating that allowed those things, a mournful tone, a non-franchise name, a lack of superhero cameos, and even wild horses couldn’t drag people away from Logan. The third and reportedly final entry in Fox’s solo Wolverine series overcame the aforementioned impediments to blockbuster-dom to…

The first weekend Moonlight was released back in October, it only played on four screens. Of course, now that it’s the Academy Award winner for Best Picture—the first LGBTQ film ever to achieve that honor—it is hitting a lot more. The movie is expanding to 1,500 theaters this weekend, A24 told The A.V. Club, for its…

Regardless of whatever the hell went down last night at the Oscars, the cast of Moonlight will always have one thing that La La Land can’t spoil for them: They look great in their underwear. And we’re not just saying that. No less of an authority on the subject than Calvin Klein agrees, recruiting the film’s main male…

One of the highlights of last night’s Academy Awards ceremony (aside from, well, that) was seeing actor Mahershala Ali win a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his turn in Moonlight. It was a nuanced, soulful performance that stands out even on Ali’s considerable résumé, which includes supporting turns in House Of Cards, …

If you watched the Oscars unfold on Twitter, you saw the twin joys of Gary from Chicago and Moonlight’s win reverberate around the internet. We received an email (courtesy of someone at health2blog.com, of all places) that used geotagged data on Twitter to map those moments as they happened, and they provide a weirdly…

Rarely do you get a public moment that elicits the amount of shock, confusion, and joy as the one that occurred last night when it turned out that Moonlight and not La La Land had won the Oscar for Best Picture. But the telecast could not show the complete range of perplexed celebrities. Luckily, other cameras were…

A fuck-up like last night’s Best Picture switcheroo is not the type of thing that happens too often—or ever, really—an unprecedented disaster on the biggest moment of the biggest night of one of the world’s biggest industries. The fact that a billion-mile outside shot like Moonlight could not only usurp hegemonic…

We still don’t have a total understanding of what the hell happened when Faye Dunaway read out “La La Land” instead of the actual Best Picture winner, Moonlight during last night’s Oscars. However, some clues are starting to emerge. For one, PricewaterhouseCoopers, the accounting firm that’s tabulated the results for…