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Ashton Sanders & Jharrel Jerome Win Best Kiss For Moonlight At The MTV Movie Awards

May 8, 2017 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

Moonlight hasn’t doesn’t winning awards yet, as last night at the MTV Movie Awards, it picked up Best Kiss for the smooch between Ashton Sanders and Jharrel Jerome as the teenage versions of Chiron and Kevin. Of course the scene in question on the beach involved a bit more than just a kiss, but it was for the lip locking that they got their gong.

The two actors also had a powerful message, with Jerome saying, “On a real note, I think it is safe to say that it is OK for us young performers, especially us minority performers, to step out of the box. It’s OK for us to step out of the box and do whatever it takes to tell the story and whatever it takes to make the change. This award is for that. It’s for us artists who are out there, who need to do whatever it takes to get people to wake up.”

Sanders added, “This award is bigger than Jharrel and I. This represents more than a kiss. This is for those who feel like the others, the misfits – this represents us.”

You can take a look at their speech below. [Read more…]

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ACTORS: Ashton Sanders, Jharrel Jerome FILMS: Moonlight

Crush Of The Day: The Cast Of Moonlight Strips To Their Calvins

February 27, 2017 By Tim Isaac 1 Comment

Moonlight may have just picked up three Oscars – including it’s shock Best Picture winner, literally taking it from the hands of Moonlight – but it appears the cast aren’t solely interested in awards. No, they’re keen to let people know what they look like in their underwear.

And we have to say, they look very, very good.

It seems there might have been a bit of a quid pro quo here, as Calvin Klein dressed a lot of the Moonlight cast and crew at the Academy Awards, and now the first images from a new Klein campaign featuring Mahershala Ali and three men who played Chiron – Alex Hibbert, Ashton Sanders and Trevante Rhodes – have arrived.

They may all be very good actors, but Ali and Rhodes in particular show they look extremely good with their shirts off. And quite frankly Trevante lounging around in briefs is an image that should be up for awards all on its own.

Take a look at some of the pics below: [Read more…]

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ACTORS: Alex Hibbert, Ashton Sanders, Mahershala Ali, Trevante Rhodes FILMS: Moonlight

Moonlight (Cinema Review) – The gay-themed multi-Oscar nominee finally reaches the UK

February 16, 2017 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

Starring: Alex R. Hibbert, Ashton Sanders, Mahershala Ali, Naomie Harris, Trevante Rhodes
Director: Barry Jenkins
Running Time: 111 mins
Certificate: 15
Release Date: February 17th 2017 (UK)

Oftentimes it’s not too far into the year when you can see which movies are likely to be lining up for the Oscar race. However, Moonlight seemingly came out of nowhere, became far more successful at the US box office than most expected (setting records along the way) and immediately had people suggesting it ought to be up for loads of awards. Even so, many wondered whether it would miss out, simply because it was a small film released by a US distributor that doesn’t have the money for the sort of massive Oscar campaign a studio can mount.

Thankfully it defied the odds, scoring eight Oscar nominations. It’s taken a while, but now the movie is arriving in the UK, and it’s been worth the wait. [Read more…]