23 - American Honey & Moonlight

Lee and Dallas are joined by Megan Wilson, writer and podcaster for Screen Queens to breakdown American Honey and the Oscar winning Moonlight. In American Honey, a teenage girl with nothing to lose joins a traveling magazine sales crew, and gets caught up in a whirlwind of hard partying, law bending and young love as she criss-crosses the Midwest with a band of misfits.Moonlight sees a young African-American man grapples with his identity and sexuality while experiencing the everyday struggles of childhood, adolescence, and burgeoning adulthood.In A24 Hour News, we look ahead to Uncut Gems, A24's representation in Indiewire's Top 100 movies of the past decade and preview an upcoming interview with Azazel Jacobs, writer/director of The Lovers. ​You can read Megan's work on Screen Queens website, tune into her podcast here and listen to the The Screen Queens A24 Anniversary Retrospective by clicking on these links.