Trailer Alert! ‘The Fire Inside,’ The Groundbreaking Story of Olympic Champion Boxer Claressa Shields
Yesterday, MGM dropped the trailer for the biopic The Fire Inside, a film that tells the story of Claressa Shields...
Birthday Bash: Brian DePalma’s Top 7
Throughout the fabled auteur era of ‘70s cinema, no other director found weaker critical assessment and Academy acceptance than he...
Reframe: United 93
The morning of September 11, 2001, I was at work. My day began at 6:30 AM. A couple of hours...
The Voice of James Earl Jones
It’s quite possible that most of us unconsciously know James Earl Jones as a voice. An authoritative voice. Whether that...
Top 7 Birthday Bash: Richard Gere
On Saturday, Richard Gere turned 75. Once a week, here at the Contending we will celebrate the birthdays of filmmakers,...
Joker: Folie (or Folly?) à Deux
We are just two days from the Venice premiere of Director Todd Phillips’ sequel to his stunningly successful Joker from...
Birthday Bash: David Fincher’s Top 7
Today David Fincher turns 62. Once a week, here at the Contending we will celebrate the birthdays of filmmakers, and...
See Kate Winslet as Lee Miller, the Famous WWII Photojournalist in the Trailer for ‘Lee’
In recent years, Kate Winslet has found more critical success on television than in film. Her new movie Lee, about...
‘The Featherweight’ Hits as Hard as Heroin
Is it a mockumentary if it isn’t mocking anything? This is the question I started to ask myself while trying...
The MCU’s Last Moment of Greatness
No matter how one may feel about superhero movies based on comics made for children, there can be no dismissal...
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