At the Halfway Point, ‘Half Man’ is the One to Beat
In 2024, Richard Gadd came seemingly from out of nowhere to deliver one of the most well-received (and disturbing) limited...
David Phillips has been a Senior Writer for The Contending from its inception on 8/26/2024. He is a writer for film and TV and creator of the Reframe series, devoted to looking at films from the past through a modern lens. Before coming to The Contending, David wrote for Awards Daily in the same capacity from August 2018 to August 2024. He has covered the Oscars in person (2024), as well as the Virginia Film Festival, and served as a juror for both the short and the full-length narrative film categories for the Heartland Film Festival(2024) He is a proud member of GALECA and the IFJA.
In 2024, Richard Gadd came seemingly from out of nowhere to deliver one of the most well-received (and disturbing) limited...
In playing a sci-fi novelist who suddenly finds herself in a world where every human being, save a select few,...
When I meet with an actor to talk about their work playing a real-life person who did horrible things, there’s...
As someone who adored both the British and the American versions of The Office, I was somewhat skeptical of whether...
While Maggie Phillips, the Emmy-nominated Music Supervisor for Fargo, had worked with that show’s creator, Noah Hawley, multiple times before...
35 years ago, Jonathan Demme’s serial killer thriller, The Silence of the Lambs, turned the film industry on its head....
If ever a film arrived in theaters bulletproof of critical harangue, it is director Antoine Fuqua’s biopic on Michael Jackson,...
Unlike its multi-award-winning first season, this year’s model of The Pitt didn’t build up to an exterior crisis that nearly...
When the first season of Apple TV’s Drops of God came to a close, I thought, “Perfect. Stop right there....
David Cronenberg’s 1983 film, based on the Stephen King novel, is something of an anomaly for Cronenberg and his leading...