Domnhall Gleeson on Ned Sampson’s “Good Fight” in Peacock’s ‘The Paper’
As someone who adored both the British and the American versions of The Office, I was somewhat skeptical of whether...
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.
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...
Tall, blonde, blue-eyed, and buxom, Valerie Perrine never intended to be an actor, but she did have her eye on...
The headlines today in the trades that track box office results will all tell you the same thing: The Bride!...
When Kyle Traynor (The White Lotus, House of Cards) was first asked to come aboard HBO’s Industry as an editor...