Alfonso Cuaron’s Magnificent Melodrama ‘Disclaimer’ Starring Cate Blanchett
Alfonso Cuaron is one of the best filmmakers working today, but I’ll be damned if I can make sense of...
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.
Alfonso Cuaron is one of the best filmmakers working today, but I’ll be damned if I can make sense of...
The great Sigourney Weaver turns 75 this week. I feel a need to add the word “great” before her name...
John Ashton was a classic working actor who took some jobs to keep the lights on but, when given a...
When Ryan Murphy’s Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story dropped in 2022, I was as skeptical as anyone about whether the...
The Virginia Film Festival (VAFF) has announced its slate of films for this, its 37th year. Held in Charlottesville, VA,...
One of the great Pariesenne actors of the modern age, Marion Cotillard crossed over to this side of the Atlantic...
I spent most of my early youth in a mixed-race small town where black and white didn’t, well, mix. Sure,...
In Robert Kolodny's remarkable faux documentary, The Featherweight, covering former lightweight boxing champion Willie Pep on his way to a...
Before I get to Kris Kristofferson as an actor, I feel compelled to talk about what an extraordinary songwriter he...
Let’s first clear up the intentional grammatical error in the film’s title. George Clooney and Brad Pitt play two “cleaners”...