Nia DaCosta & Ralph Fiennes Build One Damn Fine ‘Bone Temple’ for ’28’ Creator, Alex Garland
Fresh off critical acclaim from her cinematic take on Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler, Hedda, director Nia DaCosta returns to horror with...
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.
Fresh off critical acclaim from her cinematic take on Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler, Hedda, director Nia DaCosta returns to horror with...
When Industry debuted on HBO way back in 2020, I gave it a test drive. My immediate thoughts were clear....
Spike Lee’s fifth collaboration with Denzel Washington, Highest 2 Lowest (a remake of Akira Kurosawa’s High and Low) is a...
One of the many perils of formulating a “best of” list so close to the year in consideration is there’s...
Before Isiah Whitlock Jr. became a cult hero with a one-word tag-line that he made all his own, he toiled...
The year 2025 has been a well-lauded turn around the sun for film, and reasonably so. This last calendar year...
The first half of the television year was so heavy with quality that, as I was selecting my best-of-the-year choices,...
The icon that was Brigitte Bardot often overshadowed her work as a film actor. Starting in 1952 at just 18,...
If you were trying to create a movie I didn’t want to see, The Testament of Ann Lee would, on...
There is no way to address the untimely death of Rob Reiner without saying the worst part: Last night, Reiner...