Catherine O’Hara: Queen of Comedy, National Treasure
There are things you realize when you sit down to write an obituary for a talented person who has died....
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.
There are things you realize when you sit down to write an obituary for a talented person who has died....
When Boogie Nights hit theaters with no small amount of pre-release fanfare, Paul Thomas Anderson was a relative neophyte director...
Director Joe Carnahan has two truly great films on his resume: Narc from 2002, starring Ray Liotta and Jason Patric...
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,...