As I was prepping for this tribute to Dame Maggie Smith, it occurred to me that from her breakthrough Oscar-nominated...

It may be hard to remember now, since, you know, Paltrow becoming a mogul of odd QVC level products—one of...

The Penguin, The Batman-related spin-off MAX introduced on September 19th as a  Limited series, picks up where The Batman left...

At the beginning of director Alonso Ruizpalacios’ La Cocina, I thought the film was in trouble. The opening credits sequence...

Tom Hardy is among the best and most unique actors of his era. As a younger man, he presented as...

Yesterday, MGM dropped the trailer for the biopic The Fire Inside, a film that tells the story of Claressa Shields...

Throughout the fabled auteur era of ‘70s cinema, no other director found weaker critical assessment and Academy acceptance than he...

The morning of September 11, 2001, I was at work. My day began at 6:30 AM. A couple of hours...

It’s quite possible that most of us unconsciously know James Earl Jones as a voice. An authoritative voice. Whether that...

On Saturday, Richard Gere turned 75. Once a week, here at the Contending we will celebrate the birthdays of filmmakers,...