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Oh Lordy (as my Kentucky grandmother used to say), how many times have we been here before? Since the one-two...
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.
Oh Lordy (as my Kentucky grandmother used to say), how many times have we been here before? Since the one-two...
Never in my life did I expect to willingly watch a dating show, let alone write about one. The blame...
Over his twenty-plus-year film and TV scoring career, composer Dominic Lewis has worked in nearly every possible genre: comedy, action,...
Ed Sullivan was an unlikely TV personality. Sullivan was a journalist by trade—a man of the written, not the spoken,...
I’ve been struggling with my thoughts on the television legacy of Ozzy Osbourne since the news of his death one...
I first learned of We Shall Not Be Moved (No Nos Moveran in Spanish) over ten months ago when I...
History has shown that for child acting stars, transitioning to adulthood in both their professional and personal life can be...
The Emmy award in the category of Best Supporting Actor - Comedy may well be Ike Barinholtz’s to lose. Apple’s...
It was precisely 50 summers ago that Steven Spielberg’s second theatrical film emptied the oceans of human beings after filling...
Sometimes your signature accomplishment can override a lifetime of great work. Such is the case with composer Lalo Schifrin—most associate...