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Frank J. Avella is a proud staff writer for The Contending and an Edge Media Network contributor. He serves as the GALECA Industry Liaison (Home of the Dorian Awards) and is a Member of the New York Film Critics Online. As screenwriter/director, his award-winning short film, FIG JAM, has shown in Festivals worldwide and won numerous awards. Recently produced stage plays include LURED & VATICAN FALLS, both O'Neill semifinalists. His latest play FROCI, is about the queer Italian-American experience. Frank is a proud member of the Dramatists Guild.
There are many people in this world who are angry, bitter and resentful. We often tend to dismiss these humans...
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Seven leaders of the world’s most prominent democracies (and are they all really democracies?) have gathered in Germany for the...
Based on the 2019 Pulitzer-Prize-winning novel by Colson Whitehead which chronicled the horrific acts perpetrated at the Dozier reform school...
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For the plethora of journos and critics who worship at the Luca Guadagnino deeply indulgent cinema shrine, there is great...
When I arrived at our B&B after the 3 ½ hours-plus press screening of Brady Corbet’s enormously ambitious film The...
Midway through Pedro Almodóvar’s first English-language film The Room Next Door, I was struck by what I felt was a...