Tony Mucci & Tyler “Hook” Senerchia On the Journey of a One Hundred Dollar Bill for ‘Money Talk$’
When you see a one hundred dollar bill, something in your chest catches. For a lot of us, that's still...
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Tina Romero & Natalie Metzger On Glamifying Zombies and Assembling a Superhero-Level Queer Cast for ‘Queens of the Dead’
Tina Romero's Queens of the Dead is a sparkly, queer extravaganza with enough camp and scares to already be heralded...
Reframe: ‘Jaws’
It was precisely 50 summers ago that Steven Spielberg’s second theatrical film emptied the oceans of human beings after filling...
[VIDEO] Geena Davis Talks Bentonville Film Festival Standards, Working With First-Time Female Directors Like Zoë Kravitz
Geena Davis sat down with The Contending to chat about selecting films for the Bentonville Film Festival and working on...
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Shadowhunters Star Matthew Daddario Leans Into His Italian Roots In The Comedy ‘The Italians’ [VIDEO]
In Michelle Danner’s comedy, The Italians, Matthew Daddario plays Nico Vitale, the beloved son of headstrong matriarch Angelina (Danner) and...
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‘Beautiful Evening, Beautiful Day’ Director Ivona Juka On Hateful, Homophobic Reactions To Daring Oscar Entry, Winning the Frameline Audience Award [VIDEO]
Ivona’ Juka’s second narrative feature, Beautiful Evening, Beautiful Day is set amidst the turbulent backdrop of 1950’s communist Yugoslavia when...
The Sound of Schifrin
Sometimes your signature accomplishment can override a lifetime of great work. Such is the case with composer Lalo Schifrin—most associate...
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Michael Madsen amassed more than three hundred and twenty film and TV roles from his 1982 debut in St. Elsewhere...
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Oscar Legends: Carol Kane Looks Back On Her Career, Latest Challenging Role
In the final reel of Joan Micklin Silver’s 1975 feature film debut Hester Street, Gitl, a Russian-Jewish immigrant who has...
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