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David E Phillips
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Entertainment & boxing writer. Irish as fuck. My scribbling can be found at thecontending.com & fightsatw.com. Member of GALECA & IFJA.
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“Retiring.”

Sure, motherfucker.

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Greg Bovino Is Retiring: The Atlantic
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January 27, 2026 at 2:22 AM
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Kind of hard to write about movies right now, but I guess it’s the thing I do. Here’s my look back at the film that put Paul Thomas Anderson on the map. I still think it’s his best.

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Reframe: Paul Thomas Anderson’s ‘Boogie Nights’
When Boogie Nights hit theaters with no small amount of pre-release fanfare, Paul Thomas Anderson was a relative neophyte director
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January 26, 2026 at 1:30 PM
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Alex Pretti’s last known words were to the woman who had been felled by an ICE Agent. “Are you okay?” he asked her. That is heartbreaking.
January 25, 2026 at 5:00 PM
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Delroy Lindo received his first Oscar nomination this morning. Yes, you read that right. Lindo had never been nominated before today. I’m not saying me interviewing him tipped the scales, but maybe it didn’t hurt.

#delroylindo #sinners #oscars

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Oscar Contender Delroy Lindo on ‘Sinners’ Genesis, Development, That Devastating Car Ride
If there is a list floating around of the best working actors to have never been nominated for an Oscar,
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January 22, 2026 at 3:06 PM
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A show that practically dares you to watch, and keep up, with it.

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The Abyss of ‘Industry’
When Industry debuted on HBO way back in 2020, I gave it a test drive. My immediate thoughts were clear.
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January 14, 2026 at 9:00 PM
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It’s not every day that you go from being discovered by Spike Lee on Instagram to writing and recording the theme song for his film of the same name, and then being cast in the movie and performing that song live in front of some guy named Denzel Washington.

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Songwriting Duo Aiyana-Lee, Nicole Anderson Go From Lowest 2 Highest in Spike Lee’s ‘Highest 2 Lowest’
Spike Lee’s fifth collaboration with Denzel Washington, Highest 2 Lowest (a remake of Akira Kurosawa’s High and Low) is a
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January 12, 2026 at 5:42 PM
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Watching the great Delroy Lindo speak at the Critics Choice Awards for Sinners. I chatted with that cat!

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Oscar Contender Delroy Lindo on ‘Sinners’ Genesis, Development, That Devastating Car Ride
If there is a list floating around of the best working actors to have never been nominated for an Oscar,
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January 5, 2026 at 1:16 AM
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When that cat you interviewed wins a Critics Choice Award.

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Miles Caton on His Extraordinary Film Debut in ‘Sinners’ & What’s Next After Achieving Instant on Screen
You’d be hard-pressed to recall a more auspicious film debut than that of Miles Caton in Ryan Coogler’s critically acclaimed
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January 5, 2026 at 12:49 AM
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The Netflix documentary Cover-Up on Seymour “Sy” Hersh is one of the best films of the year.
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Netflix’s ‘Cover-Up’: A Story of a Journalist Who Could Not Look Away
One of the many perils of formulating a “best of” list so close to the year in consideration is there’s
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January 4, 2026 at 12:17 AM
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No Sheeeeeeeee-it.

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Isiah Whitlock Jr. Was Much More Than a Catchphrase
Before Isiah Whitlock Jr. became a cult hero with a one-word tag-line that he made all his own, he toiled
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January 2, 2026 at 3:54 PM
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Read My List.

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David Phillips’ Best in Film 2025
The year 2025 has been a well-lauded turn around the sun for film, and reasonably so. This last calendar year
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January 1, 2026 at 12:31 AM
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This is not going to look good on a Nobel Peace Prize application.

#trump #venezuela #cia #nobelpeaceprize

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CIA Conducted Drone Strike On Facility In Venezuela: CNN
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December 30, 2025 at 6:14 AM
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An actual advert from 1963 for the Godard/Bardot film Contempt.

Men.
December 29, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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Apple TV should release The Savant. The significance of the show is both art and democracy based.

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Release ‘The Savant’
Unlike the general public, I have seen The Savant.  It is, unsurprisingly, a high-class production. All of Apple TV’s original series have a quality sheen and sizable budgets, and the creative…
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December 29, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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Read about Bardot.

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How to Solve a Puzzle Like Brigitte Bardot
The icon that was Brigitte Bardot often overshadowed her work as a film actor. Starting in 1952 at just 18,
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December 29, 2025 at 1:20 AM
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In < a year, @CBS has paid @POTUS $16M in extortion, canceled @colbertlateshow; hired @bariweiss who held a flop interview w/ @MrsErikakirk1, ruined @60Minutes, & last night platformed the lowest rated @KCHonors in history.

“Errors were made.”—Rumsfeld

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Report: Last Night's Kennedy Center Honors Ratings May Be Lowest Ever, Half as Much as Last Year with Around 3 Million Viewers - Showbiz411
Last night’s terrible Kennedy Center Honors was a ratings disaster. So speculates TV expert reporter Joe Adalian. Writing on his popular TVMoJoe X account, Adalian says: “Last year, the KENNEDY CENTER...
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December 24, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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A 30th anniversary ode to the greatest cops-n-robbers movie ever made.

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HEAT
It’s easy to forget that Michael Mann’s classic crime film HEAT was only a relatively modest success thirty years ago. The thriller made a sturdy $67 million at the box office after its December 19…
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December 23, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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Can any movie beat One Battle After Another for Best Picture? I’m not sure, but I know where I’d place my bets for an upset.

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Oscars 2026: Is ‘Sinners’ the Oscar Sleeper Hiding in Plain Sight?
At this moment, the race for Best Picture would appear to be One Battle After Another’s to lose. Paul Thomas
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December 12, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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Cut back on pencils and dolls, he sez. But everything is fine. Nothing to see here.

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‘You can give up certain products’: Trump tells Americans to settle for less
The president expects Americans to make sacrifices but doesn’t appear willing to make any sacrifices of his own.
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December 10, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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My interview with the great Casting Director of A House of Dynamite.

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‘A House of Dynamite’ Casting Director Susanne Scheel on Casting Kathryn Bigelow’s Nuclear Drama Like a Docume
Kathryn Bigelow’s unnerving nuclear disaster film A House of Dynamite is a true ensemble. There are primary characters, but no
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December 10, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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I miss the Tarantino who made Jackie Brown.

#tarantino #jackiebrown #quentintarantino #robertdeniro #samuelljackson #christucker #robertforster #pamgrier

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Jackie Brown
Of all the films Quentin Tarantino has made, Jackie Brown is probably the least Tarantino of them all. But that doesn’t mean the movie doesn’t have his fingerprints on it. The story of the ti…
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December 7, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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For quietly great #RobertBenton, who let his remarkable work speak for itself.

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The Quiet Legend of Robert Benton
When I heard of the passing of Robert Benton by way of my editor today, the first thought that came
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May 14, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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#Havoc is one wound-up and ready to roar action film, but does it bring the characters home?

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#tomhardy #forestwhitaker #yeoyannyann #timothyolyphant #netflix #garethdavis

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Netflix’s ‘Havoc’ Lives Up To Its Name (But Is That Enough?)
Writer/Director Gareth Evans’ Havoc had a tortured trip from the start of filming way back in July of 2021. Evans,
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April 26, 2025 at 4:10 AM
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#TheLastOfUs took a huge chance last night. Will it pay off?

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#hbo #max #pedropascal #thelastofus

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Can MAX’s ‘The Last of Us’ Survive Its Own Code?
WARNING: Spoilers ahead for those who have not watched episode 2 One of the greatest strengths of HBO’s “zombie” series
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April 21, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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#RyanCoogler’s #Sinners is much more than a #vampire movie.

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#michaelbjordan #ryancoogler

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No Irish, No Blacks, No Vampires: Ryan Coogler’s ‘Sinners’ Upends Horror Genre
Ryan Coogler has directed five films, and Michael B. Jordan has been in all of them. Between Black Panther One
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April 19, 2025 at 3:15 AM