4+ day, 15+ hour ago   (99+ words) Courtesy of Apple TV We close our podcast, as always, with the Flash Forward to the media we’re most anticipating in the upcoming week. Clarence Moye is a proud co-founder of The Contending where he writes about film, television, and…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (107+ words) LA BOLA NEGRA. Guitarricadelafuente as Sebastián in La Bola Negra. Cr. Carla Oset/Netflix © 2026. Ohhhh, Netflix isn’t playing around! Joey is a co-founder of The Contending currently living in Columbus, OH. He is a proud member of GALECA and Critics…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (384+ words) Joey is a co-founder of The Contending currently living in Columbus, OH. He is a proud member of GALECA and Critics Choice. Since he is short himself, Joey has a natural draw towards short film filmmaking. He is a Rotten…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (245+ words) Courtesy of Apple TV Do you remember the first marketing you saw from Widow’s Bay? It might have been that teaser, later featured in the second episode, where the man asks visitors to come with him in a long take....

1+ mon, 4+ week ago   (330+ words) Sam Neill in 'The Piano.' Image courtesy of Miramax. 1981 would prove to be a significant one for Neill. Cast as Damian in The Final Conflict (the third film in The Omen trilogy), Neill was chilling as the adult fulfillment of…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago   (566+ words) Courtesy of Apple TV Six years ago when Ted Lasso premiered, it was the little show that could. With so many people stuck at home, the eventual 2021 and 2022 Outstanding Comedy Series winner got us through COVID, putting Apple TV on…...

3+ mon, 16+ hour ago   (168+ words) Martin represents the kind of loneliness that other men of Silicon Valley might be too afraid to approach. When was the last time that they locked themselves up in a room with their ideas? Helberg is the kind of actor…...

3+ mon, 2+ day ago   (284+ words) Jessica Harper was excited—and appropriately located—when she got the call to play Ethel Kennedy on FX on Hulu’s Love Story. “I was in Cape Cod as it happened,” said Harper. “Literally a stone’s throw from, you know, Hyannis…...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago   (195+ words) Justine Lupe as Morgan Nobody Wants This. Cr. Erin Simkin/Netflix © 2025 For the rest of the season, Morgan has quite an interesting arc where she must lose herself, in a way, to come to certain necessary realizations. Lupe is a…...

3+ mon, 3+ week ago   (271+ words) Michael Chernus as John Wayne Gacy in 'Devil in Disguise: John Wayne Gacy.' Image courtesy of Peacock. The Contending: The victim-centered nature of the show starts from the beginning, with Rob Piest, the last boy who was murdered, and then…...