SOMETHING’S ROTTEN IN SoCal: STAR 80, BABYLON AND THE DEATH OF HOLLYWOOD MYTHS
When director Damien Chazelle’s long-anticipated BABYLON, about the transition period in Hollywood between silents and talkies, was...
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Phillips875
- Feb 20
- 9 min
MY FRIEND JENNIFER
When I got the news that my friend Jennifer was dying of cancer, I was pissed. Not pissed that life had dealt her this hand, but pissed...
Phillips875
- Feb 12
- 5 min
TITANIC AT 25
Yesterday I paid for a ticket to see director James Cameron’s TITANIC in a theater for the 10th time. My cinematic-viewing record-holder...
Phillips875
- Dec 23, 2022
- 9 min
ALL THE EVERYTHING ALL AT ONCE: MY 2022 IN MOVIES
Anyone who would claim that cinema is dead in 2022 was either paying way too much attention to the trades’ Monday-morning theatrical...
Phillips875
- Nov 25, 2022
- 8 min
FLIP THE F***ING TABLE
Last week, I had a few hours to kill, so I settled in on my couch for MY POLICEMAN, the new Harry Styles-led, period gay love story that...
Phillips875
- Nov 18, 2022
- 12 min
SOMETIMES YOU TALK ABOUT PRIDE
1. There’s a wordless moment in the original, British QUEER AS FOLK that always comes to mind when you think of that show. You saw it...
Phillips875
- Nov 10, 2022
- 7 min
HOT & BOTHERED
After a few seasons off, I recently decided to dive back into the anthology series AMERICAN HORROR STORY. I heard the new one, subtitled...
Phillips875
- Nov 3, 2022
- 7 min
AUDITION
On November 18th, Universal Pictures will release SHE SAID, the film adaptation of Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey’s ALL THE PRESIDENT’S...
Phillips875
- Oct 26, 2022
- 13 min
RYAN MURPHY: AN APPRECIATION
Recently, there was a supremely silly mini-controversy that could occur only within our social media outrage-fueled era of supremely...
Phillips875
- Oct 21, 2022
- 13 min
#USTOO
On its opening weekend, my husband and I braved The Grove here in Los Angeles – I avoid this claustrophobic clusterfuck of an outdoor...
Chris Phillips
- Oct 14, 2022
- 11 min
ON BROS, OCTOBER 2022
In my decade-plus pursuing a career as a screenwriter, I’ve gotten the opportunity to pitch my scripts to many different producers, and I...
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