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Phillips875
Dec 30, 202315 min read
BLOOD ON THE FLOOR: MY 2023 YEAR AS ARTIST AND AUDIENCE
As I’ve learned over 16+ years in recovery, I only have the ability to change anything when I accept a person, institution or situation...
Phillips875
Nov 27, 20237 min read
UNREAL PEOPLE: HOMOPHOBIA IN BRADLEY COOPER'S MAESTRO
In his classic, exhaustive study on LGBTQ images in Hollywood movies, THE CELLULOID CLOSET, writer and activist Vito Russo offers up a...
Phillips875
Jun 6, 202310 min read
INSTAGAYS, GBF’S, AND GLOBBIES: THE UPWARDLY MOBILE DOWNWARD SPIRAL OF CARY DUBEK
I’m one of those people who gave up on SUCCESSION early. After making it through the entire first season – the last episode of which I do...
Phillips875
Apr 13, 20238 min read
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...
Phillips875
Feb 20, 20239 min read
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, 20235 min read
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, 20229 min read
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, 20228 min read
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, 202212 min read
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, 20227 min read
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, 20227 min read
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, 202213 min read
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, 202213 min read
#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, 202211 min read
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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