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This is Defector, a new sports blog and media company. We made this place together, we own it together, we run it together. Without access, without favor, without discretion, and without interference.

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The Defector Crewneck Sweatshirt Is Back In Stock

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Israel Daramola

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Arts And Culture

Does It Matter If Adam Driver Is A Bad Actor?

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Andre Braugher in a black and white portrait taken in 2015.

Celebrities Visit SiriusXM Studios – April 30, 2015

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<p>Columnist. Author of many <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Drew-Magary/e/B001JS8R52/ref=dp_byline_cont_pop_book_1">fine works of literature</a>, including <em>Point B</em>. Handsomest man in the world.</p>


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Drew Magary

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Six Things You Are Not Allowed To Say To Me About ‘Godzilla Minus One’

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Defector At The Movies

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<div>Adam Charles Hart is an author, curator, and archivist who lives in Pittsburgh. His second book, &#8216;<i>Raising the Dead: The Work of George A. Romero, </i>will be out in early 2024 from Oxford University Press.</div>
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TOPSHOT - US director Martin Scorsese poses as he arrives on May 8, 2018 for the screening of the film "Todos Lo Saben (Everybody Knows)" and the opening ceremony of the 71st edition of the Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, southern France. (Photo by Antonin THUILLIER / AFP) (Photo by ANTONIN THUILLIER/AFP via Getty Images)

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Martin Scorsese’s Second Life As An Adman

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‘Killers Of The Flower Moon’ Asks You To Sit With Its Contradictions

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‘Killers Of The Flower Moon’ Is The Latest Entry In Martin Scorsese’s History Of Evil


<p>Corey Atad is a freelancer writer based in Toronto with an unhealthy Air Bud obsession.</p>


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The Survival Of Independent Cinema Begins With The Belief Of Those Who Make It

<p>Nicholas Russell is a writer from Las Vegas.</p>


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Cosplayer Devan Blake dressed as Valak from "The Conjuring" attends the 2019 Comic-Con International on July 18, 2019 in San Diego, California.

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They’ll Just Keep Conjuring That Garbage

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All This Bleeding

NYFF programmer Rachel Rosen moderates a press conference with director Todd Haynes, writer/executive producer Samy Burch, producers Christine Vachon, Pamela Koffler, Jessica Elbaum and for "May December" during the 61st New York Film Festival at Walter Reade Theater on September 29, 2023 in New York City.

61st New York Film Festival – “May December” Press Conference

Four Days At The Flooded New York Film Festival

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Joanna Arnow’s Time Has Arrived

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Lois Smith Is Too Cool To Be Hollywood’s Grandma

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This Is So Stupid

Apologies To The Makers Of The ‘Pet Sematary’ Prequel, But I Would Call This Dog “My Little Sweetie Baby” And Rub Its Belly

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Dream Works Presents “Collateral” Q & A With Michael Mann

The Boys Are Back In Movie Town

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‘Bottoms’ Turns High School Into A Violent, Absurdist Playground

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Have You Seen Skyler Gisondo?

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20 Years Later, ‘Oldboy’ Still Lives Up To The Hype

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Can Benny Safdie Just Make Himself Into A Character Actor?

William Friedkin attends the La Lecon De Cinema photocall during the 69th annual Cannes Film Festival at the Palais des Festivals on May 18, 2016 in Cannes, France.

La Lecon De Cinema: William Friedkin – Photocall –  The 69th Annual Cannes Film Festival

In An Era Of Gnarly Filmmakers, William Friedkin Aimed To Be The Gnarliest

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Ray Ratto

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Barbenheimer: The Ratto Review

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‘Barbie’ Was Born Out Of The Anxiety Of Modern Filmmaking

Hayley Atwell and Tom Cruise in Mission: Impossible Dead Reckoning Part One from Paramount Pictures and Skydance.