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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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Defector

The Defector Crewneck Sweatshirt Is Back In Stock

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

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Corey Atad

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Defector At The Movies

‘Saloum’ Is A Genre-Bending Romp That Is As Smart As It Is Thrilling

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Soraya Roberts

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How We Ended Up In The Summer Of New Enthusiasm

Anne Heche at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival.

The IMDb Studio At The 2017 Sundance Film Festival Featuring The Filmmaker Discovery Lounge, Presented By Amazon Video Direct: Day Four – 2017 Park City

Anne Heche For Me Is Anne Heche In ‘Walking And Talking’

Nicholas Russell is a writer from Las Vegas.

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Nicholas Russell

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Hey It's That Guy

Marton Csokas Is Too Quiet To Forget

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In ‘Sharp Stick,’ Jon Bernthal Invents Kissing

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 Point B. Handsomest man in the world.

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Drew Magary

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Inside Hollywood’s Visual Effects Crisis

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‘Ninjababy’ Is The Movie For You If You Don’t Want To Be Pregnant

<a href="https://twitter.com/petesegall?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Pete Segall</a> lives in Chicago. His fiction has appeared in The Bennington Review, Conjunctions, The Drift, and elsewhere.

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The Assassin in Phil Tippett's animated feature Mad God.

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Three Decades In The Making, Phil Tippett’s ‘Mad God’ Is A Movie For This Moment

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Tom Ley

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‘The Gray Man’ Is A $200 Million Homework Assignment

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Ray Wise Has Always Been More Than “That Guy”

Visual Editor. Runs <a href="http://defectorstore.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">defectorstore.com</a>. Philadelphia-based, if you couldn’t tell.

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Dan McQuade

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This Is So Stupid

Do You “Shoot Hoops” Or “Shoot Hoop”?

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Lauren Theisen

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‘Elvis’ Is The King As He Deserves To Be Seen

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‘Cha Cha Real Smooth’ Is The Worst Kind Of Indie Throwback

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‘RRR’ Didn’t Cross Over Just Because It’s Awesome

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‘Men’ Is Bad

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Ray Liotta Saved ‘Field Of Dreams’ From Itself

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Arts And Culture

Bad Special Effects Are A Choice

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Nothing In ‘We’re All Going To The World’s Fair’ Is Scarier Than The Internet As It Really Is

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‘Everything Everywhere All At Once’ Is Where The Chaotic, Splintered Universes Of Modern Life All Collide

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Down With Sympathetic Villains

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What’s So Great About Relatability?

American vaudeville actor Ray Bolger (1904 - 1987) prepares for the opening of WJZ-TV by the American Broadcasting Company at the Palace Theater in New York City, 10th August 1948. (Photo by Graphic House/Archive Photos/Getty Images)

An Audience Of One

Elder Wisdom

The Best Time To Watch A Movie Is First Thing In The Morning

Protesters from Students For a Democratic Society demonstrate on the University of Utah campus against an event where right wing writer and commentator Ben Shapiro is speaking on September 27, 2017 in Salt Lake City, Utah. Campus authorities have increased security ahead of the appearance by Shapiro, a former editor-at-large for Breitbart News. Around 500 people marched across campus, chanting and giving speeches.

University Of Utah Braces For Protests As Right Wing Commentator Ben Shapiro Speaks On Campus