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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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Nicholas Russell is a writer from Las Vegas.

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Nicholas Russell

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‘Mission: Impossible’ Must Finally Reckon With Tom Cruise’s Ego

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Israel Daramola

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Defector At The Movies

Spike Lee’s Malcolm X Still Lives

Violet Lucca is the author of <a href="https://bookshop.org/p/books/david-cronenberg-clinical-trials-violet-lucca/21170132">David Cronenberg: Clinical Trials</a>. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, Art in America, Sight and Sound, the Village Voice, and elsewhere. She was the VP of Digital at Harper’s Magazine and Digital Producer at Film Comment, and was the host of their respective podcasts.

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Violet Lucca

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‘The Shrouds’ Is David Cronenberg’s Typically Prescient Epitaph For Our Present And His Career

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Soraya Roberts

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‘Friendship’ Can’t Sustain The Relationship

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‘Drop’ Is Not A ’90s Thriller Because The ’90s Are Unfortunately Over

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Michael Townsend descends the stairs from the space where the secret mall apartment used to be.

Artist who was banned for life from Providence Place Mall returns to his secret mall apartment

Watching ‘Secret Mall Apartment’ In The Secret Apartment Mall

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Val Kilmer

Remembering Val Kilmer In Five Movies

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

Gene Hackman and Denzel Washington being held at gun point in the control room in a scene from the film 'Crimson Tide', 1995.

Denzel Washington And Gene Hackman In ‘Crimson Tide’

A Small Gene Hackman Memory for You

Conan O'Brien on stage hosting the Oscars.

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Society Can’t Quit The Oscars

Matene Toure

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‘Nickel Boys’ Deserves Best Picture

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Defector Staff

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Greta Garbo With Rouben Mamoulian on Movie Set

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Lights, Camera, Staff Chat! Let’s Talk Movies.

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‘Black Box Diaries’ Splits A Journalist In Two

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‘A Different Man’ Has Sebastian Stan At His Most Alluring

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Reed Hastings attends the Netflix and Mediaset Partnership Announcement in Rome, in 2019.

Netflix & Mediaset Partnership Announcement

Podcasts

The Movie Studio At The End Of The World, With Will Tavlin

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Two tennis guys get horny looking at Zendaya.

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Is My Most Loathed Enemy A Song From The Score Of ‘Challengers’? Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah-Yeah-Yeah Yeah Yeah-Yeah-Yeah

David Lynch Was The Artist of Our Time

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‘Nosferatu’ Keeps You Waiting And Waiting

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Clockwise from top: James Stewart, Donna Reed, Carol Coombs, Jimmy Hawkins, Larry Simms and Karolyn Grimes.

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How Can A Life Be Wonderful?

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Rachelle Hampton

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Justin Ellis

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Defector Watches A Christmas Movie: ‘The Merry Gentlemen’

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‘Babygirl’ Wants To Know Your Fantasy

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Maitreyi Anantharaman

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Barry Petchesky

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Defector Watches A Christmas Movie: ‘The Christmas Quest’

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The Ending Of ‘Conclave’ Was Cheap And Stupid

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Alan Kluegel

Denzel Washington looking incredibly sinister and cool in Gladiator II.

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II Decadent II Decrepit: The Politics Of ‘Gladiator II’

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Defector Watches A Christmas Movie: ‘Our Little Secret’

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‘The Village’ Still Has Questions To Ask