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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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Owen Lewis is a former Defector intern and co-founded the website <a href="http://popcorntennis.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://popcorntennis.com&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1726234676777000&amp;usg=AOvVaw0PFWw6PL-FUqaCMME5TLqP">popcorntennis.com</a>. He wrote 63,000 words about the Novak Djokovic-Rafael Nadal rivalry that can be accessed for free at <a href="https://thegoldenrivalry.substack.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://thegoldenrivalry.substack.com&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1726234676777000&amp;usg=AOvVaw2OjAHpo4PVIhkx8Xd21lRJ">thegoldenrivalry.substack.com</a>.

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Owen Lewis

Josh O'Connor feeds a churro to Mike Faist in a scene from Challengers

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Who Wins The Match In ‘Challengers’?

A Rockies fan by birth and a White Sox fan by geographic proximity, Annie Howard spends her non-suffering sports moments ardently rooting for the Nuggets and the Orioles.

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Annie Howard

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Arts And Culture

‘I Saw The TV Glow’ Unfurls The Great Trans Unknown

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

A promotional poster for the James Bond film "No Time To Die" starring Daniel Craig at a cineplex in Shanghai showing all six actors who have played the character James Bond.

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It’s Not Who Plays The Next Bond, It’s How You Write Him

Guy Ritchie speaks onstage during the Special NY Screening of "The Gentlemen" at the Alamo Drafthouse on January 11, 2020 in New York City.

Special NY Screening Of “The Gentlemen” At The Alamo Drafthouse

Guy Ritchie Is The Least Appreciated Director In The World

Danny Sullivan writes <a href="https://theunderline.substack.com/">The Underline</a>, a newsletter covering books, movies, and ideas. He lives in Santa Fe.

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Danny Sullivan

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‘Dune’ Novels, Ranked By Unfilmability

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Kelsey McKinney

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Defector At The Movies

Everything I Remember About ‘Madame Web’

Nicholas Russell is a writer from Las Vegas.

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Nicholas Russell

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‘Origin’ Fails As Both Homework And Entertainment

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Lauren Theisen

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Stuck In The One-Woman Myth

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Soraya Roberts

A garden party scene from The Zone Of Interest

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‘The Zone Of Interest’ Is About Cognitive Harmony

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“The Iron Claw” Dallas World Premiere

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‘The Iron Claw’ And The Real Von Erich Story Go Together Like Pizza And Muffins

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UNSPECIFIED - CIRCA 1921: Conrad Veidt as "Cesare" in the film "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari". Photograph. 1921

Conrad Veidt as “Cesare” in the film “The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari”. Photograph. 1921

This Is A Damn Conrad Veidt Appreciation Blog

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Barry Petchesky

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Harold Lloyd Terrifying Babe Ruth With Bad Driving Is Now In The Public Domain

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Defector Staff

Year In Review

The Best Things We Watched In 2023

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

<div>Adam Charles Hart is an author, curator, and archivist who lives in Pittsburgh. His second book, &#8216;Raising the Dead: The Work of George A. Romero, will be out in early 2024 from Oxford University Press.</div>
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Adam Charles Hart

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

DW Griffith, Mary Pickford, Charlie Chaplin, Douglas Fairbanks signing contract establishing United Artists motion picture studio. (Photo by: Photo12/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

DW Griffith, Mary Pickford, Charlie Chaplin, Douglas Fairbanks.

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A Unified Theory Of The Death Of The Movie Star

Katharine Trendacosta writes about tech policy, the entertainment industry, pop culture, and where those things intersect. In her day job, she&#8217;s the Associate Director of Policy and Activism for the digital civil liberties nonprofit the Electronic Frontier Foundation. (Her writing here reflects her views alone and not those of EFF.) In her spare time, she writes things like this.

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Actor and writer Daheli Hall, left, joins WGA members as they cheer on the first day of their strike in front of Paramount Studios in Hollywood on May 2, 2023.

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The Writers Are Striking For The Future Of Entertainment

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Movies Have A Reality Disease. ‘Sisu’ Is The Cure

John Semley is a writer and researcher based in Philadelphia.

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John Semley

Clint Eastwood at a podium, it's an animated GIF, and different Clint Eastwood fake twitter accounts slowly fill the screen

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This Is So Stupid

A Fistful Of Eastwoos: Inside The Battle For Clint Twitter

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The Gunplay Of ‘John Wick’ Is A Bit Too Real For Comfort

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Israel Daramola

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Tom Sizemore’s Characters Made Movies Better

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Mac McClung is congratulated by a bunch of much more high-profile NBA players after winning the Slam Dunk Contest at the 2023 NBA All-Star Weekend in Utah.

2023 NBA All-Star – AT&T Slam Dunk Contest

Podcasts

Mac McClung And The Soft Bigotry Of Low Expectations, With Israel Daramola

Family Viewing

The Best Things We Watched In 2022

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Please Remove Me From This List

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Don’t Tell Mom The Babysitter’s Dead, Or That Christina Applegate Is Now Older Than Her

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