Defamer would like to take just a moment to salute a true American hero — a local filmmaker whose vision, dedication and utter depravity have resulted in some of the bravest and most honest films of our time. His name is Ira Isaacs; you may know him as the maker of such “shock art” (i.e. [...]

Night sweats? Crippling depression? Physical incapacitation? Yes, you’re probably experiencing Celebrity Rehab withdrawal systems. To help ween you off the sweet high of a season spent freebasing Dr. Drew and his ragtag gang of Pasadena Recovery Center misfits, Defamer videographer Molly McAleer brings you outtakes from today’s Very Special Tyra™, an episode devoted entirely to [...]


In a cry for help not-so-curiously coinciding with this week’s surge in comics-to-film blockbusters, Lionsgate announced Tuesday that it plans to bump up Frank Miller’s adaptation of The Spirit from Jan. 16, 2009, to Dec. 25 of this year. And why not? Flanked by fellow Christmas Day releases Bedtime Stories (an Adam Sandler “laffer”) and [...]

If we can rely on American Idol for one thing, it’s to witness some of our favorite pop and rock standards get mutilated in increasingly graphic and elaborate ways, like some nubile brunette exchange student wandering unwittingly into an Eli Roth movie. It was Jason Castro who delivered last night’s purest moment of armrest-clutching terror, [...]

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