year in review
Celebrate Our Winners! The 2008 Top 10 of Top 10 Lists, Part II
2:30AM STV | Believe it or not, there are five critics whose year-end Top 10 lists are even more mystifying, patience-testing and all-around terrible than those five awarded here yesterday. And the Listys go to…
Critics Gone Wild: The Top 10 of Top 10 Lists of 2008, Part I
5:07AM STV | The Top 10 mania that grips year-end film culture provides some of the most vulgar oversimplifications, abstractions, nonsense, critical self-regard and hype known to man. We’ve read the worst so you don’t have to. More »
2008 Defamer Editors’ Choice
7:21AM Seth | As we wind down another year of mind-boggling Hollywood highs and lows, we thought we’d crack open the 2008 archives and bring you some of our personal favourites. Our choices after the jump:
Defamer’s Most-Viewed Stories of 2008
3:42AM Kyle Buchanan | Whether you’re a handsome benefactor or simply a curious reader, our list of the biggest, most-viewed stories Defamer published this year has something for everyone. Mysteries! Nudity! Hasselbeck! Won’t you take a look?The Best and Worst Movie Posters of 2008
8:02AM STV | While film critics’ Top 10 lists pile up around the Web, our own review of 2008 must start where any true movie interest starts: The posters. We scoured hundreds of one-sheets, banners, international posters and other materials for the handful that provoke, move, repel and entrance — sometimes all at once. Your mileage may vary, and a few notable omissions will have to wait a year for revisiting. But find below what we hope will inspire more studios and designers — for better or worse — to an improved 2009.
Defamer’s 2008 Video Hall of Shame
5:42AM Seth | It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. Mostly worst. As 2008—the shittiest year on human record—winds down, we’ve collected for you some of its most shameful moments, caught of video. More »
Defamer’s Top Ten Man-On-The-Street Videos Of 2007
5:24AM Defamer Hollywood | Yesterday, Defamer videographer Molly McAleer compiled for us the Top 10 Videos of 2007, a pastiche of sobbing talk show hosts, cold-hearted hunks, sassy Galileo revisionists, and delicious floorburgers. Today, she brings things a little bit closer to home–could we dim the lights please?–lovingly scrapbooking Defamer’s Top 10 Man-On-the-Street Videos of 2007. We begin with the streetweary insights of Chinese Theater Spider-Man, schooled by Chewbacca in a little-know martial art called Qui-Gon Jinn, that he might more efficiently fend off countless molesty tourists hoping for a cheap grab at his webslingers. Enjoy. More »
