Before I made my trip to Park City, Utah for the 2009 Sundance Film Festival I gave you a list of the 13 films I was most interested in seeing. And now that I’ve come and gone, surviving another year in the hustle and bustle of America’s great festival, it is my duty to bookend my covera...

Having heard our Sundance welcome from the oracle that is Robert Redford, Defamer advanced to actual movies late Thursday with the opening-night premiere of the sweet, slightly sick claymation freak show Mary and Max. Redford put in another cameo at the Eccles Theater, where curious distributors and...

This morning, I got up and picked up my press pass at the Headquarters Marriott with a friend of mine, a fellow member of the press; after, we had a sit-down breakfast. And we talked -- about movies, sure, but about apartments and life and buffet etiquette and mutual friends and mutual enemies and t...

The idea behind arriving to Park City two days prior to the start of the ‘09 Sundance Film Festival was twofold. Primarily, I wanted to be able to get in before the crowds to avoid the hassles of traveling into Salt Lake City this time of year. I also wanted to have a few days to get settled c...

Filed under: Sundance, Festival Reports This morning, I got up and picked up my press pass at the Headquarters Marriott with a friend of mine, a fellow member of the press; after, we had a sit-down breakfast. And we talked -- about movies, sure, but about apartments and life and buffet etiquette and...

Filed under: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Sundance, Theatrical Reviews, Sundance Reviews 2009 Mary and Max , the opening night film of the 2009 Sundance Film Festival, traces the 20 year friendship of two eccentric ugly ducklings who accidentally find each other through the mail and subsequently learn ...