“I’m Not Wearing That Girls Leotard!” March 1st, 2009 The major change that we’re getting during this season of The Amazing Race is that there is no rest for the wicked - while before there were often legs which were constructed so as to require no planes at all, staying with...

“Your Target is your Partner’s Face” February 22nd, 2009 When this, the second episode of The Amazing Race’s fourteenth season, begins, there’s a sequence where the teams all start talking about how much they are inspired by Margie and Luke, the latter of whom is the ra...

Curious as to how Mike White (the multi-hyphenate behind films like School of Rock and Nacho Libre) ended up a contestant on The Amazing Race ? White talked to Defamer about what exactly got him running. So where did the idea to do the show come from? I'm a not-so-closeted reality TV fan, a traitor ...

Back at the Cannes film festival, Jack Black made news when the comedian touted that he’d be down for a sequel to his generation-spanning surprise hit, “School of Rock.” When we caught up with Black however, he revealed the one caveat to the deal…don’t expect him back w...

First off, a hearty huzzah to Guillermo del Toro and "Hellboy II," which managed (just barely) to hold off Will Smith and win the box-office weekend with about $36 million. Personally, I found it to be almost as fun as the first "Hellboy," even if it did eventually just reach creature overload, and ...

· Things we learned at the Los Angeles Film Festival this week. School Of Rock 2 isn't a pipe dream. Guillermo del Toro isn't going to milk The Hobbit. Women deserve equal talk show hosting rights, too. Nobody wanted to make Animal House . Chris Carter is as secretive as ever. Did somebody or...

Last night, the Slashfilm staff got together via Second Life to brain storm strategy for something really trivial. Screenwriter, comedian and all around decent guy, Mike White, was kind enough to alert the online press that he had completed the script to School of Rock 2 . Our dilemma: What could Sl...

Listening to Scott Van Pelt's ESPN radio show this afternoon, I heard the story of John Challis. It is a touching story of a Pennsylvania high school kid dying from cancer who was put in to bat during his high school teams game. He got a hit. Nothing unusual about cancer and kids, we've all know fam...

Mike White of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette recently told the story of a courageous 18 year old named John Challis. The inspirational young man has been in the battle of his life and his doctors have recently acknowledged that his hard fought fight against cancer is getting close to the end. The senio...

If you observe Judd Apatow's pervy rom-com assembly line with even casual frequency, you probably don't need a Wikipedia entry to remind you how accusations of sexism and misogyny have plagued the writer-producer-director over the years. At least we hope you don't, because an eagle-eyed Defamer read...