Defendor, Arthur Poppington (Woody Harrelson), may be dimwitted and a goof but the world he lives in is real and unforgiving. I would say it is no place for someone like him but Arthur tries to adapt ...

Where did this even come from? Earlier this year, the LA Film Festival premiered a film called Paper Man, that starred Ryan Reynolds as a wanna-be superhero. Now along comes Defendor, which is ...

Rollo Tomasi is a Connecticut-based film critic, TV show critic, news, and editorial writer. He will have a MFA in Creative Writing from Columbia University in 2026. Rollo has written over 700 film, ...

"Just call me... Defendor!" Although the Toronto Film Festival has wrapped up, our coverage isn't entirely finished just yet. A few days ago Peter from SlashFilm and I decided to just recorded a video ...

Arthur Poppington (Woody Harrelson) is an outsider who spends his days holding up the warning sign on a construction site and doesn't have much of a social circle otherwise. But at night, he dons his ...

Tribute's Bonnie Laufer sat down with first-time director Peter Stebbings to talk about Defendor, which he also wrote. In Defendor, reality intersects with delusion in the mind of Arthur Poppington ...

At its core, Defendor is a straightforward satire whose underlying conceit is the audience’s inability to discern how reliable a narrator Harrelson’s Arthur Poppington is. He seems determined to take ...

The new movie “Kick-Ass” suggests a number of fun follow-ups on DVD and video. Brand new to DVD is “Defendor” (2009), a low- budget take on the regular-person-dresses-up-to-fight-crime story starring ...

Arthur Poppington is an outsider in his neighbourhood, living at society's edge. Only at night does he don his superhero costume and try to restore order on the streets. But he proves so inept that ...