Articles tagged "kevin smith"

TV DVD Review

Sold Out: A Threevening With Kevin Smith

by Aaron Marsh

[21.Jan.09] :. Alas, this is less about actually spending an evening with Smith, and more about him spending the coin made from that evening.

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News

Kevin Smith paved the way for Judd Apatow, but Apatow’s success made ‘Zack and Miri’ possible

by Mark Caro [Chicago Tribune (MCT)]

[31.Oct.08] :. Kevin Smith’s 1994 debut comedy, “Clerks,” was so foulmouthed that it was initially rated NC-17 just for its language. Even downgraded to an R, the movie’s frank talk wowed...

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Film Review

Zack and Miri Make a Porno

by Cynthia Fuchs

[31.Oct.08] :. All the hubbub leads to a standard coupling, the regular boy wins the exceptional girl (because in the boy's mind, she is always exceptional, even if, in your mind, she's settling).

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Kevin Smith’s new comedy ‘Zack and Miri’ isn’t a skin flick, but it qualifies as raunchy

by John Anderson [Newsday (MCT)]

[28.Oct.08] :. BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. - A rose by any other name would smell as sweet. And “Zack and Miri Make a Porno,” by any other name, would still be the raunchiest comedy of the year. But...

PopWire

Accepting the Blame: The Top Guilty Pleasures of 2007

by PopMatters Staff

[17.Jan.08] :. PopMatters proffers its collection of 2007's most notable defective faves. And it's okay to laugh. After all, we'd probably do the same to you and your uncomfortable fixations as well.

Southland Tales

by Cynthia Fuchs

[14.Nov.07] :. The very incoherence of Southland Tales is something like an argument, its many pieces and pronouncements a deconstructive challenge to world order.

Catch and Release (2006)

by Matt Mazur

[14.May.07] :. That this film somehow managed to attract such an array of diverse talent, and was marketed as a feminine romantic comedy, will confound viewers to no end.

Cowabunga! ‘TMNT’ rules

by David Hinckley [New York Daily News (MCT)]

[26.Mar.07] :. All it took to conquer 300 indomitable Spartan warriors was four Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. “TMNT,” the animated green guys’ return to the big screen after 14 years in...

TMNT (2007)

by Daynah Burnett

[23.Mar.07] :. The CGI allows the Turtles to have facial expressions, though here these mostly range from angsty to angstier.

Catch and Release (2006)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[26.Jan.07] :. That this movie doesn’t find a way out of the morass of generic cliché and triviality isn't surprising, but it is disappointing.

The Pay Off: The Best Film of 2006

by PopMatters Staff

[11.Jan.07] :. For many of the movies on PopMatters' 2006 list of the year's best films, it is clear that a heavy personal and professional stake was riding on the final product.

An Evening With Kevin Smith 2 - Evening Harder (2006)

by Jesse Hassenger

[6.Dec.06] :. This DVD is good for some laughs, but perhaps slightly too complicit in its own limitations.

Clerks II (2006)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[21.Jul.06] :. The point of Clerks, either number, is talk -- speedy, competitive, clever banter that recalls, in its profane way, the rhythms of old Ben Hecht comedies.

Jersey Girl (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[8.Sep.04] :. Affleck and Smith talk lots about shooting details and feelings about their chosen fields, their mutual esteem and affection audible.

Jersey Girl (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[26.Mar.04] :. Early in Jersey Girl, Ben Affleck cries. It's a grim and alarming moment.

Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (2001)

by Ben Varkentine

Here's the short version of this review: 'Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back' is a very funny movie.

Dogma (1999)

by Todd R. Ramlow

Kevin Smith's recent offering, Dogma, is truly the cinematic equivalent of Michael Stipe's over-burdened generational angst and swollen lyrics.