Features
Monday, February 6 2012
Not-So-Central Casting: Kevin Smith and the Birth of the Reality Podcast
Filmmaker Kevin Smith may be in a celluloid slump, but his new podcast network is on point.
Wednesday, January 18 2012
The Best Male Film Performances of 2011
In another strong year, crime and punishment take on heart and heroism for the right to be called 2011's best male film acting work.
Tuesday, January 11 2011
The Worst Films of 2010
When Hollywood delivers the stink bombs, they are strident in their creative stench. Need proof? Just check out the ten titles below.
Friday, January 16 2009
The New Classics - The 30 Best Films of 2008
Unlike previous years, where classics came crawling out of the celluloid woodwork with regular reckless abandon, 2008 was more calm… and considered. That's not to say that choosing 30 top titles was hard. The difficulty in placing them in some manner of rank order suggests the actual depth of quality involved.
Tuesday, January 13 2009
Celulloid Culpability - Top 10 Film Guilty Pleasures of 2008
Like comedy or music, one's choice in cinematic pleasure can be very personal - and very peculiar. Take this tantalizing list of shameful indulgences. You can argue over their artistic value, but their individuals rewards definitely speak to those who champion them.
Reviews
Friday, October 28 2011
'Red State' Is the Worst Movie of Kevin Smith’s Career
It’s becoming more and more difficult to remember what Kevin Smith such an appealing and winsome filmmaker in the first place.
Tuesday, August 10 2010
All Fall Down: Batman Widening Gyre #1-6
Filmmaker Kevin Smith attempts to write Widening Gyre into the Batman mythos as a psychologically defining moment for the Bruce Wayne character.
Thursday, July 29 2010
'Cop Out' Plays Good Movie / Bad Movie
Kevin Smith has crafted a spoof comedy of the lowest caliber -- but for once, that’s a good thing.
Friday, February 26 2010
Cop Out
Cop Out is a snooze-fest in the action department, which means it's missing a key component of the cop-buddy genre it's supposedly saluting.
Friday, October 31 2008
Zack and Miri Make a Porno
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).
Blogs
Monday, October 17 2011
God(less) In Three Persons/Parts: 'Red State'
As separate acts, as well written movements meant to completely undermine the state of organized religion today, Red State is mesmerizing.
Friday, February 26 2010
'Cop Out' Is Conventional Contemporary Entertainment
Kevin Smith's Cop Out is funny - at least some of the time. It is competently directed (don't think so - run over the oeuvre…
Thursday, November 19 2009
In the *&%#$ Beginning: Kevin Smith 3-Movie Collection (Blu-ray)
Kevin Smith is the Richard Pryor of lo-fi independent cinema. No one in modern moviemaking works better "blue". He is a sorcerer of scatology, a…
Sunday, February 1 2009
Kevin Smith: Not Quite Mainstream (Zack and Miri Make a Porno/ Sold Out!: A Threevening with...)
For Kevin Smith, it's all about the story. It's not about fancy camera angles, inferred symbolism, realistic special effects, thematic resonance, or the inevitable flights…
Thursday, October 30 2008
'Zack and Miri' Is a Soft(core) Hearted Delight
Thanks to its mainstreaming by the media (and the ever-present lure of easy access via the Internet), pornography has gone from stern community scandal to…
News
Thursday, March 25 2010
'An Evening with Kevin Smith' is likely to cover a lot of funny ground
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — You don't expect piety from a potty-mouthed guy who made a movie called "Dogma" that savaged the religion of his childhood.…
Thursday, February 25 2010
Kevin Smith is flying high
LOS ANGELES — Kevin Smith has a big mouth and he knows it. When he got bounced off a Southwest Airlines flight for allegedly being…
Friday, October 31 2008
Kevin Smith paved the way for Judd Apatow, but Apatow's success made ‘Zack and Miri' possible
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…
Tuesday, October 28 2008
Kevin Smith's new comedy 'Zack and Miri' isn't a skin flick, but it qualifies as raunchy
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. - A rose by any other name would smell as sweet. And "Zack and Miri Make a Porno," by any other name,…
