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Not-So-Central Casting: Kevin Smith and the Birth of the Reality Podcast
Emilio Bellu
05 Feb 2012
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Pop Gluttony
I am choosy about what I eat, but continue to chow down on an unfettered pop culture diet as the last great excess that won’t kill me.
17 Feb 2010
Books
Why I Dislike 'Rye': Not be-Holden to Salinger's 'Catcher'
'Catcher in the Rye' is a great novel, but it’s not good. When you're more Ferris Bueller than Holden Caulfield, it's hard to relate to his alienation -- no matter how much teachers want you to.
10 Feb 2010
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Batman: Cacophony
Batman: Cacophony - Kevin Smith - DC Comics [$20]
11 Dec 2009
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Sold Out: A Threevening With Kevin Smith
Alas, this is less about actually spending an evening with Smith, and more about him spending the coin made from that evening.
Aaron Marsh
21 Jan 2009
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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).
30 Oct 2008
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Accepting the Blame: The Top Guilty Pleasures of 2007
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.
16 Jan 2008
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Southland Tales
The very incoherence of Southland Tales is something like an argument, its many pieces and pronouncements a deconstructive challenge to world order.
13 Nov 2007
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Catch and Release (2006)
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.
13 May 2007
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TMNT (2007)
The CGI allows the Turtles to have facial expressions, though here these mostly range from angsty to angstier.
Daynah Burnett
23 Mar 2007
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Catch and Release (2006)
That this movie doesn’t find a way out of the morass of generic cliché and triviality isn't surprising, but it is disappointing.
25 Jan 2007
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The Pay Off: The Best Film of 2006
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.
10 Jan 2007
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An Evening With Kevin Smith 2 - Evening Harder (2006)
This DVD is good for some laughs, but perhaps slightly too complicit in its own limitations.
Jesse Hassenger
05 Dec 2006
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Clerks II (2006)
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.
20 Jul 2006
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Jersey Girl (2003)
Affleck and Smith talk lots about shooting details and feelings about their chosen fields, their mutual esteem and affection audible.
Cynthia Fuchs
07 Sep 2004
Film
Jersey Girl (2003)
Early in Jersey Girl, Ben Affleck cries. It's a grim and alarming moment.
Cynthia Fuchs
25 Mar 2004
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