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I Finally Ranked All of Kevin Smith’s Films
Now that I’ve caught up with most of the world and watched all of Kevin Smith’s films to date, I get to see the latest one tonight. I’ll be attending the Jay and Silent Bob Reboot roadshow as it lands here in Houston at the River Oaks Theater. It is for an event like this that I started watching all the Smith films after missing them all for the past twenty-five years. Tune in next week for my review of the new flick [and read to the end on my prediction of where Reboot lands], but in lieu of a review today, I thought I’d rank the existing 12 films…
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I Finally Ranked All of Kevin Smith’s Films
Now that I’ve caught up with most of the world and watched all of Kevin Smith’s films to date, I get to see the latest one tonight. I’ll be attending the Jay and Silent Bob Reboot roadshow as it lands here in Houston at the River Oaks Theater. It is for an event like this that I started watching all the Smith films after missing them all for the past twenty-five years. Tune in next week for my review of the new flick [and read to the end on my prediction of where Reboot lands], but in lieu of a review today, I thought I’d rank the existing 12 films…
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I Finally Watched Yoga Hosers
IntroductionClerksMallratsChasing AmyDogmaJay and Silent Bob Strike BackJersey GirlClerks IIZack and Miri Make a PornoCop OutRed StateTusk Sometimes you watch a movie for the plot despite the actors. Sometimes you watch a movie for the actors notwithstanding the plot. Then there are those films in which both sides come together and you get something magnificent. Anyone can come up with a short list of movies that fall in these three categories. Of the dozen films Kevin Smith has made to date, you can put them all into these categories. Where would you put Yoga Hosers, the 2016 movie starring Harley Quinn Smith (Smith’s daughter) and Lily-Rose Depp (Johnny Depp’s daughter)? The…
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I Finally Watched Tusk
IntroductionClerksMallratsChasing AmyDogmaJay and Silent Bob Strike BackJersey GirlClerks IIZack and Miri Make a PornoCop OutRed State I’ll freely admit I’m of two minds about this 2014 movie by Kevin Smith. One the one hand, it’s a grotesque film with a truly horrendous outcome that leaves little in the way of hope. On the other, it’s truly a Kevin Smith film. A Return to the Smith of Old I don’t know much of the backstory of what happened to Smith the film director after completing Red State. In his book, Tough Shit, Smith comments that he didn’t want to make Kevin Smith films anymore. Understandable considering the genre he helped to…
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What David Bowie Means to Me
This is long and personal. It’s something I needed to write. It all started with a song. That’s typically how most people discover their favorite artists. The one song they hear on the radio, a friend’s sound system, or MTV (back in the day). Ironically, my love of David Bowie’s music started with a Queen song. You know the one. “Under Pressure.” I literally have no memory of David Bowie before 1983. I am an only child and discovered all my pop and rock music on my own. KISS was an easy find because, in 1977-1979, they were everywhere. Plus, I found them because of how they looked. They were…
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The Gospel of Creativity with Kevin Smith
I went to “church” on Wednesday night and the preacher was Kevin Smith. Some of you will probably stop reading right now. Kevin Smith? The independent director of films like “Clerks,” “Chasing Amy,” and “Jersey Girl”? The guy who has a few dozen podcasts and fills them with talk of film and comics and humor all laced with profanities? Yup, that’s the one. I’m unique in the world of Kevin Smith fandom. I’ve never seen any of his films. I know him as a podcast personality. Three years ago, while listening to the podcast from SF Signal, there was mention of “…a Batman podcast by filmmaker Kevin Smith where he…