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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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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…