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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…