Kevin Smith is urging the Academy Awards to give people what they want: popular movies nominated for Best Picture.During Smith’s FatMan Beyond podcast, the “Clerks” creator gave “Spider-Man: No Way Home” a special shoutout following the Oscar nominations announcement.“I would just like to congratulate the good folks who made ‘Spider-Man: No Way Home’ for the […]
Continue reading(Welcome to Survey Says, a feature where we conduct a movie-related survey for a random group of people and explain why they’re completely right, completely wrong, or somewhere in-between.)It’s survey time again, folks, and this time we asked 588 human beings in the United States of America to pick which Kevin Smith movie they thought […]
Continue readingThe voice of Kevin Smith is probably more prominently and frequently heard than any other filmmaker working today. Aside from becoming an influential writer/director thanks to his sensational Sundance-selected comedy “Clerks,” the growth of geek culture, the popularity of comic books, and the rise of podcasting as a popular medium paved the way for Smith […]
Continue reading(Welcome to …And More, our no-frills, zero B.S. guide to when and where you can watch upcoming movies and shows, and everything else you could possibly stand to know.) It’s been thirty years since Clerks writer-director Kevin Smith sat down in a theater and watched Richard Linklater‘s Slackers, inspiring him to create his own movie. […]
Continue readingThe Morning Watch is a recurring feature that highlights a handful of noteworthy videos from around the web. They could be video essays, fanmade productions, featurettes, short films, hilarious sketches, or just anything that has to do with our favorite movies and TV shows. In this edition, find out how Sound of Metal created the […]
Continue readingMovies traditionally are released in theaters on Wednesdays and Fridays, but come Monday, April 20, “4/20” the movie will be released on Vimeo on the date that’s considered a perennial stoner holiday — it has even greater significance this month seeing as the year is 2020.Producer Corey Moss, a veteran of MTV and management company […]
Continue readingIt’s no secret that Hollywood accounting is a shady way of making even the most successful of blockbusters never turn a profit, so it’s no surprise that convicted rapist Harvey Weinstein would be great at making his most successful movies appear to be flops. One of the films that, on paper, still isn’t the obvious […]
Continue readingConvicted rapist Harvey Weinstein is now in a correctional facility, facing 23 years in prison in addition to pending Los Angeles charges, and documentarian Malcolm Ingram has made a film about one of Weinstein’s success stories, Kevin Smith. However, telling Variety that “You can’t tell this fairytale story without mentioning the monster,” he opened up […]
Continue readingAfter winning the Oscar for Best Adapted screenplay for his Nazi satire “Jojo Rabbit,” Taika Waititi has reportedly signed on to co-write, executive produce, and direct some episodes of a limited series from Showtime, “The Auteur.”The series, which is still in development, would see Waititi adapting the psychedelic graphic novel of the same name by […]
Continue readingWith Jay and Silent Bob Reboot, writer and director Kevin Smith dug back into his interconnected series of comedies known as the View Askewniverse. The movie felt like a farewell of sorts to characters from Clerks, Mallrats, Chasing Amy, Dogma, and Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, but instead, Smith seems to be reinvigorated to […]
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