REVIEW: Clerks III [2022]

Spare the heretic I damned in jest. After a well-publicized implosion despite having already written a script and secured financing wherein everything fell apart in ways that had writer/director Kevin Smith admitting he didn’t see a way back, Clerks III is finally in the can … with a completely new script. Was it an extension of the salary issues that plagued co-lead Jeff Anderson from the beginning or a simple lack of interest in going back to the well that made him hesitate? Bits and pieces can be gleaned from…

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REVIEW: Tusk [2014]

“I believe we’re all tea people” I want to dismiss Kevin Smith‘s second foray into horror as total bullshit. I really do. Not only was Tusk created on a lark because one of his and Scott Mosier‘s internet Smodcasts recorded them discussing a crazy Gumtree ad offering a room for rent if the lodger agreed to wear a walrus suit, but because the “ad” in question was itself a fictitious prank by poet Chris Parkinson. Smith’s listeners voted to have a film made out of the restructured, warped version of…

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