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Kevin Smith and Jason Mewes are on the road once again. The two best friends have worked in movies and television shows for decades. Smith and Mewes, better known as their fictional stoner selves, Jay and Silent Bob, are the total opposite in real life.

For one thing, writer/director Kevin Smith, who portrays Silent Bob, is silent. When Smith is not behind the camera, he usually hosts one of his many podcasts or hits the road, telling stories and giving inspirational talks on filmmaking and following your dreams.

Jason Mewes, who has portrayed Jay the loudmouth Jay, is an accomplished actor, director, and father. His directorial debut movie Madness in the Method was good. I’m looking forward to seeing him behind the camera the next time. And if he ever needs any advice, he can ask one of his best friends.

Kevin Smith has always been an inspirational person to me.

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"My Name Is Earl" is one of those sitcoms that remains beloved to a select group of fans but never really caught on in the zeitgeist in a way like "The Office" or "30 Rock" did. It had a great, heartwarming premise of the titular Earl (Jason Lee) wanting to make amends to all the people he's wronged in his troublemaking life. Earl typically hung around an eclectic group of characters to help (or hinder) him along his journey, and there was the potential for the show to make some big waves had it been allowed to continue.

Sadly, "My Name Is Earl" was canceled after four seasons due to negotiation issues between the network and the studio. It was an anticlimactic development, especially seeing as season 4 ended on a cliffhanger with the revelation that Darnell (Eddie Steeples) wasn't the father to Earl Jr.

Before the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Stan Lee was known as a Marvel Comics writer and editorial director. He was instrumental in creating some of the company's most prominent characters and oversaw the entire comic book universe's direction. Lee went from the voice of Marvel to its cameo king over the course of his illustrious career, and even fans who weren't familiar with him before soon got to know the guy, thanks to Lee's frequent MCU appearances. However, he was stealthily starting his cameo career well before the MCU, and unbeknownst to many, his résumé includes a truly offbeat appearance in Disney's "The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement."

In this 2004 romantic comedy that depicts the further adventures of Princess of Genovia Mia Thermopolis (Anne Hathaway), Lee has a brief but fun turn as a foreign wedding guest who does his best to greet Queen Clarisse (Julie Andrews) with language skills that,...

Jay and Silent Bob movies have seen the iconic stoner duo playing supporting characters as well as leading their own movies, and despite the madcap absurdism, they do have something of a continuity and chronological order. Writer/director Kevin Smith became an indie sensation thanks to his micro-budget debut Clerks in 1994. That was also the movie that introduced the world to Jay, a foul-mouthed, obnoxious, weed-loving punk, and his mostly mute friend Silent Bob. The popularity of these characters would lead to them appearing in several other movies that followed.

Long before the MCU, Smith created his own cinematic universe with the View Askewniverse, with Jay and Silent Bob as the common thread through all the movies. The characters have appeared in cartoon series and even shows and movies outside of Smith's own cinematic universe, but the Jay and Silent Bob movies of the View Askewniverse show the characters' wild...

Movies like Clerks III deliver raunchy humor with heart. With Clerks III, Kevin Smith returned to the franchise that he started his career with, delivering yet another chapter in the story of Dante Hicks and Randal Graves, the clerks who haven't really done much with their lives since the first movie, where they worked in a convenience store and video store in New Jersey. The third movie follows Randall and Dante, who, faced with their own mortality, decide to make a movie based on their lives at the Quick Stop.

The first Clerks movie was one of the films that helped set the stage for the rise of independent filmmaking in the 1990s. However, the second movie was more in line with something like Mallrats, a teenage R-rated comedy that predated American Pie. While Clerks II received the worst critical acclaim of the franchise trilogy, Clerks III returned with the raunchy R-rated humor,...

Kevin Smith is working on a sequel to his 1999 cult comedy Dogma, he is also in talks with Matt Damon and Ben Affleck to return.

Over the last few years, Kevin Smith has looked to his back catalogue for inspiration for future films. With Clerks 3 officially ending the story of Dante and Jay And Silent Bob Reboot bringing his famous slacking stoners firmly into the 21st century, Smith is now looking at sequels to his other hit films.

Speaking at Vulture Festival over the weekend, Deadline reports that Smith confirmed he’s writing a sequel to Dogma. The 1999 film followed Ben Affleck and Matt Damon as angels cast out of heaven by God, who attempt to exploit a loophole in Catholic Dogma to return. The film features a glorious performance from Alan Rickman, the acting debut of singer songwriter Alanis Morrisette and appearances by Smith’s regular cohorts Jason Mewes,...

“Dogma 2” needs Matt and Ben to get made. Fortunately, Kevin Smith has leverage over them.

During an appearance at the Vulture Festival over the weekend (via Deadline) celebrating the 25th anniversary of Smith’s cult favorite fantasy comedy “Dogma,” the writer-director revealed that he’s working on a sequel to the film, which remains one of his most successful, critically and commercially.

“Some people will be like, ‘Don’t f—ing touch it. You’ll ruin it,’” Smith said at the event. “And I’m here to tell you: I will. I’m f—ing tickled. I found a way in.”

Smith said he is confident that Ben Affleck and Matt Damon, who starred as fallen angels Bartleby and Loki in the original film, will return for the sequel because they owe him for helping their breakthrough film “Good Will Hunting” get made and then forgetting to thank him when...

Kevin Smith has confirmed he's working on a sequel to 'Dogma'.The 54-year-old filmmaker wrote and directed the 1999 fantasy comedy film starring Ben Affleck, 52, as Bartleby and Matt Damon, 54, as Loki and he is hoping the pair will appear in the new movie.Speaking at the Dogma Confessional to mark the flick's 25th anniversary on Sunday (17.11.24) at Vulture Festival, he said: “Some people will be like, ‘Don’t f****** touch it. You’ll ruin it.'“And I’m here to tell you: I will. I’m f****** tickled. I found a way in.”The 'Mallrats' director quipped that he could bribe the pair into filming a cameo because he revived their 1997 film 'Good Will Hunting', but admitted the sequel relies on Ben and Damon reprising their roles as the fallen angels.Kevin said: “I have been able to hold that over both their heads for 25 f****** years,...

Kevin Smith is working on a sequel to Dogma 25 years after its original release, and he expects Ben Affleck and Matt Damon to make at least cameo appearances.

During his “Dogma Confessional” at Vulture Festival, Smith shared his excitement about the project, joking about potential backlash:

Some people will say, ‘Don’t mess with it—you’ll ruin it.’ And I probably will. But I’m thrilled because I’ve found a way to make it happen.”

Smith is confident that Affleck and Damon will return as fallen angels Bartleby and Loki. He humorously added that after helping them with Good Will Hunting in 1997, they owe him.

The panel marked Dogma’s 25th anniversary, reflecting on the original film’s story about two angels trying to find a loophole to get back into heaven. The 1999 movie starred Linda Fiorentino, Salma Hayek, Alan Rickman, Chris Rock, Jason Lee, and Alanis Morissette,...

After 25 years, Kevin Smith is reconnecting with the man upstairs for the unholiest of sequels.

During his Dogma Confessional on Sunday at Vulture Festival, the View Askewniverse creator revealed that he’s working on a sequel to the 1999 film, and he expects Ben Affleck and Matt Damon to return for cameos at least.

“Some people will be like, ‘Don’t f—ing touch it. You’ll ruin it,'” said Smith. “And I’m here to tell you: I will. I’m f—ing tickled. I found a way in.”

He sounded confident that Affleck and Damon would reprise their roles as fallen angels Bartleby and Loki. After Smith helped save the pair’s 1997 film Good Will Hunting, without so much as a thank you in their Golden Globes and Oscars speeches, they owe him.

“I have been able to hold that over both their heads for 25 f—ing years,...

Film audiences may have first recognized Ben Affleck for his appearance in the 1992 film "School Ties," where he played the main sidekick of the film's central bully. In 1993, Affleck was already behind the camera as well, having made a rather notorious 16-minute short film called "I Killed My Lesbian Wife, Hung Her on a Meat Hook, and Now I Have a Three-Picture Deal at Disney." Affleck played a boorish womanizer named Shannon in Kevin Smith's 1995 comedy "Mallrats," and he teamed with Smith again in 1997 to make the stirring queer romantic drama "Chasing Amy." At the end of 1997, Affleck and his friend Matt Damon became awards darlings thanks to Gun Van Sant's "Good Will Hunting" which they both wrote and starred in. 

Affleck has remained a superstar ever since, having appeared in terse studio dramas, mainstream romances, and numerous action films. He played the superheroes Daredevil and Batman and continued to work with Kevin Smith.

Nerdly’s interviewer extraordinaire fills a bucket list dream by sitting down and chatting with one of his all-time favourite directors Kevin Smith about his new flick The 4:30 Movie – a love letter to the glory days of the cinema.

Kevin Smith is an American director, producer, writer, and actor. He came to prominence with the low-budget comedy buddy film Clerks (1994), which he wrote, directed, co-produced, and acted in as the character Silent Bob of stoner duo Jay and Silent Bob, characters who also appeared in Smith’s later films Mallrats (1995), Chasing Amy (1997), Dogma (1999), Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (2001), Clerks II (2006), Jay and Silent Bob Reboot (2019), and Clerks III (2022) which are set primarily in his home state of New Jersey. While not strictly sequential, the films have crossover plot elements, character references, and a shared canon known as the “View Askewniverse”, named after Smith’s production company View Askew Productions,...

In the spring of 1997, Chasing Amy hit theaters, serving as a comeback for writer-director Kevin Smith. Earlier in the decade, the New Jersey filmmaker had launched onto the scene with Clerks, a low-budget comedy about some foul-mouthed buddies who worked at a convenience store, earning rave reviews and announcing Smith as a promising new indie talent. But he tarnished that reputation with his follow-up, Mallrats, which was a commercial bomb and critically derided. It’s no exaggeration to say that Smith’s career was hanging in the balance when he released Chasing Amy, a bittersweet love story about a comic-book artist, Holden (Ben Affleck), who falls in love with a fellow artist, Alyssa (Joey Lauren Adams). They seem to click, but there’s a problem: She’s gay, thinking of him only as a friend. But the more time they spend together, the more she starts to develop romantic feelings for him.

27 years after its initial release, Kevin Smith’s “Chasing Amy” remains a Rorschach test for questions of representation, authorship, and identity in film.

The 1997 film, which served as a comeback for Smith after his studio flop “Mallrats” threatened to derail the indie wunderkind status that he built with “Clerks,” is a distinct product of its time that offers a Gordian knot of messy questions about sexuality filtered through Smith’s distinctly male gaze. Ben Affleck stars as Holden McNeil, a New Jersey comic book writer who falls in love with Alyssa (Joey Lauren Adams in a career-defining performance), a pansexual woman who primarily identifies with the lesbian community. But their whirlwind romance can’t overcome his insecurities over her promiscuous past and the blatant homophobia of his writing partner Banky (Jason Lee), who lashes out at the relationship as a means of dealing with his own repressed homosexuality.

But while...

Real-life comic book magnate Stan Lee, much like fictional newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane, is a jigsaw puzzle who was many things to many different people, depending on the piece of the puzzle they had. For non-comic book reading folks, he was that funny old guy who kept popping up in Marvel movies and had, apparently, even written a few comics himself. For comic aficionados, on the other hand, he was an undeniably important figure in the history of the medium, but also one who had excelled at mythologizing his personal contributions to Marvel Comics at the expense of others.

Lee was certainly an expert in the art of building an individual brand, which, in that respect, makes Kevin Smith his heir apparent. In point of fact, the filmmaker, actor, comic book writer, podcaster, and surprise transmasculine style icon is a lot like Lee in that he's arguably as famous...

As the controversial Kevin Smith movie celebrates its 25th anniversary, Dogma is getting a re-release.

The View Askewniverse director revealed that his 1999 religious satire is returning to theaters and getting a new home release after another company purchased the distribution rights from Miramax.

“The movie’s been bought away from the guy that had it for years and whatnot,” he said on That Hashtag Show. “The company that bought it, we met with them a couple months ago. They were like, ‘Would you be interested in re-releasing it and touring it like you do with your movies?’ I said, ‘100 percent, are you kidding me? Touring a movie that I know people like, and it’s sentimental and nostalgic? We’ll clean up.'”

Smith continued, “Right now, 2024 is our 25th anniversary, this year. November is when we came out. So, I think 2025 it looks like is when the movement’s going to happen there.

Kevin Smith wants Sarah Michelle Gellar to play the late Shannen Doherty's role in his 'Mallrats' sequel.The 54-year-old filmmaker has long been working on a follow-up to the 1995 cult comedy and while he planned to shelve the project after the actress - who played Rene Mosier - lost her battle with breast cancer in July, he now wants 'Twilight of the Mallrats' to serve as a tribute to her and thinks it would be appropriate to have the 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' star step in to honour her close friend.He told The Hollywood Reporter: “Shannen’s closest friend was Sarah Michelle Gellar, and I worked with Sarah on 'Masters of the Universe: Revelation'.“So her being Shannen’s bestie and having already tried out for 'Mallrats' 30 years ago next year, I would ask Sarah to step in for...

With news that Kevin Smith could get his Mallrats sequel back on the escalator once again, we do have to wonder who will return. Sadly, with Shannen Doherty’s passing earlier this year, the role of Rene Mosier is the most up in the air. But Smith might have a card up the sleeve of his hockey jersey, saying one of Doherty’s nearest and dearest could fill in.

Kevin Smith recently told The Hollywood Reporter that he has a plan to potentially cast none other than fellow former WB star Sarah Michelle Gellar in the Mallrats sequel, allowing both Rene and the legacy of Shannen Doherty to live on. “Shannen’s closest friend was Sarah Michelle Gellar, and I worked with Sarah on Masters of the Universe: Revelation. So her being Shannen’s bestie and having already tried out for Mallrats 30 years ago next year, I would ask Sarah...

Kevin Smith offered the latest on Twilight of the Mallrats (Mallrats 2), the long-awaited sequel to the 1995 cult film Mallrats, which starred Shannen Doherty, Jason Lee, Claire Forlani, and Jeremy London.

When discussing the potential sequel — that has been in stuck in limbo for years — during an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Smith said that after Doherty’s death in July following a battle with cancer, he considered walking away from the project all together. “My first feeling after Shannen passed was like, ‘Well, that’s it,'” he told THR.

The 4:30 Movie writer-director Kevin Smith is well aware that filmmakers are in a self-reflective phase, especially after the wake-up call that was the recent global pandemic. In the past few years alone, Kenneth Branagh (Belfast) and James Gray (Armageddon Time) have made period dramas based on their childhoods, but most notably, Steven Spielberg put out The Fabelmans in 2022, detailing how his parents’ divorce intersected with his budding filmmaking prowess. Smith’s 16th feature about his four first loves — his neighborhood movie theater, his adolescent crush and his two best friends — is already being compared to Spielberg’s most recent Oscar-nominated film.

“A lot of nice people online have been saying that [The 4:30 Movie] is kind of like The Fabelmans, and I was like, ‘Oh, that’s sweet.’ And then The New York Times was like, ‘Yeah, it’s kind of like The Fabelmans if the kid grows up to make terrible movies,...

When Kevin Smith made "Clerks" in 1994, he was only 23 and ignorant of the ways of filmmaking. Smith was inspired to make a movie by Richard Linklater's "Slacker," figuring he could write a fun screenplay based on the way he and his friend conversed. Made for only $27,575, "Clerks" was about witty but directionless twentysomethings as they struggled through their romantic angst while trapped at their dead-end jobs. "Clerks" struck a nerve with Gen-Xers, introducing a certain type of pop culture chatter that hadn't really been heard in movies before. It was a huge hit.

Smith returned in 1995 with "Mallrats," another single-day movie about twentysomethings wrestling with their romances and emotional immaturity. His 1997 film "Chasing Amy" was an unconventional romance about a straight man who falls in love with a lesbian, and how the lesbian may be developing feelings for him in exchange. Ultimately, however, the straight man's sexual insecurity causes their relationship to implode.

Veep‘s election fundraiser reunion has booked some special guests.

Joining the cast and writers of HBO’s iconic political comedy for a live table read event on Sunday are Veep creator Armando Iannucci, along with Larry David, Jason Alexander and Kevin Smith.

“We’re so thrilled to have Armando, the creator of Veep, joining us,” Veep‘s showrunner David Mandel tells The Hollywood Reporter. “And I am so excited to have my old boss Larry David along with Jason Alexander. It’s kind of like a mini-Seinfeld reunion stuffed inside a Veep reunion. Like a turducken.”

Of the filmmaker of such classic franchises as Jay and Silent Bob and Mallrats, Mandel adds, “Kevin Smith is the biggest Veep fan I know and his movies have always been as wonderfully foul as Veep, so it’s a perfect combination to have him as part of our table read!”

Mandel,...

Shannen Doherty's best movies and TV shows showed the great range of the actress, as she became a massive television star in three different decades while also turning in some quality film roles along the way. Doherty started her career as a child actor, getting early roles in shows like Father Murphy and Voyagers before she got her first major TV role in Little House on the Prairie. After making her name in that show as a pre-teen, she also voiced a role in The Secret of Nimh before her career skyrocketed.

Most fans know Doherty from her television career. As a teen, she appeared in Our House, where she garnered award recognition, before she took on a starring role in one of the most popular television shows of the 1990s, Beverly Hills, 90210, as Brenda Walsh. While that remains the role she remained best known for throughout the rest of her career,...

Kevin Smith says that he was not a fan of Chasing Amy star Ben Affleck ad-libbing in the film and revealed an instance regarding the film's marketing that caused the pair to clash. Chasing Amy is Smith's third film and was released in 1997. In the film, Affleck plays a comic book artist named Holden McNeil, who falls in love with a lesbian named Alyssa Jones (Joey Lauren Adams).

While speaking with EW, Smith talked about how Affleck loves to ad lib, and did so many times while filming Chasing Amy. Smith, who was also the screenwriter of the film, then told the actor to just stick to the lines that were written for Holden in the script. Smith also joked about how he told Affleck to save his ideas for his own script, and how he later did, and won an Oscar for it for Good Will Hunting. Smith's full...

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Kevin Smith's 1990s slacker comedy cult classic, Mallrats, has long been in need of a modern-day sequel, but will Mallrats 2 ever actually happen? Released in 1995 to little critical or commercial fanfare, Mallrats concerns a pair of aimless slackers (played by Jeremy London and Jason Lee) who spend an eventful day at the local mall after one of them breaks off their long-term relationship. Released in the wake of director Kevin Smith's groundbreaking indie hit, Clerks, Mallrats captured the cultural zeitgeist of the mid-'90s, but failed to score at the box office like its predecessor.

Bookended by much bigger hits in Kevin Smith's lengthy filmography, Mallrats is nevertheless a cult classic, and Smith has been keen on keeping the legend alive. Sequel hopes have been high in the nearly 30 years since the movie debuted,...

If you’re a fan of director Kevin Smith, you’ve probably seen movies like Clerks, Mallrats and Dogma, but one of his films has hardly been viewed by anyone at all.

In 2022, Smith released KillRoy Was Here, a low-budget horror anthology, loosely based on the World War II graffiti meme, and made with a crew of Florida film students. But the movie didn’t come to theaters, or streaming services, or even Betamax, it was issued exclusively as 5,555 NFTs on the Legendao platform, meaning the film was unavailable to watch unless you had the special “crypto key.”

Two years later, it still hasn’t been made available anywhere else.

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Even Smith fans seemed pretty miffed at this arrangement, which essentially prevented them from ever watching the movie without shelling out big bucks to some crypto company.

But going the Nft route wasn’t always the plan for KillRoy Was Here.

In another world, The 4:30 Movie might have been named ‘Movierats’. Kevin Smith has long told tales of New Jersey kids simply hanging out, be it at the local shop (Clerks), the local fast-food restaurant (Clerks II), or the local mall (Mallrats). Here, he takes that template and applies it to the local multiplex — what better love-letter to cinema than a film set almost entirely at the cinema? And more specifically, the cinema of Smith’s own youth, which he now owns and operates as Smodcastle Cinemas in Atlantic Highlands, NJ? Disappointingly, for all the promise in the premise, it rarely projects in quite the way you’d hope.

In typical Smith style, this is very much a story from the heart, remixing personal experience in cinematic form — lead character Brian David (a charming and engaging Austin Zajur) is a clear Kevin Smith stand-in, a deeply nerdy kid with a passion for cinema,...

Kevin Smith has shared that he received death threats over his 1999 comedy film Dogma. The fourth film in Smith's View Askewniverse series deals with religious themes and Catholicism. Singer Alanis Morissette even played Smith's version of God in the film.

While speaking with EW, Smith reminisced about his films, including Clerks (1994) and Mallrats (1995). When talking about Dogma, Smith said that the film received thousands of angry letters due to the film's religious subject matter. This included receiving three death threats. Smith's full quote about the angry reaction to the film can be found below:

"[Dogma] was my fourth motion picture, and I almost got killed over it. 400,000 pieces of hate mail and three bona fide death threats."

Dogma Was Another Personal Story From Kevin Smith The Filmmaker Has Talked Many Times About Growing Up Catholic

Having grown up Catholic himself, Smith tapped into that experience for Dogma, using it to...

Director Kevin Smith provides an update on the possibility of making Mallrats 2, a follow-up to his 90s cult classic. Written and directed by Smith, Mallrats was released in 1995 as the follow-up to his wildly successful comedy classic Clerks, and starred Jason Lee, Jeremy London, Shannen Doherty, Michael Rooker, and Claire Forlani. While the movie was not a box office success, it was popular on home video, and, like its predecessor, went on to develop a cult following.

In an interview with Deadline, Smith discusses the possibility of making Mattrats 2. The Chasing Amy director and New Jersey native previously planned to make the movie before Clerks III, even at one point announcing a 10-episode Mallrats TV show that never materialized. Speaking of his continued desire to see a Mallrats sequel, the 54-year-old discusses the challenges of getting the movie made with Universal, and his desire to make it independently. Check out Smith's comments below:

So,...

Say, would you like another chocolate-covered pretzel? Malls may have passed their prime but the rats still roam, as Kevin Smith is still actively interested in returning to his much-discussed Mallrats sequel, Twilight of the Mallrats, if he can get the right support.

Like a schooner in a Magic Eye poster, Mallrats sequel has never fully materialized (whether as a movie or a TV series), with various postponements tied to everything from studio disinterest to the death of Shannen Doherty. But as discussions have popped up once again, Smith sees a way to navigate Universal. “I think we’re going back to have a discussion again about like, look, you guys are never gonna do anything with this. Like, but we can and would and would and would love to. So can you let us take it out? We’re not asking Universal to finance it, but it’s just like,...

From Jason Lee to Justin Long to Jason Mewes, Kevin Smith has brought back a bunch of his regular collaborators to appear in the cast of his latest film, The 4:30 Movie. Shot in Smiths own movie theater, Smodcastle Cinemas in Atlantic Highlands, The 4:30 Movie is his most personal film in years. Its a coming-of-age comedy about a group of teenagers theater-hopping across a single day in the 1980s.

Like Wes Anderson and Martin Scorsese, Smith is known for working with the same actors over and over again. Part of that is because most of his films take place in an interconnected universe, the View Askewniverse, so a lot of actors play the same characters across different movies. But even his non-Askewniverse films, like The 4:30 Movie, have brought in frequent collaborators like Kate Micucci and Diedrich Bader.

Austin Zajur Previously Seen In Clerks III

Brian, the lead character...

Kevin Smith thought Shannen Doherty's death would "close the book" on a 'Mallrats' sequel.The 54-year-old filmmaker has long been working on a follow-up to the 1995 cult comedy and while he planned to shelve the project after the actress - who played Rene Mosier - lost her battle with breast cancer in July, he's revealed it could still go ahead following some promising conversations.Asked about the sequel, which he previously revealed would be called 'Twilight of the Mallrats', Kevin told Deadline: "So, with Shannen’s passing, at that point, I was like, 'Well, I guess that kind of closes the book for us.'"But then a couple of weeks ago, my producer was having a conversation with some folks at Universal."Kevin explained he's been ready to go with the project for some time but studio bosses haven't been interested, so he is hopeful they...

As Hollywood attempts to keep up with the ever-changing face of streaming, Kevin Smith has gotten into the movie theater business.

The director’s latest film is The 4:30 Movie, which serves as a love letter to small-town cinemas. It came at a time when he was feeling “existential” about being “one more goofy-ass tile to this never-ending wall” of film and television content on streaming platforms.

“I know it’s hard out there. It’s always been hard,” he said. “That’s the one thing I could say. But it’s worth the struggle. It’s worth the fight. Like, it’s worth making that tile, man, because that tile winds up being all the difference in some person’s life you’ll never meet.

“I meet people who tell you wonderful things about movies you’ve made years ago that other people lambast, and they’re like: ‘That’s my favorite movie.

Thirty years ago, Kevin Smith burst into the world of independent filmmaking in a blaze of glorious serendipity that nobody could replicate if they tried. Self-financed for less than $30,000 and shot entirely in the convenience store where he worked, the original “Clerks” was an electrifying mix of slacker wit and utter absurdism at a time when putting pop culture-obsessed male mediocrity on the big screen felt like a genuinely novel concept. Even after double digit viewings, the film still feels like a pitch-perfect punk rock farce that can make even the most discerning cinephile laugh out loud more than it has any right to.

None of Smith’s subsequent work caught that kind of lightning in a bottle, but quite a few of his early films were close enough to the original high to be watchable. “Mallrats” is a passable ’90s comedy, “Chasing Amy” is a clever character study anchored...

As someone who grew up loving movies in the 1980s, I can’t help but wonder if we’ll ever shut up about movies from the 1980s. Yeah, a lot of those movies were good. A lot of them also stank out loud. You could make both those statements about any decade for the last 120 years. When, oh when will filmmakers finally move on and, just for a change of pace, make some cinematic love letters to the summer “The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen” and “From Justin to Kelly” came out?

Not today, that’s for sure. “The 4:30 Movie” is a nostalgic throwback to the sleepy summer of 1986, when teenagers watched wrestling religiously, made ironic predictions about the Mets never winning the World Series, and spent all day at the movies jumping from theater to theater. The mission was simple: Buy one ticket to a film rated G, PG...

Plot: Writer-director Kevin Smith presents his most personal film to date with this coming-of-age story — set in the summer of 1986 — that follows three sixteen-year-old friends who spend their Saturdays sneaking into movies at the local cineplex. When one of the guys invites the girl of his dreams to see an R-rated film, all hilarity breaks loose, as a self-important theater manager and teen rivalries interfere with his best-laid plans.

Review: I have been a Kevin Smith fan since I saw Clerks in the mid-90s. Smith had a solid run over the early course of his career, but the 2010s were less kind from a critical standpoint. While I have stood by his projects even when the quality was less than I knew he was capable of, my gut told me that Kevin Smith had another great project in him. I am happy to say that The 4:30 Movie is...

Kevin Smith will always hold a special place in my heart as one of the filmmakers who defined my formative years in cinema. "Clerks," "Mallrats," "Chasing Amy," "Dogma," and even the silly "Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back" were packed full of hilarious yet immature laughs and pop culture references that tickled my funny bone and my geek gland. But ever since he tried to make his own Judd Apatow movie with "Zack and Miri Make a Porno," which made him feel like he ruined Seth Rogen's career at the time, he's struggled to re-capture the comedic voice that once defined him.

"Jay & Silent Bob Reboot" was a clumsy return to Kevin Smith's stoner slacker duo, and while "Clerks III" had a meaningful emotional core inspired by the filmmaker's real life brush with death and a meta narrative about the beginning of his film career, the movie ultimately...

Every mutant in the world of the “X-Men” has some sort of physics-defying superpower, from Jean Grey’s (Jennifer Hale) peerless telekinetic prowess to Scott Summers’ (Ray Chase) laser eyes to Wolverine’s (Cal Dodd) claws that go snikt. But the power at the heart of the appeal of Disney and Marvel’s animated series “X-Men ‘97” is the show’s ability to bridge time and make the current moment in animation feel like days of future past.

“X-Men ‘97” is, in the words of head director and supervising producer Jake Castorena, meant to be a direct spiritual successor to “X-Men: The Animated Series,” the iconic 1992 series produced by Saban Entertainment that ran until 1996. The new show, created by Beau DeMayo (who was subsequently fired from the project before it premiered), returns to many of the same characters, settings, and relationship dynamics, even to many of the same voice actors as the original.

Though he’s best known as an actor, the two-time Oscar winner Ben Affleck has excelled in a variety of fields, including writing, directing and producing. And it was the writing and producing catgories that brought him his two Academy Awards. Let’s take a look back at 18 of his greatest films, ranked worst to best.

Born in 1972, Affleck first gained notice as a hot young actor with supporting performances in movies such as “School Ties” (1992), “Dazed and Confused” (1993) and “Mallrats” (1995). He shot to stardom when he and Damon, lifelong friends, decided to write a couple of plum roles for themselves in the inspirational drama “Good Will Hunting” (1997). The box office smash bring the duo an Oscar and Golden Globe for screenwriting, launching both of their onscreen careers.

Having firmly established himself as a leading man, Affleck decided to try his luck behind the camera by directing the murder mystery...

Many '90s films exposed the dark side of suburban life, challenging the perception of perfection with hidden struggles and sinister secrets. Cinema of the '90s twisted suburban bliss into something malevolent and thought-provoking, delving into complex characters and societal issues. Movies like Clerks, Apt Pupil, and Pleasantville offered unique perspectives on suburban life, exploring existential dread, hidden pasts, and societal repression.

Suburban life was sold as the dream of the traditional nuclear family, but if movies are to be believed, the suburbs were also a hotbed for angst, lust, and murder. Movies of the 1990s were especially interested in exploring themes that uncovered the darker underbelly of the shiny beacon of middle-class life, piercing its pristine veil for its audience of disaffected youth. These films revealed that beneath the surface of the manicured lawns and the white picket fences lay a world of hidden desires and moral decay.

Kevin Smith's The 4:30 Movie trailer is released at Sdcc based on his teenage years at the movies in the 1980s. The film stars a cast including Justin Long, Jason Lee, Diedrich Bader, and Ken Jeong in a coming-of-age story. Set in a real-life theater co-owned by Smith, the R-rated movie promises to deliver a nostalgic and entertaining experience.

The first trailer for Kevin Smith's The 4:30 Movie has been released at San Diego Comic Con. The movie is loosely based on Smith's teenage years of going to the movies with his friends in the 1980s. The featured location is set at the real-life theater Smith attended in his youth and is now a co-owner of. The R-rated coming-of-age movie stars Austin Zajur, Nicholas Cirillo, Reed Northrup, Siena Agudong, Jason Lee, Justin Long, Diedrich Bader, and Ken Jeong.

Originally debuting at Sdcc, Smith now releases the trailer for his upcoming movie.

Actress-turned-filmmaker Devanny Pinn makes her directorial debut with The Black Mass, one of my favorite horror films of the year.

This gruesome and nasty slasher calls to mind serial killer thrillers of the past, including John McNaughton’s masterful Henry, and is now streaming on Screambox.

A true-crime thriller based on events in Florida during the winter of 1978, it unfolds over 24 hours and centers on a serial killer in the lead-up to his ultimate, deranged killing spree.

“Presenting a harrowing and unsettling portrayal of the twisted mind of a notorious murderer, Pinn also explores the devastating consequences of his violent actions on the victims and survivors alike,” FrightFest wrote out of its International Premiere.

Jeremy London (Mallrats) co-stars alongside genre veterans Lisa Wilcox (A Nightmare on Elm Street 4), Susan Lanier (The Hills Have Eyes), Lew Temple (The Devil’s Rejects), Eileen Dietz (The Exorcist), Nicky Whelan (Halloween II), and Kathleen Kinmont...

Kevin Smith released the unseen Shortcom collab with Shannen Doherty in tribute to their friendship. Smith intended to reunite with Doherty in a Mallrats sequel, which unfortunately never came to fruition. The video features Smith and Doherty in starring roles.

Kevin Smith has honored his late Mallrats star Shannen Doherty by releasing a previously unseen Shortcom project the two once collaborated on. Following the breakout success of his debut movie Clerks, Smiths decision to cast Doherty in his 1995 comedy Mallrats would begin a lifelong friendship between the two. Following Dohertys recent passing on July 13, Smith posted a heartfelt tribute to his friend and co-star he fondly referred to as an American icon.

Taking to YouTube to celebrate Dohertys life, Smith releases a clip of a 2013 mini-sitcom pilot filmed for Fox named Stubbs.

Smith introduces the clip by explaining that the 10-minute Shortcom was intended to feature in a scrapped Fox...

Pop culture and entertainment fans have lost a number of icons over the past few days. First was Shelley Duvall on July 11th, followed by Richard Simmons two days later. That day, it was also announced that Shannen Doherty – star of Beverly Hills 90210, Charmed and more – had passed away after a long battle with cancer at just 53. Now, Kevin Smith – who directed Doherty in 1995’s Mallrats – has broken his Silent Bob ways to honor the late actress.

It was no secret that Shannen Doherty held a grudge against Mallrats for the toll it took on her career but she and her director did end up having a good relationship. As such, Smith took to social media following the loss of his star, who was by far the most famous in the cast at that point. In his lengthy post, he wrote, in part: “Long before any other pop culture figure...

Shannen Doherty tragically passed away over the weekend, at the way-too-young age of 53. Doherty was obviously an absolute icon of the 1990s, mostly due to her work as Brenda Walsh on the long-running primetime teen soap Beverly Hills, 90210. Although the less said about the time the show forced her to protest the Vietnam War in 1960s cosplay, the better.

In addition to 90210, those of us who grew up in the ‘90s also knew Doherty as the co-star of Kevin Smith’s notorious flop Mallrats. But without her participation, the film may never have gotten made at all.

Following Doherty’s passing, Smith penned a lengthy Instagram post in tribute to the actress, who he noted was a “true talent” and “single handedly shattered it in the early ‘90s.” Smith also revealed that, prior to his Clerks success, he would routinely watch 90210 each week specifically for Doherty, aka “the girl from Heathers.

Jason Priestley, Jennie Garth, Tori Spelling, Brian Austin Green, Kevin Smith, Rose McGowan, Alyssa Milano, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Olivia Munn and more in Hollywood are mourning the loss of Shannen Doherty.

Doherty, known for her starring roles on Beverly Hills, 90210 and Charmed, died Saturday. She was first diagnosed with breast cancer in March 2015; after treatment and several surgeries, she announced in April 2017 that she was in remission. In February 2020, she tearfully revealed on Good Morning America, “I’m stage 4 — my cancer came back,” then said in June 2023 that cancer had spread to her brain.

“I am absolutely heartbroken over the passing of Shannen Doherty,” Munn wrote in an Instagram Story on Sunday morning. Earlier this year, Munn shared she was a breast cancer survivor, and had undergone a double mastectomy. This weekend, the actress wrote that she had grown close with Doherty, connecting over their shared experience.

“We bonded...

Film and television fans mourned the death of Gen X icon Shannen Doherty this weekend. The 53-year-old star of “Beverly Hills, 90210” and “Mallrats” died following a lengthy and public battle with cancer. The news of her death—during a ludicrous weekend in America which also saw the deaths of Dr. Ruth Westheimer and Richard Simmons, as well as an assassination attempt on Donald Trump, former host of the eight-time Emmy-nominated reality show “The Apprentice”—sparked several reminiscences from those who knew her.

Jason Priestly, who played Doherty’s brother on “90210,” shared a promotional photo of the two of them from their younger years, and added, “she was a force of nature and I will miss her.”

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“90210”’s Jennie Garth also shared some photos from back in the day, and wrote, “We were so often...

Co-stars from Charmed and Beverly Hills, 90210 honored Shannen Doherty after she passed away from breast cancer. Alyssa Milano expressed mourning despite differences, highlighting Doherty's talent and impact. Other co-stars like Carol Potter and Jason Priestley, as well as filmmakers Kevin Smit, and Christopher Landon, also shared their grief.

Actors from the TV shows Charmed and Beverly Hills, 90210 have honored the life of their co-star Shannen Doherty, who died on Saturday, July 13, 2024. The actor passed away following a battle with breast cancer since 2015, having shared her terminal diagnosis back in June 2023. She was best known for her roles as Brenda Walsh on the cast of Beverly Hills, 90210, and as Prue Halliwell in the fantasy drama Charmed. She's starred in plenty of film roles as well, from Heather Duke in the teen comedy Heathers to Maggie Malene in Girls Just Want to Have Fun.

Now, multiple co-stars throughout Doherty's career have...

Shannen Doherty, the actress whose film and television work resulted in some of the most iconic TV characters of the 1990s, has died at the age of 53 after a long battle with cancer.

“It is with a heavy heart that I confirm the passing of actress Shannen Doherty. On Saturday, July 13, she lost her battle with cancer after many years of fighting the disease,” Doherty’s publicist said in a statement to People. “The devoted daughter, sister, aunt and friend was surrounded by her loved ones as well as her dog, Bowie. The family asks for their privacy at this time so they can grieve in peace.”

Born in Memphis in 1971, Doherty first rose to prominence as a child actress playing Jenny Wilder in 18 episodes of “Little House on the Prairie.” She continued to build a resume of guest appearances throughout the 1980s before rising to mainstream prominence with her...

Shannen Doherty refused to slow down.

Late last year, the actress launched a memoir-style podcast, Let’s Be Clear with Shannen Doherty, a vehicle which she used to inspire others. In an interview about it with People, she remained defiant.

“I’m not done with living. I’m not done with loving. I’m not done with creating. I’m not done with hopefully changing things for the better,” she said. “I’m just not — I’m not done.”

Yesterday, her journey came to an end, and her friends in Hollywood took to social media to remember the spirit she showed.

Related: Alyssa Milano Remembers Her ‘Charmed’ Co-Star Shannen Doherty: “The World Is Less Without Her”

Here are some of the early reactions, which include tributes from Doherty’s Beverly Hills, 90210 co-stars Jason Priestley, Brian Austin Green, Jennie Garth, Tori Spelling, Gabrielle Carteris, and Carol Potter.

Priestley called Doherty...