REVIEW: Tug [2013]
“I peed? In the bed?” I guess this is what filmmaking becoming easier and cheaper does for all holding the dream and passion to create. It goes back to Kevin Smith‘s Clerks proving that the depiction...
View ArticleTIFF13 REVIEW: 2013 Short Cuts Canada Programmes
Programme 1 A far cry from the documentary short Joda—a visual letter to Jafar Panahi—that was included in the TIFF Short Cuts Canada Programme last year, graphic designer turned filmmaker Theodore...
View ArticleREVIEW: Dogma [1999]
“You can’t be anal retentive if you don’t have an anus” Due to an overly self-deprecating humor, writer/director Kevin Smith will always be the first to say he lacks true “talent” as a filmmaker. From...
View ArticleToronto International Film Festival 2014 Preview
We may have two consistent film festivals here in town showcasing small releases and restored classics, but you might not realize how close we are to one of the biggest in the world. Most “in the know”...
View ArticlePosterized Propaganda September 2014: ‘The Zero Theorem,’ ‘The Boxtrolls’,...
“Don’t Judge a Book by Its Cover” is a proverb whose simple existence proves the fact impressionable souls will do so without fail. This monthly column focuses on the film industry’s willingness to...
View ArticleREVIEW: 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...
View ArticleWiig, Gyllenhaal, and Monster Love at the 2014 Toronto International Film...
Friends and family think me crazy for driving up the QEW so I can sit in darkened theaters for around thirty of a total eighty-hours in Toronto, but I wouldn’t spend my early September days any other...
View ArticleREVIEW: Yoga Hosers [2016]
“It looks like a Vancouver hockey riot in here” You can’t fault Kevin Smith for having his heart in the right place. We can only blame his financiers for letting this True North trilogy crusade...
View ArticleREVIEW: Clerks [1994]
“I’m not even supposed to be here today!” Whether you enjoy Kevin Smith‘s Clerks or not, you can’t deny it’s place in cinematic history as a doorway towards a new landscape of micro-budgeted,...
View ArticleREVIEW: Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back [2001]
“They don’t deserve their own movie” It’s easy to forget that Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back was supposed to be the View Askewniverse’s final chapter. Writer/director Kevin Smith had finally decided to...
View ArticleREVIEW: Jay and Silent Bob Reboot [2019]
“Hollywood … Florida?” A lot happens in eighteen years. Look at Kevin Smith. While his daughter was born two years prior to Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, fatherhood had only begun. Then he moved away...
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