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Blu-ray Review: Chasing Amy
30 November 2009 12:18 AM, PST | BuzzFocus.com | See recent BuzzFocus.com news »
While in retrospect people remember the production story of Clerks and see it as the film that catapulted Kevin Smith’s career, Mallrats put that blossoming career in question after it became a critical and monetary failure when it first hit theaters. It wasn’t until the success Smith found with Chasing Amy that he had secured his place as a notable writer/director in the film industry. Chasing Amy, Smith’s straight-man exploration of a gay world and an early entry in the “bromance” category, holds up incredibly well roughly one decade after its initial release. Holden McNeil (Ben Affleck) and Banky Edwards (Jason Lee) have a hit comic series together called Bluntman and Chronic. Then Holden meets a fellow writer, Alyssa Jones (Joey Lauren Adams), and falls for her. The only thing is she’s a lesbian, yet Holden doesn’t stop and Banky feels their friendship is threatened. »
- Bill Jones
Blu-ray review: Kevin Smith 3-Movie Collection (Clerks, Chasing Amy, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back)
24 November 2009 12:48 PM, PST | ReelLoop.com | See recent Reel Loop news »
The newly released Kevin Smith three-movie box set contains the popular director’s three most popular films in beautiful Blu-ray quality. Containing his debut Clerks, along with Chasing Amy and Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back, Smith’s new box set captures a lot of crap you missed the first time around.
Kevin Smith is usually a big hit with internet writers thanks in part to his humble origin, legendary (or hyped, depending on who you ask) beginnings and his rather soft physique. He also represents the film/comic book/video game subculture, which has made serious strides to becoming a mainstream, high covered phenomenon on the verge of losing its trademark and sarcasm.
Or he just makes funny movies.
The legend of Kevin Smith is a classic American success story. A film school reject, Smith decided to break away from schools, books and teacher’s dirty looks and make his »
- Erik Buckman
Blu-Ray Review: Beloved Kevin Smith Films Released in High Definition
23 November 2009 3:38 PM, PST | HollywoodChicago.com | See recent HollywoodChicago.com news »
Chicago – Very few filmmakers provoke the same kind of passionate adoration as the sometimes-great Kevin Smith, a man who has such a following that he can sell out large theaters filled with people who merely want to ask him questions for hours. Smith is a charismatic, interesting, clever filmmaker and his best work reflect his gregarious personality. Three of his best are captured in “The Kevin Smith Collection,” including two films with all-new Blu-Ray material.
Blu-Ray Rating: 4.0/5.0
If you were designing the Kevin Smith set and could only pick three films, what would you choose? The man has directed eight full-length feature films and we can probably cut “Jersey Girl” from consideration from the beginning, leaving seven to choose from. Personally, I would go with three different periods of his work and choose “Clerks,” “Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back,” and “Zack and Miri Make a Porno,” but then that »
- adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
New 'Space Invader' Movie Has Nothing To Do With The Game -- And Neither Do These Five Made Up Films
18 November 2009 3:00 PM, PST | MTV Movies Blog | See recent MTV Movies Blog news »
I've got good news and bad news, video game fans. The good news is that a "Space Invader" film is on the way. The bad news is that it has no connection whatsoever to the classic arcade game.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, "Iron Man 2" screenwriter Justin Theroux is set to pen "Space Invader," Fox's astronaut romantic comedy that has nothing to do with shooting down wave after wave of aggressive alien aircrafts via joystick and button mashing. Instead, "Space Invader" focuses on a man who goes to space after suspecting that his astronaut girlfriend is cheating on him with a fellow astronaut.
Don't get me wrong, this "Space Invader" premise is pretty funny, and Will Arnett's attachment to the lead role makes it even funnier. Still, why throw away the "Space Invaders" name on a romantic comedy, rather than reserving it for a future video game adaptation? »
- Josh Wigler
Kevin Smith 3-Movie Collection (Clerks, Chasing Amy, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back) – Blu-ray
18 November 2009 11:54 AM, PST | The Scorecard Review | See recent Scorecard Review news »
Blu-ray Review
Kevin Smith 3-Movie Collection (Clerks, Chasing Amy, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back)
Directed by: Kevin Smith
Rating: R
Due Out: November 17, 2009
Who’S It For? With the fan-based nature of his movies, if you like these titles from writer/director Kevin Smith, then you probably own them already. It’s really up to you if you want to shell out ninety dollars to have their latest incarnation, though none of them really demand a high definition presentation except for maybe the more Hollywood Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back. The documentaries about each movie are fun watches, but perhaps you should put this on your wish list before your immediate shopping list.
Movies:
Kevin Smith embraces the suckage of work by finding the amusing nature of the weird sh*t that can go on during one shift. Slaving away at a beat down convenience store on »
- Nick Allen
Review: 'Kevin Smith 3-Movie Collection' on Blu-ray
17 November 2009 2:46 PM, PST | Comicmix.com | See recent Comicmix news »
You have to admire Kevin Smith. Growing up in New Jersey, he found himself a circle of likeminded friends who took his scripts and performed them in a sort of comedy revue that wowed audiences in Red Bank. Inspired, he went on to Vancouver and film school where he met his producing muse, Scott Mosier. Back home, they scraped together $27,500, recruited Smith’s friends and shot the semi-autobiographical Clerks. The black and white film, mostly a series of vignettes tied together by the two leads, wowed audiences and became a cult hit.
From there, Smith got hired by Universal to make a second film, the $5 million Mallrats but Smith and the studio system clashed and the result was a critical and commercial dud. Still, Smith used many of his friends and made new ones, casting with a keen eye towards nascent (and cheap) talent. He also found a girlfriend, Joey Lauren Adams, »
- Robert Greenberger
Blu-ray Review: The Kevin Smith Collection
17 November 2009 2:00 AM, PST | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »
I am an unashamed Kevin Smith fan, and primarily of his earlier, less mature work. If there's such a thing as quality dick and fart joke movies, I would say Kevin's pre-Jersey Girl films fit the description. While I wasn't a big fan of either Clerks 2 or Zack and Miri Make a Porno, films such as Clerks, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, Mallrats and Dogma are personal comedic favorites of mine and Miramax's Kevin Smith Blu-ray collection brings two of those along with what may be Smith's most respected film, Chasing Amy, home in a tidy little package.
To begin, the collection includes the first ever Blu-ray releases of Clerks and Chasing Amy as well as the previously released Blu-ray edition of Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back. If you already own the Jay and Silent Bob Blu-ray this is the exact same thing with the included audio commentary, »
- Brad Brevet
Three Kevin Smith Films Come To Blu-ray
16 November 2009 9:50 PM, PST | icelebz.com | See recent iCelebz news »
The Kevin Smith Collection is currently available on Blu-ray Hi-Def.
The Kevin Smith Collection, released today, is a box set containing three of the filmmaker's best-loved movies: "Clerks," "Chasing Amy" and "Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back." The collection contains all new features for the films, in addition to the transfer of the content to a high definition digital format.
"Clerks," Smith's first foray into the film world, follows a day in the life of New Jersey convenience store worker Dante (Brian O'Halloran) and his foul-mouthed best friend, Randal (Jeff Anderson), a video rental clerk. The low budget, black and white 1994 feature became a hit at film festivals such as Cannes and Sundance, launching the careers of writer/director Smith and producer Scott Mosier and inspiring a later animated series and a 2006 sequel. Among the special features are an all new introduction by Smith; the notorious "Lost Scene"; and Smith and Mosier's film school short, »
Kevin Smith 3 Movie Collection Blu-ray Review - Clerks, Chasing Amy and Jay And Silent Bob Strike Back
16 November 2009 9:01 PM, PST | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »
I remember when Clerks was announced. It was a Sundance favorite and trailered along with Pulp Fiction. Having had some counter experience, and being a Star Wars nerd, Clerks looked like sweet elixir. And I went to see it opening weekend (in a double feature with Stargate), and was in the Kevin Smith. Revisiting his films Clerks, Chasing Amy and Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back on Blu-ray in the Kevin Smith collection is a chance to wrestle with what makes Kevin Smith great and somewhat terrible. My review after the jump.
Clerks is one of those films that - at the time - you wanted to root for. It was a small film from a filmmaker who scrapped together his pocket change and made a film, and the history of films like that which received a theatrical release were always encouraging. Spike Lee, Richard Linklater, etc. Now, now that »
- Andre Dellamorte
[DVD Review] Kevin Smith 3-Movie Collection
16 November 2009 4:00 AM, PST | JustPressPlay.net | See recent JustPressPlay news »
This isn’t the first time a set titled the “[insert name] collection” has debuted with a less than stellar compilation of films attempting to represent a filmmaker or actor’s career. What Miramax did right here was calling it a “3-Movie Collection” thus letting themselves off the hook for not having some of Kevin Smith’s better films. The set includes Clerks, Chasing Amy and Jay and Silent Strike Back which means the collection might not all be the crème de la crème de Smith, but it certainly lets you see a wide range of the man’s talents as a director. However, I think the best way to think of this set is as a sign of his career financially and not necessarily professionally.
With Clerks, Kevin Smith operated on a shoestring budget and cast his friends in the leads after deciding he didn’t have the chops to handle »
- Lex Walker
DVD Playhouse--November 2009
14 November 2009 6:25 PM, PST | The Hollywood Interview | See recent The Hollywood Interview news »
DVD Playhouse—November 2009
By
Watchmen—The Ultimate Cut (Warner Bros.) Director Zack Snyder’s film of Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ landmark graphic novel is as worthy an adaptation of a great book that has ever been filmed. In an alternative version of the year 1985, Richard Nixon is serving his third term as President and super heroes have been outlawed by a congressional act, in spite of the fact that two of the most high-profile “masks,” Dr. Manhattan (Billy Cruddup) and The Comedian (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) helped the U.S. win the Vietnam War. When The Comedian is found murdered, many former heroes become concerned that a conspiracy is afoot to assassinate retired costumed crime fighters. Former masks Nite Owl (Patrick Wilson), Silk Spectre (Malin Akerman) and still-operating Rorschach (Jackie Earle Haley, in an Oscar-worthy turn) launch an investigation of their own, all while the Pentagon’s “Doomsday »
- The Hollywood Interview.com
Review: Trucker
10 October 2009 7:02 AM, PDT | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »
By Erik Davis, reprinted from the Tribeca Film Festival 4/26/08
I was completely honest with actress Michelle Monaghan yesterday when I told her, right at the beginning of a one-on-one interview, that I'd been waiting a long time to watch her come alive in a role. In her relatively short career, Monaghan has already racked up quite the resume -- appearing in films like Mission Impossible III, Gone Baby Gone, The Bourne Supremacy, The Heartbreak Kid and Made of Honor. She's got a great, girl-next-door quality about her, but is she memorable? The good news here is that Monaghan finally delivered the sort of performance I've known was trapped somewhere inside her, hidden behind a variety of big, flashy Hollywood films. Make no mistake, this is her film. She owns it. But is that enough to convince you to see it?
In Trucker, she plays Diane, a female truck driver with »
- Cinematical staff
'Trucker': Heart-Shaped Box, By Kurt Loder
9 October 2009 6:58 AM, PDT | MTV Movie News | See recent MTV Movie News news »
Michelle Monaghan breaks through into Oscar territory.
Michelle Monaghan and Jimmy Bennet in "Trucker"
Photo: Plum Pictures
After eight years of solid supporting work, and an especially memorable co-starring turn opposite Casey Affleck in the 2007 "Gone Baby Gone," Michelle Monaghan has finally been put at the center of a movie, where she belongs. She doesn't leap at the role — the picture is too modestly scaled to withstand a full-glow starburst — but she inhabits it completely.
In "Trucker," Monaghan plays Diane Ford, who makes her way in life as a long-distance truck driver. ("That's a weird job for a woman," someone tells her. "Why?" she asks.) Diane is serious about her work; it's a good fit for her no-strings lifestyle. Her sexual encounters are strictly one-nighters, over as quickly as she can hurry back into her jeans. Her house in a shabby California desert town is almost paid off, and between jobs hauling freight, »
Vaughn 'Psyched' About Marriage
8 October 2009 9:01 AM, PDT | WENN | See recent WENN news »
Vince Vaughn is "psyched" about losing his status as one of Hollywood's most eligible bachelors, insisting he's ready to marry fiancee Kyla Webber.
After years of singledom, punctuated by romances with Jennifer Aniston and Joey Lauren Adams, Vaughn has settled down with Canadian real estate agent Webber, who he proposed to on Valentine's Day.
Vaughn turns 40 next year and insists he's finally ready for change.
He says, "I met her through a friend, which was nice. And she's a civilian, which is good.
"I'm excited. It's all going to change. I'm psyched about it." »
Tribeca Takes:[p]James Mottern on Trucker
5 October 2009 9:30 AM, PDT | TribecaFilm.com | See recent Tribeca Film news »
James Mottern's film Trucker (Tff 2008) will be released in select cities this Friday. A truly independent film, Trucker was shot in just 19 days, and stars Michelle Monaghan, Benjamin Bratt, Joey Lauren Adams, and Nathan Fillion. Tribeca Film asked Mottern to give us his take on the state of independent film today. James Mottern: Filmmaking the Hard Way When you make an independent film, you wonder if anyone will go and see it. You wonder if anyone will like it. And people tell you why people will or won't go see it, and people tell you why people will or won't like it. They also tell you there is no money, no time, a bad economy, fewer distributors; they tell you how you should make your film so more people will go see it, or more people will like it; they tell you certain movies cannot be made anymore »
Just Like That Monaghan's a Truckin' Into the Oscar Race
25 August 2009 1:43 AM, PDT | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »
Photo: Monterey Media Last night a press release arrived in what appears to be most everyone's inbox announcing the October 9 limited release of Monterey Media's Trucker starring Michelle Monaghan (Mission: Impossible III, Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang) as Diane Ford, a young truck driver, who leads a carefree life of long-haul trucking, one night stands and all-night drinking until the evening her estranged 11-year-old son shows up at her door. Already Awards Daily and In Contention have grasped onto the film's potential to bring Monaghan an Oscar nomination as even the press release that was sent out says the October release puts "it right into the middle of the Fall awards season." Written and directed by James Mottern, the film co-stars Nathan Fillion, Benjamin Bratt, Jimmy Bennett and Joey Lauren Adams. Is it possible this film could come out of nowhere and earn a nomination? Your damn right it is. »
- Brad Brevet
Joey Lauren Adams falls for Buck on "United States of Tara"
5 August 2009 1:00 PM, PDT | AfterEllen.com | See recent AfterEllen.com news »
Kevin Smith's Chasing Amy was one of the first "lesbian" movies I had ever seen. It was 1997, when Ben Affleck was Jennifer-less and Jason Lee had yet to be named Earl. And Joey Lauren Adams was an actress with a sexy, raspy voice who was not afraid to play gay on screen.
Even though she falls for Affleck in the film, she ends up back with a woman, so it's not a terrible portrait of lesbianism or, perhaps, bisexuality. And now Adams will have another chance at sexual ambiguity on Showtime's United States of Tara, playing a woman who falls for Buck, Tara's male alter-ego.
Wow, gender bending can be so confusing.
When Tara (Toni Collette) is Buck, she's a man's man who hunts, drinks, swears and misogynist. On the second season of the series, Buck will end up meeting bartender Pammy (Adams), who EW reports is "warm and »
- Trish Bendix
Channel Surfing: Monaghan Gets "Lost" for Three Episodes, Joey Lauren Adams Falls for "Tara," "Ugly" Betty's New Look Focus-Grouped, and More
31 July 2009 7:13 AM, PDT | Televisionary | See recent Televisionary news »
Welcome to your Friday morning television briefing. E! Online's Watch with Kristin is reporting that Dominic Monaghan will reprise his role as rocker Charlie Pace on ABC's Lost next season for three episodes. "Sources tell us exclusively that, yes, Dom's deal to reappear on Lost is done and that the original castmember is set to appear in three episodes in Season Six," writes Jennifer Godwin. "No word yet on the answer to the big question: Is Charlie alive? We'll have to wait until Lost returns to ABC in January 2010 to find out." (E! Online's Watch with Kristin) Joey Lauren Adams (Party Down) has joined the cast of Showtime's United States of Tara for the series' second season. Adams will play Pammy, a barmaid who "has a history of picking the wrong guys," writes Entertainment Weekly's Michael Ausiello. "Her luck changes the day she meets 'Buck' and falls head over heels in love. »
- Jace
'United States of Tara' exclusive: Joey Lauren Adams falls for 'Buck'
30 July 2009 4:24 PM, PDT | EW - Ausiello Files | See recent EW.com - The Ausiello Files news »
Looks like love is in the air for Toni Collette's male alter on United States of Tara. Sources confirm to me exclusively that Joey Lauren Adams (Chasing Amy) is joining the Showtime comedy's season 2 cast as Pammy, a funny and warm barmaid who has a history of picking the wrong guys. Her luck changes the day she meets "Buck" and falls head over heels in love. Adams is on board for at least three episodes. Tara's 12-episode second season debuts in early 2010. »
- Michael Ausiello
Kevin Smith Gets A Little Help From Jason Lee For His ‘Dicks’
29 June 2009 1:29 PM, PDT | FilmSchoolRejects.com | See recent FilmSchoolRejects news »
With all the talk about how Kevin Smith is finally directing someone else's writing and how that might possibly be a 1) disaster or b) a resurgence of energy that shows another set of directing skills besides filming Jason Mewes saying "snootch to the nootch," there's been a surprising lack of talk surrounding his cast. Probably because he thinned out his regulars for Zack and Miri Make a Porno, although he kept in Jason Mewes thrusting into Katie Morgan while desperately resisting the urge to say "snootch to the nootch." Now, Smith is getting some familiar help from an old friend for his upcoming A Couple of Dicks. According to /film, Smith announced on Kevin Pollak's Live Show that Jason Lee would be joining the cast. Thankfully, someone out there is listening to Kevin Pollak. This is no doubt great news for Smith fans who love seeing his same players in every film. I »
- Dr. Cole Abaius
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