I am way too fond of Kevin Smith for my own good. I just think he’s an absolutely tremendous director, and his films are just so endlessly entertaining. Clerks is the very pinnacle of independent comedy that I love, and every film he did since that has been varying shades of brilliance. Clerks was risky…

I, like many others, remember a time when Ben Affleck was not Batman, or someone constantly in prestige projects. The first time I ever saw Ben Affleck in a movie was when I was much younger, in Jersey Girl (a film that has received a fair share of critical hatred – but I thought it…

After being absolutely bowled over by the brilliance of Clerks a few days ago, I just had to seek out the sequel. Honestly, I wasn’t expecting much – I thought that if Kevin Smith could just capture a fraction of the brilliance from the first film, then the film would be worth it. Needless to…

As someone that frequently defends independent cinema, and have canonized the indie filmmakers that arose in the 1990s, it was always my secret shame that I had never seen Clerks, the film that launched Kevin Smith to auteur fame. It isn’t that I found the story uninteresting – in fact, the story fits right into…