Max Reload and the Nether Blasters first published by VODzilla.co Meet Max Jenkins (Tom Plumley) – both a young orphaned Ferris Bueller-lookalike who lives in smalltown Middletown with his war veteran grandfather (Martin Kove), and a talented coder whose inability to work with others has held him back from getting the sort of work in…
Short Jay and Silent Bob Reboot review originally intended for Sight & Sound, although I don’t believe it was published in the end Review: Stoner buddies Jay (Jason Mewes) and Silent Bob (Kevin Smith) are what unifies Smith’s seven-film View Askewniverse – nine films if you count Steve Stark’s Smith-written animated feature Jay & Silent…
Madness in the Method first published by SciFiNow Jason Mewes has a problem: known almost exclusively for playing Jay to Kevin Smith’s Silent Bob in Clerks (1994) and other Smith films, he has been doomed as an actor always to play the stoner sidekick, never the star. In his directorial debut Madness In The Method…
Like the creature it stitches together from monster movies and online inanity, Kevin Smith’s Tusk is very much a film of two halves. In its first section, as raconteur and adventurer Howard Howe (Michael Parks) carefully lays and baits a trap in darkest Manitoba for narcissistic, two-timing celebrity podcaster Wallace Bryton (Justin Long), cruel humour and tension build…
Review first appeared in Sight & Sound, October 2011 Review: While Simon Rumley’s first three low-budget features Strong Language (2000), The Truth Game (2001) and Club Le Monde (2002) were dialogue-driven comedy dramas that earned comparisons to Eric Rohmer and Richard Linklater from the press, his fourth film marked a radical stylistic departure for the…
Review first appeared in Sight & Sound, November 2011 Synopsis: Responding to an on-line invitation to group sex with an older woman, students Travis, Billy-Ray and Jarod head out one night to Cooper’s Dell, en route sideswiping a parked car in which Sheriff Wynan is being fellated. Wynan sends Deputy Pete after the boys’ car….