Exclusive: Gina Carano has signed with Straightwire Entertainment Group for management.
Carano began her career as a mixed martial artist who made her feature film debut in Steven Soderbergh’s action film Haywire in 2011. She co-starred alongside Antonio Banderas, Micheal Douglas, Michael Fassbender and Channing Tatum in the role of Mallory Kane, a black ops agent who is betrayed by her employers and targeted for assassination in a conspiracy. Her performance earned her a Critics Choice Award nomination for Best Actress in a Drama.
She followed that up with Fast & Furious 6 directed by Justin Lin, where she portrayed Dss agent Riley Hicks and Deadpool alongside Ryan Reynolds in 2016.
On the TV side, Carano starred in the Lucasfilm Star Wars spinoff TV series The Mandalorian where she played bounty hunter Cara Dune for two seasons.
In early 2021, Lucasfilm said there were no plans for Carano to...
Carano began her career as a mixed martial artist who made her feature film debut in Steven Soderbergh’s action film Haywire in 2011. She co-starred alongside Antonio Banderas, Micheal Douglas, Michael Fassbender and Channing Tatum in the role of Mallory Kane, a black ops agent who is betrayed by her employers and targeted for assassination in a conspiracy. Her performance earned her a Critics Choice Award nomination for Best Actress in a Drama.
She followed that up with Fast & Furious 6 directed by Justin Lin, where she portrayed Dss agent Riley Hicks and Deadpool alongside Ryan Reynolds in 2016.
On the TV side, Carano starred in the Lucasfilm Star Wars spinoff TV series The Mandalorian where she played bounty hunter Cara Dune for two seasons.
In early 2021, Lucasfilm said there were no plans for Carano to...
- 3/12/2024
- by Rosy Cordero
- Deadline Film + TV
There was a time when Kevin Smith was regarded as being one of the definitive filmmakers of Generation X. His feature directing debut on the shoestring-budgeted 1994 indie hit "Clerks" suggested Smith not only had a firm understanding of the slacker mentality that afflicted so many people in his age bracket, but he was also shrewd enough to be critical of it. The film centers on disgruntled Quick Stop Groceries clerk Dante Hicks (Brian O'Halloran) and those in his immediate vicinity, including his equally-cynical, unmotivated best friend Randal Graves (Jeff Anderson) and the off-beat drug dealers that loiter outside the store: loud-mouthed horny miscreant Jay (Jason Mewes) and his reserved yet secretly wise companion Silent Bob (Smith). As colorful as these characters were, they also felt like real people you could imagine Smith knew growing up on his home turf of New Jersey.
At first, Smith retained this acerbic wit and...
At first, Smith retained this acerbic wit and...
- 1/28/2024
- by Sandy Schaefer
- Slash Film
Director Kevin Smith started the new year big with a big announcement. Smith announced through his social media pages that a new Jay and Silent Bob movie is coming very soon. In 2024 Kevin Smith’s first feature film #Clerks turns thirty. To celebrate the thirtieth anniversary, Smith was inspired to start writing another film.
Smith has revealed in his post a little of the storyline of the new film. The film will follow the two stoners as they observe an escalating war in the Central Jersey legal weed business. Outside of the film news, Kevin Smith also revealed that he and his lifelong friend Jason Mewes (Jay) will be celebrating throughout the year the characters that have helped make them cultural and stoner icons. Both Kevin Smith and Jason Mewes will be celebrating throughout the year. Be sure to check out their social media pages for special announcements and signings.
Smith has revealed in his post a little of the storyline of the new film. The film will follow the two stoners as they observe an escalating war in the Central Jersey legal weed business. Outside of the film news, Kevin Smith also revealed that he and his lifelong friend Jason Mewes (Jay) will be celebrating throughout the year the characters that have helped make them cultural and stoner icons. Both Kevin Smith and Jason Mewes will be celebrating throughout the year. Be sure to check out their social media pages for special announcements and signings.
- 1/5/2024
- by Stephen Nepa
- Age of the Nerd
Last month, Kevin Smith revealed that he “lost a bet” to his frequent collaborator Jason Mewes and as a result had started writing the script for a third Jay and Silent Bob movie (following Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back and Jay and Silent Bob Reboot) – but while Reboot was very similar to Strike Back, this time he’s working to keep the sequel unpredictable. So we won’t be seeing Jay and Silent Bob hitting the road to stop the production of a Bluntman and Chronic movie again. This one will have a different set-up – and Smith has given an idea of what the plot will be in a new social media post! He also promised that, unlike Clerks III, this movie won’t be killing off any beloved characters.
Smith wrote, “2024 marks the 30th anniversary of my first film Clerks – which means that it’s also the 30th...
Smith wrote, “2024 marks the 30th anniversary of my first film Clerks – which means that it’s also the 30th...
- 1/3/2024
- by Cody Hamman
- JoBlo.com
Earlier this month, Kevin Smith revealed that he “lost a bet” to his frequent collaborator Jason Mewes and as a result had started writing the script for a third Jay and Silent Bob movie (following Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back and Jay and Silent Bob Reboot). On the latest episode of the Fatman Beyond podcast he hosts alongside writer Marc Bernardin, Smith talked a bit more about the movie we’ll call Jay and Silent Bob 3 for now, saying that he’s working to take the script in unpredictable directions. He also said this Jay and Silent Bob movie might be the next film he makes!
Smith told Bernardin and the fans in attendance, “I’ve been working on not just finishing up (The 4:30 Movie), but working on the next one. I’m writing – I didn’t think I would do it for a long time, but I...
Smith told Bernardin and the fans in attendance, “I’ve been working on not just finishing up (The 4:30 Movie), but working on the next one. I’m writing – I didn’t think I would do it for a long time, but I...
- 12/21/2023
- by Cody Hamman
- JoBlo.com
Snoogins! Kevin Smith says he’s bringing Jay and Silent Bob back for another movie! Do you know what that means? More stoner absurdity, crude humor, and convenience store loitering! Let’s go!
“Right now as we speak, I’m writing another Jay and Silent Bob movie,” Smith told PopCulture.com. The 53-year-old Swiss army knife of cinematic talent says he lost a bet to his friend and co-star Jason Mewes, and now the dynamic duo is poised to roll more blunts, drink beers, and groove to Morris Day and the Time! “For me and Jay, we always kind of have fun doing those and stuff, so I lost a bet with him. And so I’m writing another Jay and Bob movie,” said Smith.
PopCulture.com caught up with Smith at L.A. Comic Con, where the filmmaker moderated a panel called The Art of Hope: Cancer and Comics,...
“Right now as we speak, I’m writing another Jay and Silent Bob movie,” Smith told PopCulture.com. The 53-year-old Swiss army knife of cinematic talent says he lost a bet to his friend and co-star Jason Mewes, and now the dynamic duo is poised to roll more blunts, drink beers, and groove to Morris Day and the Time! “For me and Jay, we always kind of have fun doing those and stuff, so I lost a bet with him. And so I’m writing another Jay and Bob movie,” said Smith.
PopCulture.com caught up with Smith at L.A. Comic Con, where the filmmaker moderated a panel called The Art of Hope: Cancer and Comics,...
- 12/7/2023
- by Steve Seigh
- JoBlo.com
Four years after the characters headlined Jay & Silent Bob: Reboot, Kevin Smith is plotting the next chapter for the stoner duo.
Filmmaker Kevin Smith has revealed that he’s working on another film featuring the characters Jay & Silent Bob, the latter of which he also plays onscreen.
The two lovable stoners have featured in Smith’s films ever since the director made his filmmaking debut with Clerks in 1994. The duo’s most recent headlining film came four years ago in the form of Jay & Silent Bob: Reboot.
He did a podcast special with us about that very film, here.
Smith has made a habit in recent years of returning to his stable of ‘View Askewniverse’ characters.
Randall and Dante, the lead characters from Clerks made a trilogy-capping appearance in Clerks III in 2022 whilst Smith has also reportedly written a sequel to 1997’s Mallrats. That project, tentatively titled Twilight Of the Mallrats...
Filmmaker Kevin Smith has revealed that he’s working on another film featuring the characters Jay & Silent Bob, the latter of which he also plays onscreen.
The two lovable stoners have featured in Smith’s films ever since the director made his filmmaking debut with Clerks in 1994. The duo’s most recent headlining film came four years ago in the form of Jay & Silent Bob: Reboot.
He did a podcast special with us about that very film, here.
Smith has made a habit in recent years of returning to his stable of ‘View Askewniverse’ characters.
Randall and Dante, the lead characters from Clerks made a trilogy-capping appearance in Clerks III in 2022 whilst Smith has also reportedly written a sequel to 1997’s Mallrats. That project, tentatively titled Twilight Of the Mallrats...
- 12/7/2023
- by Dan Cooper
- Film Stories
Program Description
Return to the Quick Stop for this hilarity-filled collection of Kevin Smith’s beloved Clerks movies. This specially designed Premium Box Collection includes a set of Clerks-themed clings that fans can use to customize their set. Clerks will be available for the suggested retail price of $129.99.
Official Synopsis
They are the overworked, underpaid, and hardly working…they are clerks! For the first time ever, all three of Kevin Smith’s Clerks films are included on Blu-rayTM + Digital in one limited-edition Premium Box Set, available exclusively on Amazon. This one-of-a-kind package is a slacker’s dream come true, featuring a 3D miniature of the iconic Quick Stop and Rst Video storefronts and a working VHS slot, for safe storage of the discs without running up pesky late fees. Also, be sure to vandalize the rental-return “wall” with the cling stickers included in the box, featuring in-world business logos and jokes from the franchise.
Return to the Quick Stop for this hilarity-filled collection of Kevin Smith’s beloved Clerks movies. This specially designed Premium Box Collection includes a set of Clerks-themed clings that fans can use to customize their set. Clerks will be available for the suggested retail price of $129.99.
Official Synopsis
They are the overworked, underpaid, and hardly working…they are clerks! For the first time ever, all three of Kevin Smith’s Clerks films are included on Blu-rayTM + Digital in one limited-edition Premium Box Set, available exclusively on Amazon. This one-of-a-kind package is a slacker’s dream come true, featuring a 3D miniature of the iconic Quick Stop and Rst Video storefronts and a working VHS slot, for safe storage of the discs without running up pesky late fees. Also, be sure to vandalize the rental-return “wall” with the cling stickers included in the box, featuring in-world business logos and jokes from the franchise.
- 11/8/2023
- by ComicMix Staff
- Comicmix.com
We have a contender for most adorable video of the year: Ozzy Osbourne’s 1-year-old granddaughter Maple repeatedly saying “Papa” and pointing to the screen as she watches the metal legend perform “Crazy Train” on TV.
The video was posted by Maple’s dad, Jack Osbourne, who is seen sitting with his baby daughter as she instantly recognizes her grandpa in concert video playing on the television.
Maple’s reaction is priceless, as she keeps saying “Papa” while she points to the TV and pounds on the coffee table in pure delight. Jack, who also is all smiles as he watches his daughter, captioned the video, “Maple thinks she’s getting a private performance from Papa.”
A few celebs gushed over Maple in the comments, with Workaholics actor Adam Devine writing, “Incredible! Hahaha,” and Clerks star Jay Mewes remarking, “So cute!” Even death metal pioneers Possessed were overcome with the cuteness,...
The video was posted by Maple’s dad, Jack Osbourne, who is seen sitting with his baby daughter as she instantly recognizes her grandpa in concert video playing on the television.
Maple’s reaction is priceless, as she keeps saying “Papa” while she points to the TV and pounds on the coffee table in pure delight. Jack, who also is all smiles as he watches his daughter, captioned the video, “Maple thinks she’s getting a private performance from Papa.”
A few celebs gushed over Maple in the comments, with Workaholics actor Adam Devine writing, “Incredible! Hahaha,” and Clerks star Jay Mewes remarking, “So cute!” Even death metal pioneers Possessed were overcome with the cuteness,...
- 11/6/2023
- by Spencer Kaufman
- Consequence - Music
Jamie Kennedy gets completely freaked out when a voice comes through on the ghost box on Jack Osbourne’s Night of Terror. The one-minute clip shows Kennedy and Jason Mewes joining Jack Osbourne for the “Ashmore Estates” episode airing on Sunday, October 22, 2023 at 9pm Et/Pt on Travel Channel.
“Jason Mewes and Jamie Kennedy join Jack at Illinois’ Ashmore Estates for a crash course in paranormal investigating,” reads the Travel Channel’s synopsis. “This former poor farm turned psychiatric ward holds many dark secrets, some of which are rumored to still be six feet under…”
The short season will conclude on October 29, 2023 with the two-hour “Virginia City, Nevada” episode. The finale will feature the Osbourne family – Ozzy, Sharon, Jack, and Kelly – and finds Jack and Kelly investigating Piper’s Opera House and the Washoe Club, “two paranormal hot spots that may hold the key to understanding this Wild West town’s dark energies.
“Jason Mewes and Jamie Kennedy join Jack at Illinois’ Ashmore Estates for a crash course in paranormal investigating,” reads the Travel Channel’s synopsis. “This former poor farm turned psychiatric ward holds many dark secrets, some of which are rumored to still be six feet under…”
The short season will conclude on October 29, 2023 with the two-hour “Virginia City, Nevada” episode. The finale will feature the Osbourne family – Ozzy, Sharon, Jack, and Kelly – and finds Jack and Kelly investigating Piper’s Opera House and the Washoe Club, “two paranormal hot spots that may hold the key to understanding this Wild West town’s dark energies.
- 10/19/2023
- by Rebecca Murray
- Showbiz Junkies
This Sunday, October 22, 2023, prepare for a thrilling night on Travel Channel with “Jack Osbourne’s Night of Terror: UFOs.” In this captivating show, Jack Osbourne, alongside his friends Jason Mewes and Jamie Kennedy, delves into the mysterious world of UFOs.
Their journey takes them to the Utah’s Uinta Basin, a place with numerous reports of unexplained aerial phenomena. The trio embarks on an investigation to uncover the truth behind these reports. They aim to separate fact from fiction, seeking evidence of extraterrestrial encounters.
This episode offers an engaging and suspenseful look into the unknown, as Jack Osbourne and his crew explore the enigmatic world of UFOs. Viewers will join them on their quest for answers and perhaps find themselves pondering the mysteries of the universe. Tune in at 8:00 Pm for a night of suspense and adventure on Travel Channel.
Release Date & Time: 8:00 Pm Sunday 22 October 2023 on Travel
Jack...
Their journey takes them to the Utah’s Uinta Basin, a place with numerous reports of unexplained aerial phenomena. The trio embarks on an investigation to uncover the truth behind these reports. They aim to separate fact from fiction, seeking evidence of extraterrestrial encounters.
This episode offers an engaging and suspenseful look into the unknown, as Jack Osbourne and his crew explore the enigmatic world of UFOs. Viewers will join them on their quest for answers and perhaps find themselves pondering the mysteries of the universe. Tune in at 8:00 Pm for a night of suspense and adventure on Travel Channel.
Release Date & Time: 8:00 Pm Sunday 22 October 2023 on Travel
Jack...
- 10/15/2023
- by Jules Byrd
- TV Everyday
On Sunday, October 22, 2023, at 10:00 Pm, Travel Channel presents a spine-tingling episode of “Jack Osbourne’s Night of Terror.” In this episode, titled “Ashmore Estates,” Jack Osbourne is joined by Jason Mewes and Jamie Kennedy for an intense ghost-hunting experience.
The trio ventures to Ashmore Estates in Illinois, a former poor farm that was later used as a psychiatric ward. This foreboding location carries a dark history, with rumors of buried secrets, both figurative and, some say, quite literal.
The team’s mission is to explore the eerie premises, searching for signs of the supernatural and uncovering the mysteries that have shrouded Ashmore Estates for years. It’s an ultimate crash course in ghost hunting, as they use various tools and techniques to communicate with the other side.
For those who crave the thrill of the unknown and have a fascination with the paranormal, this episode of “Jack Osbourne’s...
The trio ventures to Ashmore Estates in Illinois, a former poor farm that was later used as a psychiatric ward. This foreboding location carries a dark history, with rumors of buried secrets, both figurative and, some say, quite literal.
The team’s mission is to explore the eerie premises, searching for signs of the supernatural and uncovering the mysteries that have shrouded Ashmore Estates for years. It’s an ultimate crash course in ghost hunting, as they use various tools and techniques to communicate with the other side.
For those who crave the thrill of the unknown and have a fascination with the paranormal, this episode of “Jack Osbourne’s...
- 10/15/2023
- by Jules Byrd
- TV Everyday
Kelly Osbourne gets freaked out after spotting a humanoid figure between her and Jack in the October 15, 2023 episode of Jack Osbourne’s Night of Terror. The minute-and-a-half clip from the upcoming episode shows Jack and Kelly exploring a prison block, with something appearing on camera after Jack moves through the hallway.
Travel Channel’s “Nevada State Prison” description reads: “With its history of violence and mayhem, will this abandoned penitentiary torment the siblings, making them succumb to its dark past, or release them unscathed?”
New episodes air on Sundays at 9pm Et/Pt on Travel Channel.
Upcoming Episodes:
“Ashmore Estates” – Premieres Sunday, October 22 at 10pm Et/Pt
Jason Mewes and Jamie Kennedy join Jack at Illinois’ Ashmore Estates for a crash course in paranormal investigating. This former poor farm turned psychiatric ward holds many dark secrets, some of which are rumored to still be six feet under…
“Virginia City, Nevada” – 2-Hour Season Finale Premieres Sunday,...
Travel Channel’s “Nevada State Prison” description reads: “With its history of violence and mayhem, will this abandoned penitentiary torment the siblings, making them succumb to its dark past, or release them unscathed?”
New episodes air on Sundays at 9pm Et/Pt on Travel Channel.
Upcoming Episodes:
“Ashmore Estates” – Premieres Sunday, October 22 at 10pm Et/Pt
Jason Mewes and Jamie Kennedy join Jack at Illinois’ Ashmore Estates for a crash course in paranormal investigating. This former poor farm turned psychiatric ward holds many dark secrets, some of which are rumored to still be six feet under…
“Virginia City, Nevada” – 2-Hour Season Finale Premieres Sunday,...
- 10/12/2023
- by Rebecca Murray
- Showbiz Junkies
On Sunday, October 15, 2023, at 8:00 Pm, Travel Channel will broadcast “Jack Osbourne’s Night of Terror: Bigfoot.” In this TV special, friends Jack Osbourne and Jason Mewes embark on an adventurous journey deep into the woods of northern Idaho.
Their mission? To investigate the age-old legend of Bigfoot and determine if this elusive creature is real or simply a myth. As they venture into the wilderness, viewers can expect a thrilling expedition filled with suspense and intrigue.
Jack Osbourne and Jason Mewes take on the challenge with curiosity and a sense of adventure, exploring the terrain and searching for clues that may shed light on the existence of Bigfoot.
“Jack Osbourne’s Night of Terror: Bigfoot” promises an engaging and suspenseful experience as the duo delves into the mystery of one of the most enduring legends in American folklore.
If you’re intrigued by the unknown and have an interest in cryptozoology,...
Their mission? To investigate the age-old legend of Bigfoot and determine if this elusive creature is real or simply a myth. As they venture into the wilderness, viewers can expect a thrilling expedition filled with suspense and intrigue.
Jack Osbourne and Jason Mewes take on the challenge with curiosity and a sense of adventure, exploring the terrain and searching for clues that may shed light on the existence of Bigfoot.
“Jack Osbourne’s Night of Terror: Bigfoot” promises an engaging and suspenseful experience as the duo delves into the mystery of one of the most enduring legends in American folklore.
If you’re intrigued by the unknown and have an interest in cryptozoology,...
- 10/8/2023
- by Jules Byrd
- TV Everyday
Jack Osbourne’s back exploring the paranormal with a new season of Jack Osbourne’s Night of Terror featuring appearances by his mom, dad, and sister, Kelly. Sharon Osbourne joins her son for the new season’s first episode that takes place at the Glen Tavern Inn in Santa Paula, CA and airs on October 1, 2023 on Travel Channel. The episode changes Sharon’s mind about ghosts in a most unexpected and frightening way.
Ozzy Osbourne helps wrap up the season, appearing in the season finale with Sharon, Jack, and Kelly as they visit a haunted town in Nevada. Jack Osbourne will also check out the bizarre paranormal activities in Tinker Swiss Cottage in Rockford, Il., the Nevada State Prison, and Illinois’ Ashmore Estates over the course of the five-episode season.
Jack Osbourne’s Night of Terror Episodes:
Glen Tavern Inn
Premieres Sunday, October 1 at 10pm Et/Pt
In the season premiere,...
Ozzy Osbourne helps wrap up the season, appearing in the season finale with Sharon, Jack, and Kelly as they visit a haunted town in Nevada. Jack Osbourne will also check out the bizarre paranormal activities in Tinker Swiss Cottage in Rockford, Il., the Nevada State Prison, and Illinois’ Ashmore Estates over the course of the five-episode season.
Jack Osbourne’s Night of Terror Episodes:
Glen Tavern Inn
Premieres Sunday, October 1 at 10pm Et/Pt
In the season premiere,...
- 8/23/2023
- by Rebecca Murray
- Showbiz Junkies
Halloween programming is about to take over the small screen as we barrel towards spooky season, and Travel Channel has begun to announce their Halloween 2023 lineup.
This October, Jack Osbourne continues his journey into the paranormal and embarks on some of the most spine-tingling investigations of his career with a new season of “Jack Osbourne’s Night of Terror.” Joining Osbourne this season is his famous family and some of his closest celebrity friends, who all have a desire to get a deeper understanding of what paranormal entities are lurking in the shadows of some of America’s most historic and haunted locations.
The season kicks off with an unexpected twist as Sharon Osbourne’s paranormal crash course turns into a medical emergency when “Jack Osbourne’s Night of Terror” premieres Sunday, October 1 at 10/9c on Travel Channel.
In the season premiere, Glen Tavern Inn airing Sunday, October 1 at 10/9c on Travel Channel,...
This October, Jack Osbourne continues his journey into the paranormal and embarks on some of the most spine-tingling investigations of his career with a new season of “Jack Osbourne’s Night of Terror.” Joining Osbourne this season is his famous family and some of his closest celebrity friends, who all have a desire to get a deeper understanding of what paranormal entities are lurking in the shadows of some of America’s most historic and haunted locations.
The season kicks off with an unexpected twist as Sharon Osbourne’s paranormal crash course turns into a medical emergency when “Jack Osbourne’s Night of Terror” premieres Sunday, October 1 at 10/9c on Travel Channel.
In the season premiere, Glen Tavern Inn airing Sunday, October 1 at 10/9c on Travel Channel,...
- 8/23/2023
- by John Squires
- bloody-disgusting.com
For many, Kevin Smith is a filmmaker who once upon a time made great movies while others have stuck by his side through thick and thin. With the well-reviewed Clerks III wrapping up the story 30 years in the making, it is time we take a look back at one of the most iconic careers in independent film history and we find out just Wtf Happened to Kevin Smith.
But as always we must begin at the beginning and the beginning began for Kevin Smith on August 2, 1970 in Red Bank, New Jersey. Smith has said that seeing his father struggle with his job working at the post office made him vow to never work a job that he hated, but never really thought there was a future for someone like him in the film industry despite his love for movies. Smith would make friends with people such as future Comic Book...
But as always we must begin at the beginning and the beginning began for Kevin Smith on August 2, 1970 in Red Bank, New Jersey. Smith has said that seeing his father struggle with his job working at the post office made him vow to never work a job that he hated, but never really thought there was a future for someone like him in the film industry despite his love for movies. Smith would make friends with people such as future Comic Book...
- 8/18/2023
- by Brad Hamerly
- JoBlo.com
At the end of 1993’s Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday, horror fans saw the sight of Friday the 13th slasher Jason Voorhees’ hockey mask lying in the dirt, after its wearer had been vanquished. It seemed as though the story of this villain had finally come to the end. At least until A Nightmare on Elm Street’s Freddy Krueger’s blade-gloved hand popped out of the dirt and dragged the mask to Hell.
The scene seemed to tease an oncoming battle between Krueger and Voorhees, which fans had wanted. Horror geeks had debated who would win in such a fight, but for a very long time, it seemed like it would only exist in people’s fantasies and never in an actual movie. Until, of course, Ronny Yu’s Freddy vs. Jason came to fruition.
The slasher team up was released in the summer of 2003 and is...
The scene seemed to tease an oncoming battle between Krueger and Voorhees, which fans had wanted. Horror geeks had debated who would win in such a fight, but for a very long time, it seemed like it would only exist in people’s fantasies and never in an actual movie. Until, of course, Ronny Yu’s Freddy vs. Jason came to fruition.
The slasher team up was released in the summer of 2003 and is...
- 8/11/2023
- by Alan Dorich
- DailyDead
In addition to an enormously successful career as a stand-up comedian and a stint as a cast member on "Saturday Night Live," Chris Rock has starred in several acclaimed feature films. While much of Rock's cinematic work revolves around the signature humor he's known for in his stand-up, he has branched out to different genres, including crime thrillers and horror. Immensely magnetic, Rock commands full attention whenever he's on screen, elevating the projects he appears in, even on the occasions when he takes a supporting role.
More than just an actor, Rock is a solid filmmaker in his own right, producing, writing, and directing several projects. With a big screen career that began in the '80s, Rock has dozens of movies under his belt and is among the more underrated actors in Hollywood, evidenced by the bold choices in his performances. Here are the 14 best Chris Rock movies, ranging...
More than just an actor, Rock is a solid filmmaker in his own right, producing, writing, and directing several projects. With a big screen career that began in the '80s, Rock has dozens of movies under his belt and is among the more underrated actors in Hollywood, evidenced by the bold choices in his performances. Here are the 14 best Chris Rock movies, ranging...
- 4/20/2023
- by Samuel Stone
- Slash Film
In collaboration with “Clerks” mastermind Kevin Smith, Logic’s newest music video for his stoner anthem “Highlife” reunites the film’s cast. The video features Logic as the star at the original New Jersey Quick Stop set.
“Clerks” (1994) follows clerks Dante and Randal’s daily debauchery at a New Jersey convenience store. “Clerks II” premiered in 2006 and “Clerks III” in 2022. All of the “Clerks” films, along with Smith’s other works such as “Mallrats” (1995), “Chasing Amy” (1997) and “Dogma” (1999), are part of his fictional universe, referred to as “View Askewniverse.”
The music video’s cast includes Smith as Silent Bob, Brian O’Halloran as Dante, Jeff Anderson as Randal, Jason Mewes as Jay, Matt Ranieri as Mooby and Ernie O’Donnell as Trainer.
Logic has long admired Kevin Smith’s work. Smith direct messaged the rapper on Instagram to join “Clerks III,” but the rapper missed the alert. Once the creators did connect,...
“Clerks” (1994) follows clerks Dante and Randal’s daily debauchery at a New Jersey convenience store. “Clerks II” premiered in 2006 and “Clerks III” in 2022. All of the “Clerks” films, along with Smith’s other works such as “Mallrats” (1995), “Chasing Amy” (1997) and “Dogma” (1999), are part of his fictional universe, referred to as “View Askewniverse.”
The music video’s cast includes Smith as Silent Bob, Brian O’Halloran as Dante, Jeff Anderson as Randal, Jason Mewes as Jay, Matt Ranieri as Mooby and Ernie O’Donnell as Trainer.
Logic has long admired Kevin Smith’s work. Smith direct messaged the rapper on Instagram to join “Clerks III,” but the rapper missed the alert. Once the creators did connect,...
- 2/1/2023
- by Julia MacCary
- Variety Film + TV
On the JoBlo Movies YouTube channel, we will be posting one full movie every day of the week, giving viewers the chance to watch them entirely free of charge. Today’s Free Movie of the Day is the 2008 action war film Time Bomb, starring Jake Busey. You can watch it over on the YouTube channel linked above, or you can just watch it in the embed at the top of this article
Directed by Erin Berry, who crafted the screenplay with David Pluscauskas, Time Bomb has the following synopsis: Jason tragically lost his young son when their SUV exploded. Now fighting as a soldier in Iraq, the suicide bombings that occur around him on a daily basis constantly remind him of losing his son. An army scientist approaches Jason about an experimental virus that would create a squad of suicide bombers they could use against the enemy. Uncertain if he...
Directed by Erin Berry, who crafted the screenplay with David Pluscauskas, Time Bomb has the following synopsis: Jason tragically lost his young son when their SUV exploded. Now fighting as a soldier in Iraq, the suicide bombings that occur around him on a daily basis constantly remind him of losing his son. An army scientist approaches Jason about an experimental virus that would create a squad of suicide bombers they could use against the enemy. Uncertain if he...
- 1/9/2023
- by Cody Hamman
- JoBlo.com
I've never been much of a superhero movie fan, but one I'd have gladly queued up for back in the 1990s would have been Tim Burton directing Nicolas Cage in "Superman Lives." Along with Alejandro Jodorowsky's wildly ambitious non-starter "Dune," it must go down as one of the greatest what-ifs in cinema history, especially during that period of their respective careers.
"Mars Attacks!" aside, Burton was still regularly making great movies back then, with his unmistakable visual style and penchant for weirdos and outsiders like himself. Cage, on the other hand, was the maverick who made good with his Oscar-winning performance in "Leaving Las Vegas" before transforming himself into one of the decade's biggest action stars.
As for Superman, the time was right for a reinvention after the huge success of Burton's two "Batman" movies. The original "Superman" franchise, which had made audiences believe a man could fly since...
"Mars Attacks!" aside, Burton was still regularly making great movies back then, with his unmistakable visual style and penchant for weirdos and outsiders like himself. Cage, on the other hand, was the maverick who made good with his Oscar-winning performance in "Leaving Las Vegas" before transforming himself into one of the decade's biggest action stars.
As for Superman, the time was right for a reinvention after the huge success of Burton's two "Batman" movies. The original "Superman" franchise, which had made audiences believe a man could fly since...
- 12/25/2022
- by Lee Adams
- Slash Film
Stars: Brian O’Halloran, Jeff Anderson, Jason Mewes, Trevor Fehrman, Rosario Dawson, Kevin Smith, Marilyn Ghigliotti, Austin Zajur | Written and Directed by Kevin Smith
Following a massive heart attack, Randal enlists his friends and fellow clerks Dante, Elias, Jay, and Silent Bob to make a movie immortalizing his life at the convenience store that started it all.
Kevin Smith and his cohorts are back for a third round at the Quick Stop and like his previous Clerks movies, this three-quel calls upon Smith’s own life experiences – namely his well-publicised heart attack – to inform the plot. However Clerks 3 is also a huge love letter to Smith’s films and his fans…
A love letter to Smith’s oeuvre in so much as he homages scenes, lines and characters from a myriad of his previous works. The cast of characters he plucked from obscurity in New Jersey all those years ago returning...
Following a massive heart attack, Randal enlists his friends and fellow clerks Dante, Elias, Jay, and Silent Bob to make a movie immortalizing his life at the convenience store that started it all.
Kevin Smith and his cohorts are back for a third round at the Quick Stop and like his previous Clerks movies, this three-quel calls upon Smith’s own life experiences – namely his well-publicised heart attack – to inform the plot. However Clerks 3 is also a huge love letter to Smith’s films and his fans…
A love letter to Smith’s oeuvre in so much as he homages scenes, lines and characters from a myriad of his previous works. The cast of characters he plucked from obscurity in New Jersey all those years ago returning...
- 12/20/2022
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
In Kevin Smith's 1994 breakout comedy hit "Clerks," Gen X slacker and Quick Stop employee Dante Hicks (Brian O'Halloran) and his friend Randal Graves (Jeff Anderson) — who works at Rst Video, the video rental store next door — spend most of their days playing hockey on the Quick Stop rooftop, shooting the s*** about the pop culture they love, and, every so often, actually doing their jobs. By the time we catch up with the pair 28 years later in "Clerks III," not much has changed until, naturally, everything does.
Where 2006's "Clerks II" saw Smith turn the irreverent lens of his View Askewniverse onto the fast food industry, "Clerks III" finds him looking inward. Its story begins with Randal suffering a near-fatal heart attack, an event that inspires him to make a movie about his and Dante's lives at the Quick Stop. The film's inciting incident is, of course, based on...
Where 2006's "Clerks II" saw Smith turn the irreverent lens of his View Askewniverse onto the fast food industry, "Clerks III" finds him looking inward. Its story begins with Randal suffering a near-fatal heart attack, an event that inspires him to make a movie about his and Dante's lives at the Quick Stop. The film's inciting incident is, of course, based on...
- 12/6/2022
- by Sandy Schaefer
- Slash Film
Dante (Brian O'Halloran) and Randal (Jeff Anderson), the reluctant leaders of the slacker generation are back with "Clerks III," a surprisingly personal film from Kevin Smith to cap off his Quick Stop trilogy. Shot on a shoestring budget in stark black and white, the original "Clerks" was part of the new school of American indie cinema during the '90s, a fully self-aware decade that wasn't afraid to hold up a pop culture mirror to comment on a new breed of kids that had zero motivation and A Lot of attitude. Smith's conversational style made "Clerks" feel like we were hanging out with our deadbeat friends, somehow having the time of our lives having deathly serious conversations about the innocent deaths of independent contractors aboard the Death Star. The sequel, aptly named "Clerks II," showed how the corporatization of America helped to destroy the rebellious spirits of Dante and Randal,...
- 12/6/2022
- by Drew Tinnin
- Slash Film
The movie: "Zack and Miri Make a Porno"
Where you can stream it: Prime Video
The Pitch: Writer and director Kevin Smith brings his brand of crass but heartfelt comedy to a romantic story about two best friends, Zack (Seth Rogen) and Miri (Elizabeth Banks) who decide to make a porn film as a last-ditch effort to pay their rent and utility bills. While Smith usually prefers his performers to stick to the script because he writes such great dialogue, working with a bunch of actors who had come from the Judd Apatow world of improv acting allowed him to loosen up his storytelling style and let his performers go wild. The result is a heartwarming, absolutely hilarious romantic comedy that also might be one of the filthiest and most wholesome movies ever made.
As Zack and Miri try to make their movie, they meet a ragtag crew of sweet deviants who help them.
Where you can stream it: Prime Video
The Pitch: Writer and director Kevin Smith brings his brand of crass but heartfelt comedy to a romantic story about two best friends, Zack (Seth Rogen) and Miri (Elizabeth Banks) who decide to make a porn film as a last-ditch effort to pay their rent and utility bills. While Smith usually prefers his performers to stick to the script because he writes such great dialogue, working with a bunch of actors who had come from the Judd Apatow world of improv acting allowed him to loosen up his storytelling style and let his performers go wild. The result is a heartwarming, absolutely hilarious romantic comedy that also might be one of the filthiest and most wholesome movies ever made.
As Zack and Miri try to make their movie, they meet a ragtag crew of sweet deviants who help them.
- 10/14/2022
- by Danielle Ryan
- Slash Film
One of the weirdest things about getting older are those moments when you look around and suddenly realize everybody else looks ancient too; your family, friends, and those celebrities and movie stars you grew up watching and assumed would stay young forever.
My brain still struggles to compute the fact that Brad Pitt and Johnny Depp are both almost 60. Pitt still looks great; I have no data to support this, but I'm sure millions of middle-aged men were inspired to renew their gym membership after he took his shirt off in "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood." On the flip side, Depp now looks like a guy who lives on a canal boat with several cats.
Belated remakes and reboots can show their age, too. "Trainspotting" was the acerbic voice of a restless generation, while the cringey retread of the "Choose Life" speech in the sequel was just like Grandpa Simpson yelling at clouds.
My brain still struggles to compute the fact that Brad Pitt and Johnny Depp are both almost 60. Pitt still looks great; I have no data to support this, but I'm sure millions of middle-aged men were inspired to renew their gym membership after he took his shirt off in "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood." On the flip side, Depp now looks like a guy who lives on a canal boat with several cats.
Belated remakes and reboots can show their age, too. "Trainspotting" was the acerbic voice of a restless generation, while the cringey retread of the "Choose Life" speech in the sequel was just like Grandpa Simpson yelling at clouds.
- 10/7/2022
- by Lee Adams
- Slash Film
Kevin Smith has directed eight feature films since 2006's "Clerks II" — including "Clerks III," it so happens — but "Clerks II" might function best as the coda to his body of work. In the film, Dante (Brian O'Halloran) and Randall (Jeff Anderson), now in their early 40s, have been reduced to working at a low-price fast food joint called Mooby's to make ends meet. Dante is poised to marry his fiancée Emma (Jennifer Schwalbach) and move to Florida to run a car wash. This has Dante facing an existential crisis, as he is actually in love with his manager Becky (Rosario Dawson), with whom he had an affair. Randall, too, is thrown into an existential crisis by the impending absence of his best friend. The future doesn't look bright. The decisions these characters make in "Clerks II" will essentially come to define their adulthoods, and they are still, in many ways,...
- 9/29/2022
- by Witney Seibold
- Slash Film
Those only familiar with Kevin Smith's more recent films, like "Clerks III" or "Jay and Silent Bob Reboot," which are pretty intensely absurdist and lined with in-jokes, may be surprised to see the kind of film Smith's career started with.
"Clerks" is an extremely low-key film: A black and white picture that simply focuses on two buddies spending the day working at a convenience store. The film's modesty is in part a result of its shoestring budget. It was Kevin Smith's first feature film as a director, and in order to scrape together the measly budget of 27,575 he had to max out ten credit cards and sell his comic book collection, among other things.
His hard work and sacrifice paid off, however, as the movie was positively received and made 4 million at the box office, which was a huge success compared to the budget. With this moderate success, Smith...
"Clerks" is an extremely low-key film: A black and white picture that simply focuses on two buddies spending the day working at a convenience store. The film's modesty is in part a result of its shoestring budget. It was Kevin Smith's first feature film as a director, and in order to scrape together the measly budget of 27,575 he had to max out ten credit cards and sell his comic book collection, among other things.
His hard work and sacrifice paid off, however, as the movie was positively received and made 4 million at the box office, which was a huge success compared to the budget. With this moderate success, Smith...
- 9/29/2022
- by Matt Rainis
- Slash Film
Filmmaker Kevin Smith started his career by making a movie with his friends, and honestly, nothing's really changed. The prolific writer and director recently released his goodbye to the View Askewniverse, "Clerks III," and pulled out all of the stops bringing his famous (and not-so-famous) friends together for one last hurrah.
There are so many cameos in "Clerks III" that it's almost difficult to determine what's a cameo and what's simply someone reprising a role from one of the other Askewniverse films, but that's honestly part of the fun. After all, this is a universe where there are at least five different men walking around looking and sounding like Ben Affleck, including a brand new one introduced in "Clerks III."
Dante (Brian O'Halloran) and Randal (Jeff Anderson) are back, of course, along with a few other View Askewniverse favorites that actually have too much screen-time to be "cameos," but there...
There are so many cameos in "Clerks III" that it's almost difficult to determine what's a cameo and what's simply someone reprising a role from one of the other Askewniverse films, but that's honestly part of the fun. After all, this is a universe where there are at least five different men walking around looking and sounding like Ben Affleck, including a brand new one introduced in "Clerks III."
Dante (Brian O'Halloran) and Randal (Jeff Anderson) are back, of course, along with a few other View Askewniverse favorites that actually have too much screen-time to be "cameos," but there...
- 9/17/2022
- by Danielle Ryan
- Slash Film
Independent movies have been a thing for just about as long as movies have been a popular form of entertainment. But there was a point in the '90s when major studios realized that indie movies could also be good business, and Miramax was at the cutting edge of that movement, acquiring a string of films out of the festival circuit and turning them into hits. Miramax, founded by Bob Weinstein and the since-disgraced Harvey Weinstein (who is currently in prison), was so successful that Disney ended up buying the company in 1993.
Miramax wanted to prove that it could still do what it had always done despite being owned by the Mouse House. So, in 1994, the studio went to Sundance and went on a spending spree. Most notably, it acquired Quentin Tarantino's all-time classic "Pulp Fiction," which went on to become a gigantic hit and perhaps one of the...
Miramax wanted to prove that it could still do what it had always done despite being owned by the Mouse House. So, in 1994, the studio went to Sundance and went on a spending spree. Most notably, it acquired Quentin Tarantino's all-time classic "Pulp Fiction," which went on to become a gigantic hit and perhaps one of the...
- 9/17/2022
- by Ryan Scott
- Slash Film
Regardless of what you might think of his movies, his worldview, or anything else, filmmaker Kevin Smith remains a genuine maverick in the industry. His first movie, Clerks, was made for 27,000 with local actors in and around the south New Jersey environs of his youth, which inspired the movie. And it remains a genuine milestone of independent filmmaking. It helped pave the way for more DIY filmmakers to emerge outside the confines of the studio systems, with its improvised, lo-fi aesthetic being seen today in movies filmed on iPhones.
In the nearly 30 years since Clerks was released, Smith has continued to write and direct his own features while also occasionally working as a director-for-hire on larger studio projects. The core movies of his canon, known as the View Askewniverse and featuring Jason Mewes and Smith himself as anchor characters Jay and Silent Bob, predated the Marvel Cinematic Universe by more than a decade.
In the nearly 30 years since Clerks was released, Smith has continued to write and direct his own features while also occasionally working as a director-for-hire on larger studio projects. The core movies of his canon, known as the View Askewniverse and featuring Jason Mewes and Smith himself as anchor characters Jay and Silent Bob, predated the Marvel Cinematic Universe by more than a decade.
- 9/17/2022
- by David Crow
- Den of Geek
With the release of Clerks III and the ninth appearance of Jay and Silent Bob, what would you like to ask its creator and star?
Actor and director Kevin Smith’s career started with an unexpected success story: 1994’s Clerks, a raunchy comedy based on the convenience store where Smith once worked, filmed for 25,000 and funded by credit cards and favours from friends.
It has since spawned nine films in what Smith calls the View Askewniverse. You’ll know Silent Bob and his friend Jay (Jason Mewes) from Clerks, Mallrats, Chasing Amy, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, Clerks II – and now Clerks III. In this latest, Randal Graves (Jeff Anderson) from the original Clerks has survived a heart attack, and wants to make a movie with Dante Hicks (Brian O’Halloran) about their lives at the Quick Stop.
Actor and director Kevin Smith’s career started with an unexpected success story: 1994’s Clerks, a raunchy comedy based on the convenience store where Smith once worked, filmed for 25,000 and funded by credit cards and favours from friends.
It has since spawned nine films in what Smith calls the View Askewniverse. You’ll know Silent Bob and his friend Jay (Jason Mewes) from Clerks, Mallrats, Chasing Amy, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, Clerks II – and now Clerks III. In this latest, Randal Graves (Jeff Anderson) from the original Clerks has survived a heart attack, and wants to make a movie with Dante Hicks (Brian O’Halloran) about their lives at the Quick Stop.
- 9/16/2022
- by Rich Pelley
- The Guardian - Film News
Chicago – Patrick McDonald of HollywoodChicago.com appears on “The Morning Mess” with Scott Thompson on Wbgr-fm on September 15th, 2022, reviewing “Clerks III,” the third film in Kevin Smith’s New Jersey convenience story trilogy. Currently in theaters after opening on September 13th.
Rating: 3.5/5.0
When we last encountered Dante Hicks (Brian O’Halloran) and Randal Graves (Jeff Anderson), they had bought the Quick Stop in Leonardo, New Jersey, and continue their drab lives as Clerks. Along for the ride is Jay (Jason Mewes) and Silent Bob, the weed dealers who hang out in the store’s parking lot, and the usual gang of customers and fellow travelers. When the forty-something Randal has a heart attack, he decides to stop obsessing about movies, and actually make one. So his new movie “Inconvenience” starts to film, making “Clerks III” a meta movie which is a movie that was once a movie.
“Clerks III” is currently in theaters.
Rating: 3.5/5.0
When we last encountered Dante Hicks (Brian O’Halloran) and Randal Graves (Jeff Anderson), they had bought the Quick Stop in Leonardo, New Jersey, and continue their drab lives as Clerks. Along for the ride is Jay (Jason Mewes) and Silent Bob, the weed dealers who hang out in the store’s parking lot, and the usual gang of customers and fellow travelers. When the forty-something Randal has a heart attack, he decides to stop obsessing about movies, and actually make one. So his new movie “Inconvenience” starts to film, making “Clerks III” a meta movie which is a movie that was once a movie.
“Clerks III” is currently in theaters.
- 9/15/2022
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Kevin Smith's latest film, "Clerks III," catches up with the characters of Dante (Brian O'Halloran) and Randall (Jeff Anderson) after their brief dalliance with low-level employment at a burger joint in 2006's "Clerks II." At the end of that film, Dante and Randall found themselves directionless after spending their 40s in minimum-wage jobs. Dante left his fiancée, and the pair found themselves in jail with the perpetual stoners Jay and Silent Bob (Jason Mewes and Smith). Dante and Randall found that their way out of their rut was to go back. Using weed money from Jay and Silent Bob, Dante and Randall merely bought the convenience store they felt trapped in back in the original "Clerks."
It was a happy ending for Dante and Randall, but also a declaration from Smith. Staying put (critics might say stagnating) was, Smith declared, a form of triumph.
In "Clerks III," however, Dante...
It was a happy ending for Dante and Randall, but also a declaration from Smith. Staying put (critics might say stagnating) was, Smith declared, a form of triumph.
In "Clerks III," however, Dante...
- 9/15/2022
- by Witney Seibold
- Slash Film
Smith’s geeky comedy is as lightweight as ever, but it retains its charm in the unlikely franchise’s third outing
Having launched his wobbly, weird career with the ultra-low-budget Clerks in 1994, Kevin Smith comes back full circle with a third bite at the cherry, a more lushly produced package than the trilogy’s originator but with the same old scrappy, scattershot mix of gags about adolescent genitalia and bodily fluids, geeky pop-culture references, and natural comic timing. Like the junk food that the central characters sell in their convenience store, it’s a strangely moreish brew that you enjoy but feel faintly guilty about consuming, like nachos with cheese-flavoured sauce or a blue slushy ice drink.
Smith has dabbled in making more conventional features, done standup comedy, podcasting and owned a bricks-and-mortar comic book store, but he knows that the Clerks franchise will always be his legacy. That means...
Having launched his wobbly, weird career with the ultra-low-budget Clerks in 1994, Kevin Smith comes back full circle with a third bite at the cherry, a more lushly produced package than the trilogy’s originator but with the same old scrappy, scattershot mix of gags about adolescent genitalia and bodily fluids, geeky pop-culture references, and natural comic timing. Like the junk food that the central characters sell in their convenience store, it’s a strangely moreish brew that you enjoy but feel faintly guilty about consuming, like nachos with cheese-flavoured sauce or a blue slushy ice drink.
Smith has dabbled in making more conventional features, done standup comedy, podcasting and owned a bricks-and-mortar comic book store, but he knows that the Clerks franchise will always be his legacy. That means...
- 9/15/2022
- by Leslie Felperin
- The Guardian - Film News
This article contains spoilers for "Clerks III."
In Kevin Smith's newest film, "Clerks III," he catches up with Dante (Brian O'Halloran) and Randall (Jeff Anderson) about a decade after the events of "Clerks II." At the end of the previous chapter, Dante and Randall, after struggling through a painful span as low-paying fast-food employees, came to the conclusion that they were happiest back when they were hanging out together in the convenience store where they worked in their 20s. With a loan from Jay (Jason Mewes) and Silent Bob (Smith), Dante and Randall bought the Quick Stop outright, and hunkered down in a familiar setting. Sometimes, stagnating can be a positive thing.
Additionally, Dante had split up with his mean-spirited fiancée, and was all set to settle down with his new fiancée Becky (Roasrio Dawson), his manager at the burger joint in "Clerks II." Becky and Dante are a good pair,...
In Kevin Smith's newest film, "Clerks III," he catches up with Dante (Brian O'Halloran) and Randall (Jeff Anderson) about a decade after the events of "Clerks II." At the end of the previous chapter, Dante and Randall, after struggling through a painful span as low-paying fast-food employees, came to the conclusion that they were happiest back when they were hanging out together in the convenience store where they worked in their 20s. With a loan from Jay (Jason Mewes) and Silent Bob (Smith), Dante and Randall bought the Quick Stop outright, and hunkered down in a familiar setting. Sometimes, stagnating can be a positive thing.
Additionally, Dante had split up with his mean-spirited fiancée, and was all set to settle down with his new fiancée Becky (Roasrio Dawson), his manager at the burger joint in "Clerks II." Becky and Dante are a good pair,...
- 9/14/2022
- by Witney Seibold
- Slash Film
Clerks III Review — Clerks III (2022) Film Review, a movie written and directed by Kevin Smith and starring Brian O’Halloran, Jeff Anderson, Trevor Fehrman, Rosario Dawson, Kevin Smith, Jason Mewes, Marilyn Ghigliotti, Austin Zajur, Lisa Hampton, Scott Schiaffo, Dave Ferrier, Aj Wilkerson, Ben Affleck, Freddie Prinze Jr., Sarah Michelle Gellar, Justin Long and [...]
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Continue reading: Film Review: Clerks III (2022): Kevin Smith Ends a Trilogy with Heartfelt Sincerity and Many Laugh-Out-Loud Funny Scenes...
- 9/14/2022
- by Thomas Duffy
- Film-Book
Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck doubled down on their marriage vows with a decidedly more elaborate affair in Riceboro, Ga (a small town just outside of Savannah), on Saturday, Aug. 20. The couple - who were officially married at a Las Vegas wedding chapel on July 17 - celebrated their love with their friends and families in Georgia.
The couple's second ceremony was a star-studded event. Affleck's longtime friend Matt Damon was in attendance alongside his wife, Luciana Barroso. Other guests included director Kevin Smith and his wife, Jennifer; "Clerks" star Jason Mewes and his wife, Jordan Monsanto; and model Pia Miller and her husband, Patrick Whitesell. Meanwhile, photos indicate the wedding party included Lopez's children with Marc Anthony, 14-year-old twins Max and Emme, as well as Affleck's children with ex Jennifer Garner: Violet (16), Seraphina (13), and Samuel (10).
Lopez walked down the aisle in a white Ralph Lauren wedding gown with a long train,...
The couple's second ceremony was a star-studded event. Affleck's longtime friend Matt Damon was in attendance alongside his wife, Luciana Barroso. Other guests included director Kevin Smith and his wife, Jennifer; "Clerks" star Jason Mewes and his wife, Jordan Monsanto; and model Pia Miller and her husband, Patrick Whitesell. Meanwhile, photos indicate the wedding party included Lopez's children with Marc Anthony, 14-year-old twins Max and Emme, as well as Affleck's children with ex Jennifer Garner: Violet (16), Seraphina (13), and Samuel (10).
Lopez walked down the aisle in a white Ralph Lauren wedding gown with a long train,...
- 9/13/2022
- by Lindsay Kimble
- Popsugar.com
When costume designer Allison Pearce signed on for “Clerks III,” everything she needed to know on the research front was there in black and white — literally.
“I knew going in this would be a very research-heavy project,” she recalled. “In ‘Clerks III,’ there’s this portion of the script where there is a movie-within-a-movie. It’s all realizing things that happened in [‘Clerks’], so we recreated it. All of it was based on this research I did and screenshots of a VHS tape we were looking at.”
The final chapter in writer-director Kevin Smith’s trilogy following the low-stakes retail misadventures of Dante (Brian O’Halloran) and Randal (Jeff Anderson) and the two well-traveled pot dealers who loiter outside their workplaces is the first time Pearce and the filmmaker have collaborated. To get a comprehensive grasp on the clothing in Smith’s catalog, she rewatched every single entry in his View Askewniverse and beyond.
“I knew going in this would be a very research-heavy project,” she recalled. “In ‘Clerks III,’ there’s this portion of the script where there is a movie-within-a-movie. It’s all realizing things that happened in [‘Clerks’], so we recreated it. All of it was based on this research I did and screenshots of a VHS tape we were looking at.”
The final chapter in writer-director Kevin Smith’s trilogy following the low-stakes retail misadventures of Dante (Brian O’Halloran) and Randal (Jeff Anderson) and the two well-traveled pot dealers who loiter outside their workplaces is the first time Pearce and the filmmaker have collaborated. To get a comprehensive grasp on the clothing in Smith’s catalog, she rewatched every single entry in his View Askewniverse and beyond.
- 9/13/2022
- by Simon Thompson
- Indiewire
The more things change, the more they stay the same. That may be the overriding theme of Clerks III, the third, and perhaps final, entry in writer-director Kevin Smith’s Quick Stop convenience story trilogy that has been the anchor for nearly his entire canon of films.
While certain life-shaking events have taken place in the 16 years since Smith made Clerks II—events which we won’t reveal here—the new movie gets the most mileage out of familiar situations and characters in the orbit of the Quick Stop, the fictional New Jersey store based on Smith’s own early work history at a convenience store before he became a filmmaker.
Yet while the film retains much of the often coarse, crude humor of many of Smith’s earlier View Askewniverse movies, and while his filmmaking style still usually hinges on long, static shots of people just standing around and talking,...
While certain life-shaking events have taken place in the 16 years since Smith made Clerks II—events which we won’t reveal here—the new movie gets the most mileage out of familiar situations and characters in the orbit of the Quick Stop, the fictional New Jersey store based on Smith’s own early work history at a convenience store before he became a filmmaker.
Yet while the film retains much of the often coarse, crude humor of many of Smith’s earlier View Askewniverse movies, and while his filmmaking style still usually hinges on long, static shots of people just standing around and talking,...
- 9/13/2022
- by Don Kaye
- Den of Geek
Brian OÕHalloran as Dante and Jeff Anderson as Randal in Clerks III. Photo Credit: Courtesy of Lionsgate
Alright you slackers, Labor Day’s in the rearview mirror. Time to “hit the bricks” and get back to work. If your first thought is “Aw, no”, “Ugh!”, or…something we can’t repeat here, then this film might resonate with you. At least that’s what a New Jersey-born filmmaker hopes, since that notion “put him on the map” nearly thirty years ago. And if your earlier response included the “salty talk”, then all the better. Hard to imagine that in 1994 Kevin Smith fashioned a script of his retail drudgery and unleashed Clerks on the world. Soon he was the darling of TV talk shows, getting offers from the major studios, and even flexed his “acting chops” (plus the grungy lil’ black and white was another jewel in the “indie cred crown” of Miramax Studios…...
Alright you slackers, Labor Day’s in the rearview mirror. Time to “hit the bricks” and get back to work. If your first thought is “Aw, no”, “Ugh!”, or…something we can’t repeat here, then this film might resonate with you. At least that’s what a New Jersey-born filmmaker hopes, since that notion “put him on the map” nearly thirty years ago. And if your earlier response included the “salty talk”, then all the better. Hard to imagine that in 1994 Kevin Smith fashioned a script of his retail drudgery and unleashed Clerks on the world. Soon he was the darling of TV talk shows, getting offers from the major studios, and even flexed his “acting chops” (plus the grungy lil’ black and white was another jewel in the “indie cred crown” of Miramax Studios…...
- 9/12/2022
- by Jim Batts
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
While she did make a relatively brief appearance in 2019’s Jay and Silent Bob Reboot, as a completely different character, Kevin Smith’s Clerks III marks Rosario Dawson’s first major return to Smith’s View Askewniverse since her character Becky Scott debuted in Clerks II back in 2006.
By the end of that film, the sexually liberated, commitment-averse Becky had become pregnant with the child of Clerks mainstay Dante Hicks (Brian O’Halloran) and accepted his sudden proposal of marriage. But the thing about happy endings is they only work if you stop the story at a certain point. Hence why Dawson tells Den of Geek that she was surprised when she read the script for the new movie and learned that Dante and Becky’s journey veers in quite a different direction (which we won’t reveal here).
“He didn’t tell me,” Dawson recalls. “I had to read it [and] experience it for myself.
By the end of that film, the sexually liberated, commitment-averse Becky had become pregnant with the child of Clerks mainstay Dante Hicks (Brian O’Halloran) and accepted his sudden proposal of marriage. But the thing about happy endings is they only work if you stop the story at a certain point. Hence why Dawson tells Den of Geek that she was surprised when she read the script for the new movie and learned that Dante and Becky’s journey veers in quite a different direction (which we won’t reveal here).
“He didn’t tell me,” Dawson recalls. “I had to read it [and] experience it for myself.
- 9/12/2022
- by Don Kaye
- Den of Geek
For die-hards who have been there from the beginning, it can be frustrating to watch the evolution of a filmmaker’s work as they branch out and try their hand at different genres with various budget levels and under fluctuating circumstances. While I can’t say I’m old enough to have been there for the very start, like many heterosexual males with filmmaking aspirations, I always looked up to Kevin Smith since first discovering Clerks on VHS from my local video store. That picture was infused with a certain Gen X authenticity that perhaps came with growing up on the Jersey shore. The funny thing about folks that grew up in Jersey––and Springsteen has said, roughly, the same thing––is we just don’t know how great and interesting of a state it truly is until you’re away from it. In this respect, Smith has come full circle and come home again.
- 9/12/2022
- by John Fink
- The Film Stage
Stars: Brian O’Halloran, Jeff Anderson, Jason Mewes, Trevor Fehrman, Rosario Dawson, Kevin Smith, Marilyn Ghigliotti, Austin Zajur | Written and Directed by Kevin Smith
Following a massive heart attack, Randal enlists his friends and fellow clerks Dante, Elias, Jay, and Silent Bob to make a movie immortalizing his life at the convenience store that started it all.
Kevin Smith and his cohorts are back for a third round at the Quick Stop and like his previous Clerks movies, this three-quel calls upon Smith’s own life experiences – namely his well-publicised heart attack – to inform the plot. However Clerks 3 is also a huge love letter to Smith’s films and his fans…
A love letter to Smith’s oeuvre in so much as he homages scenes, lines and characters from a myriad of his previous works. The cast of characters he plucked from obscurity in New Jersey all those years ago returning...
Following a massive heart attack, Randal enlists his friends and fellow clerks Dante, Elias, Jay, and Silent Bob to make a movie immortalizing his life at the convenience store that started it all.
Kevin Smith and his cohorts are back for a third round at the Quick Stop and like his previous Clerks movies, this three-quel calls upon Smith’s own life experiences – namely his well-publicised heart attack – to inform the plot. However Clerks 3 is also a huge love letter to Smith’s films and his fans…
A love letter to Smith’s oeuvre in so much as he homages scenes, lines and characters from a myriad of his previous works. The cast of characters he plucked from obscurity in New Jersey all those years ago returning...
- 9/12/2022
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
Plot: After a near fatal heart attack, Randal convinces his convenient shop partner Dante to help him make a movie about his life working at the Quick Stop.
Review: Back in 1994, Kevin Smith’s indie classic, Clerks, became the unsung hero of those working behind the counter and in customer service. It also inspired many young filmmakers to make movies of their own. I became an instant fan of the hockey jersey-wearing Smith, as well as his on-screen persona of “Silent Bob.” And yes, I’ve appreciated much of what he brought to his later features. Still I was weary about Clerks III. Dante, Randal, Jay, and his wordless sidekick, Bob. How do you continue with the dick and fart jokes when all the original actors are well into middle age? It certainly doesn’t hurt to borrow from real-life adulthood fears.
Nearly thirty years after we first met Dante...
Review: Back in 1994, Kevin Smith’s indie classic, Clerks, became the unsung hero of those working behind the counter and in customer service. It also inspired many young filmmakers to make movies of their own. I became an instant fan of the hockey jersey-wearing Smith, as well as his on-screen persona of “Silent Bob.” And yes, I’ve appreciated much of what he brought to his later features. Still I was weary about Clerks III. Dante, Randal, Jay, and his wordless sidekick, Bob. How do you continue with the dick and fart jokes when all the original actors are well into middle age? It certainly doesn’t hurt to borrow from real-life adulthood fears.
Nearly thirty years after we first met Dante...
- 9/8/2022
- by JimmyO
- JoBlo.com
In Kevin Smith’s debut feature “Clerks,” way back in 1994, the indie filmmaker told a story of two workaday twentysomethings whose lives were so tragically limited that they not only revolved around retail work, but when the characters did consider life’s big questions and mysteries, their lack of personal experience also left them searching for deeper meaning in pop culture ephemera like “Star Wars.”
Smith was a young filmmaker, naive cinematically but painfully, sometimes embarrassingly earnest in his commitment to capturing the lives of foul-mouthed losers who fill their days with crass sexual humor and existential malaise. Nearly 30 years later — and 16 years after “Clerks II” found his title characters trapped in the same old rut — he’s back with “Clerks III,” a film which doesn’t plumb popular culture for the meaning of life. Instead, it searches for that depth within the original “Clerks” and Smith’s own life story.
Smith was a young filmmaker, naive cinematically but painfully, sometimes embarrassingly earnest in his commitment to capturing the lives of foul-mouthed losers who fill their days with crass sexual humor and existential malaise. Nearly 30 years later — and 16 years after “Clerks II” found his title characters trapped in the same old rut — he’s back with “Clerks III,” a film which doesn’t plumb popular culture for the meaning of life. Instead, it searches for that depth within the original “Clerks” and Smith’s own life story.
- 9/8/2022
- by William Bibbiani
- The Wrap
The phrase “this one’s for the fans” is usually delivered from a defensive posture. But in the case of “Clerks III,” it’s practically a statement of purpose. Now nearly three decades removed from the microbudget indie that made him one of the most unlikely major auteurs of the 1990s, writer-director-podcaster Kevin Smith has once again returned to the New Jersey Quick Stop where he first staked his claim as a filmmaker, bringing his now-fiftysomething slacker heroes back to confront the listlessness of middle age. But the real focus of “Clerks III” is not really Randal and Dante at all, but rather the film “Clerks” itself, and Smith aims this third installment straight at his diminished but still rabid fanbase, for whom the film remains a touchstone.
After a lively opening sequence scored to My Chemical Romance’s “Welcome to the Black Parade” – Jersey pride is on full display...
After a lively opening sequence scored to My Chemical Romance’s “Welcome to the Black Parade” – Jersey pride is on full display...
- 9/8/2022
- by Andrew Barker
- Variety Film + TV
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Like an ouroboros that has tired of sucking his own tail and moved on to another body part, Kevin Smith’s Clerks III is about as pure an exercise in self-referential self-gratification as you get on a movie screen, and if your understandable response is, “who the hell asked for this,” well, you’re just not paying attention.
More entrepreneur and raconteur than filmmaker (an assessment he might agree with), Smith knows he has enough loyal followers to justify multiple returns to nearly every well he has dug, at least those related to his “View Askewniverse.” But while some of his many spinoffs and sequels have smelled of near-desperation and little more, this one’s also personal: Inspired by the heart attack that nearly killed him in 2018, it’s a story about valuing those you love and trying to keep living until you’re dead.
Like an ouroboros that has tired of sucking his own tail and moved on to another body part, Kevin Smith’s Clerks III is about as pure an exercise in self-referential self-gratification as you get on a movie screen, and if your understandable response is, “who the hell asked for this,” well, you’re just not paying attention.
More entrepreneur and raconteur than filmmaker (an assessment he might agree with), Smith knows he has enough loyal followers to justify multiple returns to nearly every well he has dug, at least those related to his “View Askewniverse.” But while some of his many spinoffs and sequels have smelled of near-desperation and little more, this one’s also personal: Inspired by the heart attack that nearly killed him in 2018, it’s a story about valuing those you love and trying to keep living until you’re dead.
- 9/8/2022
- by John DeFore
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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- 9/3/2022
- by Adrian Halen
- Horror News
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