Kevin Smith

Let’s get this out of the way: I am not a Kevin Smith fan. He has always seemed more interested in hiring actors to recite his own self-consciously profane monologues than in creating living, breathing characters, and the results are reliably tedious.

For the most part, though, Red State avoids Smith’s usual pitfalls and just lets Michael Parks work his villainous magic. Parks plays a fringe fundamentalist Christian preacher in the mold of Fred Phelps… See more →

In the Stereo

• Cynic: Traced in Air

On the Silver Screen

• Synechdoche, New York
• My Name Is Bruce
• Zack and Miri Make a Porno