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Critic wrangle: "Zack and Miri Make a Porno."

By Alison Willmore on 10/31/2008

Filed under: Critic wrangle

I liked Kevin Smith's rom-com just fine when I caught it at Fantastic Fest last month, though I'm getting pretty tired of the Smith/Apatow tendency to obscure sappiness with poop jokes. Own it or get over it, boys. The critics are all over the place with "Zack and Miri Make a Porno," which is either heartfelt, tiresome or both. On the pro side: Roger Ebert, who compares Smith, favorable, to a line cook, and Robert Wilonsky at the Village Voice, who shrugs that "nothing about Zack and Miri feels terribly fresh, much less transgressive," but adds that "there is something... MORE »

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Fantastic Fest 2008: Opening Night, "Zack and Miri Make a Porno."

By Alison Willmore on 09/20/2008

Filed under: Festivals, Reviews

There's incredible (and welcome) cultural whiplash in sneaking away from the middle of the determinedly highbrow New York Film Festival to head to Austin for Fantastic Fest, an event that's most certainly not. Dedicated to horror, sci-fi, fantasy, cult and general genre fare, Fantastic Fest is the brainchild of Alamo Drafthouse founder Tim League with support from Ain't It Cool News' Harry Knowles, with a line-up of international fanboy sprawl that this year includes everything from Icelandic LARPing comedy "Astropia" to Korean Leone homage "The Good, The Bad and The Weird" to a documentary about William Castle and sidebars focused... MORE »

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"I can't help but be autobiographical in everything I do."

By Alison Willmore on 04/01/2008

The world in quotes: "We make different kinds of movies. I don't have the technical knowledge he has. He's got a vision, and his films are very testosterone-fueled. Mine are much more from a female point of view, and I can't help but be autobiographical in everything I do." —Madonna tells Vanity Fair about the difference between her films and Guy Ritchie's. "My race is important to me, but when people were asking me who I would want to play me in a movie, I wasn't saying Jet Li or Chow Yun Fat. I was saying Topher Grace." —Jeff Ma,... MORE »

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"I'm Fucking Seth Rogen" : A Cautionary Tale

By Alison Willmore on 02/26/2008

Filed under: In the works

I'd never want to encourage the "I'm Fucking _________" video trend, which looks to be making its way along the sharp downhill grade to Overkillsville right... about... now, but Kevin Smith, whose current film in production, "Zack and Miri Make a Porno," is, well, about the act in question, has turned in his own version featuring leads Elizabeth Banks and Seth Rogen. The two are charming enough to make an already old joke work, particularly in when Banks casts the song as a tale of trying to get ahead in Hollywood, and when Rogen extols his skill at improvising scenes... MORE »