Like the classic horror villain who won’t stay dead, the clerks of Clerks have suited up once more in the blue-and-yellow garb of the Quick Stop in suburban New Jersey. Twenty-eight years have passed since Kevin Smith introduced the characters in his low-budget indie debut, and their station in life is pretty much the same. Dante (Brian O’Halloran) and Randal (Jeff Anderson) … [Read more...]
‘Last Blockbuster’ recalls an era of cinephiles and serendipity
There’s a joke from the Craig Kilborn years of The Daily Show that has, in essence, stuck with me after some 23 years. Google doesn’t remember it — not everything was transcribed for posterity on the Web back then — but the premise was about Citizen Kane topping the AFI’s 1998 list of the Top 100 Movies of All Time. Then Kilborn dropped the punch line, and I’m paraphrasing from … [Read more...]