Dante’s Inferno: Making Sense of Kevin Smith’s Clerks Trilogy

Kevin Smith's Clerks Trilogy sits alongside Richard Linklater's Before Trilogy as a fascinating experiment in long-term linear storytelling. They're both nearly thirty-year-long treatises about the ways we mature (and the ways we don't). But Smith's trilogy is also a strange case of evolution and de-evolution that charts its characters' (and its filmmaker's) rise and fall. On this episode of Too Many Tapes, let's take a look at what Dante Hicks, the main character of the Clerks Trilogy, can tell us about the series' meaning, and where Kevin Smith is as a filmmaker, an artist, and (surprisingly) a philosopher.

George of the Jungle is Better Than You Remember

The Brendan-aissance begins! Also, right at the top, I know I mispronounced Brendan Fraser's name like 15 times in this video. Sorry about that. George of the Jungle is a breezy delightful little family rom-com of the variety that simply does not get produced anymore. It's lovely, and works largely on the back of its fleet-footed script and the sheer, white-hot charisma of its young star - Brendan Fraser. It made over $100 million dollars, but has seemingly been largely forgotten, lost to the streaming content hole that is Disney+ and locked behind the weird, confusing Disney Movie Club for physical media. On this episode of Too Many Tapes, let's take a look at this 1997 cult classic and appreciate the star-making turn of one of America's finest and (until now) least-celebrated movie stars.

A Very Gerbert Christmas: The Gift of Giving | VHS Review

It's time once again for another Too Many Tapes Holiday Special! Join me as I examine the shockingly earnest and effective holiday stylings of America's favorite boy-mayor-slash-pumpkin-child Gerbert, as he explores the importance of selflessness in the holiday season. In true Gerbert fashion, it's obnoxious, cloying, baffling, and weirdly emotionally gripping! Here's hoping you and yours are having a wonderful holiday season, and I hope if you have the means you can find it in your heart to take this annoying little puppet's wholesome message to heart and donate to a holiday charity drive in your hometown this season.