Kevin Smith: ‘How are you going to get laid if you look like an old person?’
The film-maker on his latest Clerks movie, his bromance with Alan Rickman, smoking weed – and the unexpected benefits of veganism
September 2022
The reader interview
Post your questions for Kevin Smith
Clerks III review – family reunion for Kevin Smith’s convenience store comedy
May 2019
How we made
Kevin Smith: how we made Clerks
‘We shot it after hours in the store where I worked, filming from 11pm to 6am with the shutters closed. Everyone assumed we were making a porno’
September 2015
Kevin Smith: 'It's not just dudes who want to see characters in tights'
On the eve of his Australian tour, the Clerks director talks about making superhero films for girls, being typecast and giving up on pleasing the critics
August 2015
Readers suggest the 10 best …
Readers suggest the 10 best stoners
After last week’s 10 Best Stoners, many of you got in touch to have your say on the subject. Here, we present your alternative suggestions
July 2014
Role model
Why I'd like to be … Jeff Anderson from Clerks
Film blog
Kevin Smith talks sex, Star Wars and Bieber at screening of Jay and Silent Bob's Super Groovy Cartoon Movie
February 2013
Kevin Smith: Clerks 3 to return as book then film
Randal and Dante, already stars of two films and an animated series, will return in a serialised book before becoming a movie, says their creator
October 2010
The 25 best comedy films of all time
Clerks: No 23 best comedy film of all time
Kevin Smith, 1994
February 2007
Clerks II
(Cert 15)
September 2006
Clerks II
Philip French: The dialogue is funny, obscene and dead-on, the film both celebrates failure and demonstrates an unsentimental compassion for the characters' sad lives.
Clerks 2
Peter Bradshaw: Some funny lines and truly outrageous setpieces.
'It's just dudes talking about sex and Star Wars'
Kevin Smith's debut, Clerks, was a huge cult hit. So when he came to make the sequel, he tells Ryan Gilbey, it was back to basics: bestiality, vomiting and really bad language.
June 2006
Clicks for credits: Fans to win Clerks II mention
Kevin Smith's Clerks II is offering permanent credits to the first 10,000 MySpace members who link the film's page to their friends list.
August 2004
Kevin Smith to follow up Clerks
After dipping his toes in the big-budget, big-star movie production pool, director Kevin Smith is returning to his no-budget roots with a sequel to his 1994 cult favourite Clerks.
June 2000
Animated Clerks fails to animate TV audiences
Just as Dogma director Kevin Smith predicted, his animated comedy, Clerks, is going out of business - after just two airings.
