Whether he’s playing Silent Bob, second fiddle to a foul-mouthed, sex-and-drugs-obsessed Jay, or taking on Catholic dogma in the film of the same name, writer/director Kevin Smith (“Chasing Amy,” “Mallrats,” “Dogma”) may not be the most family-friendly of filmmakers. Take his recent endeavor, which was formerly named (rather self-descriptively) as “Zack and Miri Make a…

48 years ago, there was a national Presidential debate between John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon. Those who heard it on the radio believed that Nixon won. Those who saw it on TV hailed Kennedy as the winner. Kennedy then became the last sitting U.S. Senator to win an election until this year. Now here…

If Sarah Palin’s recent shout out to the well-liked TV comedy star who portrays her on Saturday Night Live is any indication, the VP candidate must be feeling pretty confident about her chances of serving her country. At a rally in Columbus, OH, the LA Times reported the governor saying she “had a little advice…

Sure, fundamentalists like Movieguide’s Ted Baer have long been opposed to the evils of the Harry Potter book series, but would you believe that renowned atheist RIchard Dawkins agrees with him? In fact, the author of “The God Delusion” dislikes children stories that incorporate myth of any kind–so much so that he is taking a…

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