| | Amazon.com: An Askew View: The Films of Kevin Smith: Books: John Kenneth Muir (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) |
 | | Taking its title from Smith's View Askew production company, Muir's latest offering is a guided tour of the iconic New Jersey filmmaker's cinematic oeuvre, from short synopses of Smith's films to behind-the-scenes stories of how they were made and how Smith himself has evolved. |
 | | Muir (a contributor to Cinescape and Filmfax) creates a compelling-and somewhat inspirational-portrait of Smith, who shot to indie-fame with his 1994 debut Clerks, which Smith financed with his own credit cards and shot after hours at a local minimart, in part because he thought his friends were funny and wondered if others would think so. |
 | | Regrettably, the author sometimes slips his personal feelings when providing the View Askew timeline, which disrupts the flow of the book and loses some of the objectivity of this historian. |
| www.amazon.com /Askew-View-Films-Kevin-Smith/dp/1557835861 (1702 words) |