Kevin Smith appeared on my FYP recently spruiking Wrong Reasons, a punk rock comedic crime caper, made in 2022 but recently finding wider distribution across streaming platforms in the US, UK and Australia.
Directed by Josh Roush, who has worked on a number of Kevin Smith behind the scenes docos, Wrong Reasons tells the story of Australian Punk Rocker Kat Oden (played by Liv Roush who I presume is the directors wife), who is kidnapped by don’t call it a bear mask wearing James (Michael Parks number 1 son James Parks) who hopes to cleanse Kat of her illicit substance addiction so she can change the world through her music.
Kind of like Bill and Ted if Rufus had kidnapped the boys and chained them to a bed rather than giving them a magical telephone box.
Smith’s Hollywood Babble-on co-host Ralph Garman plays a detective on the case who seeks to commodify all the attention the case is getting into a network news career. Smith himself plays a kind of stoned version of TV camera man Kenny from Scream. Aussies should keep their eyes peeled for Kim Wilson, Matt Passmore and Darren Hayes who all make cameo appearances.
This has some funny moments, with a punk rock authenticity, and some of the commentary around the commercialisation of tragedy is spot on, but the idea of a 40 year old white male being some fountain of knowledge, totally plutonic, punk rock mentor to a just out of her teens prodigy is at best cringe which fulfilment and at worst completely ick (especially factoring in the kidnap angle).
Kevin Smith appeared on my FYP recently spruiking Wrong Reasons, a punk rock comedic crime caper, made in 2022 but recently finding wider distribution across streaming platforms in the US, UK and Australia.
Directed by Josh Roush, who has worked on a number of Kevin Smith behind the scenes docos, Wrong Reasons tells the story of Australian Punk Rocker Kat Oden (played by Liv Roush who I presume is the directors wife), who is kidnapped by don’t call it a bear mask wearing James (Michael Parks number 1 son James Parks) who hopes to cleanse Kat of her illicit substance addiction so she can change the world through her music.
Kind of like Bill and Ted if Rufus had kidnapped the boys and chained them to a bed rather than giving them a magical telephone box.
Smith’s Hollywood Babble-on co-host Ralph Garman plays a detective on the case who seeks to commodify all the attention the case is getting into a network news career. Smith himself plays a kind of stoned version of TV camera man Kenny from Scream. Aussies should keep their eyes peeled for Kim Wilson, Matt Passmore and Darren Hayes who all make cameo appearances.
This has some funny moments, with a punk rock authenticity, and some of the commentary around the commercialisation of tragedy is spot on, but the idea of a 40 year old white male being some fountain of knowledge, totally plutonic, punk rock mentor to a just out of her teens prodigy is at best cringe which fulfilment and at worst completely ick (especially factoring in the kidnap angle).
