Kevin Smith launches new talk show, frees movies from the tyranny of criticism
Providing one of those rare special occasions to hear Kevin Smith talk, Hulu has enlisted the soon-to-be-retired filmmaker to do what he has always preferred, even while ostensibly making his own films: offering commentary on other people's movies via windy, excitable dialogue. Smith will host the new series Spoilers, a half-hour talk show that finds him taking a studio audience along to this summer's biggest films—"on opening day, none of this early bullshit, ain’t doing it like those critics, doing it legit," as Smith puts it in this Wired interview, in keeping with his oft-repeated-since-everyone-hated-Cop Out assertions that critics should have to pay for his movies if they're just going to be jerks who find fault with them.