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When thinking of the most unnecessary Blu-ray release, Kevin Smith's 1994 comedy Clerks immediately comes to mind.

So you're standing in line at the Whole Foods and in front of you is a pair of stoned thirtysomething guys, jibber-jabbering about vasectomies, angry Jesus and Stalin's secret monkey army.

Hey everyone. Capone in Chicago here. Okay, I'm trying something a little different with this column, but give me a minute to make my case, not that I need to; my column, my rules.

Our reviews of Clerks and Clerks: The Animated Series are also available. I'm not even supposed to be here today! It's been 15 years since Kevin Smith's low-budget slacker comedy took the indie film world by storm, which means it's triple-dip time! Clerks arrives on Blu-ray, much to the surprise of Kevin himself, with a few tweaks beyond the Clerks ...

Kevin Smith Collection - Blu-ray - Buy from Amazon This week two Kevin Smith films, Clerks and Chasing Amy , make their debut on Blu-ray. They are available individually , or as part of a box set .

I remember when Clerks was announced. It was a Sundance favorite and trailered along with Pulp Fiction .

To borrow a line from former DVDFile reviewer Dan Ramer, Kevin Smith amuses me. He always has and he's remained a director I've faithfully watched grow and mature over the past 15 years since his unforgettable 1994 independent feature film debut, Clerks.

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Kevin Smith was one of the pioneers of 90's cinema. His low budget, lowbrow comedies paved the way for a lot of what we are seeing today.

Kevin Smith is one of us. Yes, that's right...one of us. He's not a Francis Ford Coppola or a Martin Scorcese, but a guy from New Jersey that decided to take a risk and make little movie called "Clerks". It paid off.

For two hours, Kevin Smith kept me waiting for his phone call. Two hours of his assistant checking in, letting me know he's on a very important conference call, telling me that ol' Silent Bob hasn't forgotten about me.

So it's the mid '90s. I'm in film school. It's a heady time. I'm all hopped up on Kieslowski and Bergman, preaching the virtues of the Decalogue and the five-hour version of Fanny and Alexander and stuff like that.

Vampire movies can be hit or miss with may people. Either the vamp-action is not enough, or the story is ridiculous.

Kevin Smith emerged in the first half of the '90s and became a legend. With films like Clerks , Mallrats and Chasing Amy -- all of which intertwined each others' subplots and characters -- Smith became film's grunge-era equivalent of Kurt Cobain.

LESS than five minutes into our interview, film director Kevin Smith tells me about the first time he had sex with his wife.

The king of stoner moviemakers, Kevin Smith, never really smoked much marijuana until Seth Rogen talked him into it last summer, he says.

Writer and director Kevin Smith in 2004. The filmmaker's second book, based on a series of podcasts, is hitting shelves.

Writing this column has its perks, but none better than the treatment afforded the media at the annual opening of Universal's Halloween Horror Nights.

For a filmmaker whose work has always stood out thanks to its dialogue, it should come as little surprise that Monmouth County native Kevin Smith has been able to forge a side career for himself by simply, well, talking.

That Patrick Swayze line, from the movie "Road House," has been repeated many times over the past two decades, often in jest.