Johnny Knoxville
Movie Review: Jackass — Best and Last
3 stars out of 5I said basically everything I wanted to say about the Jackass franchise four years ago in my review of Jackass Forever. Since then, Johnny Knoxville has turned up as a host on the unsuccessful series Prank Panel and also the reboot Fear Factor: House of Fear, and starred in the streaming […]
Movie Review: Jackass Forever
3.5 stars out of 5 It’s not that I was opposed to Jackass; I just never tuned in. I certainly noticed the show’s influence on my young friend [TRIGGER WARNING: obscure name-dropping], then-aspiring filmmaker Van Neistat. I dug the Minutemen song they used as theme music. Names seeped into my awareness: Johnny Knoxville, Steve-O, Wee […]
Movie Review: Action Point
2.5 stars out of 5 I’m a fair-weather fan of Johnny Knoxville, but this movie was on my radar because of its loose connection to Vernon, New Jersey’s infamous Action Park (where my friend Therese used to work). What sealed my decision to see it was noticing that the writers were John Altschuler and Dave […]
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