# Kevin Smokler

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Episode 478: But I'm a Cheerleader (1999)

A high school cheerleader faces her sexuality and finds love at a gay conversion camp. Author Kevin Smokler joins us to chat about deriving humor from evil, finding a script in a friend's car, and a particularly dangerous matchbook. Then we find out if But I'm a Cheerleader stands the Test of Ti…

Why a “Shelter in Place Film Festival” beats bingeing video right now

“Binge watching is designed to make time disappear. A home film festival is designed to be time well spent.”  –Kevin Smokler Kevin Smokler (@weegee) is a writer, public speaker, critic, and author of Brat Pack America and Practical Classics. He speaks on the future of media and culture and his wri…

Why 1980s coming-of-age movies matter

“John Hughes, and really all of best 1980s teen movies, were saying that the stories of teenagers are the stories of all of us. They have the same human need and longing that the stories of adults have.” —Kevin Smokler In this episode of Deviate, Rolf discusses classic coming-of-age films with Kev…

Kevin Smokler on 'Real Women Have Curves'

For his latest book, BREAK THE FRAME, culture writer Kevin Smokler interviewed 24 prominent female filmmakers about their rich and varied careers. One of those filmmakers, Patricia Cardoso, directed the 2002 movie that introduced the world to a 17-year-old America Ferrera: REAL WOMEN HAVE CURVES. D…

Episode 503: A Few Good Men (1992)

A team of lawyers defend two Marines accused of murder. Special guest Kevin Smokler joins us to chat about the smoothest-talking screenwriter, sexual tension that goes nowhere, and a bar that only serves one beer. YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH as we see if A Few Good Men stands the Test of Time.

Episode 503: A Few Good Men (1992)

A team of lawyers defend two Marines accused of murder. Special guest Kevin Smokler joins us to chat about the smoothest-talking screenwriter, sexual tension that goes nowhere, and a bar that only serves one beer. YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH as we see if A Few Good Men stands the Test of Time.

Episode #447: 'Spacewoman' with Kevin Smokler

We’re capping off a month at looking at different films directed by women with Hannah Berryman’s documentary, Spacewoman. Kevin Smokler, author of Breaking the Frame: Conversations with Women Filmmakers joins us to talk about this close look at the stellar career of astronaut Eileen Collins, the fi…

Kevin Smokler

Smokler is also the editor of “Bookmark Now: Writing in Unreaderly Times”  and has been called a “publishing visionary” by the Huffington Post.

Summer Of Soundtrack Episode 1: Hughes Highlights

We're declaring 2026 the Summer Of Soundtrack, contemplating film soundtracks across the decades -- and we're starting with 10 selections from the 1980s John Hughes teen oeuvre, some you'll remember and some you'll forget...or regret. As we contemplate the definitive Hughes tunes (or, for one of us…

The Frank MacKay Show - Kevin Smokler

Kevin Smokler joins Frank Mackay on this episode of The Frank Mackay Show!