Kevin Moderates The Battlestar Galactica Panel – Part ONE
Kevin Moderates The Battlestar Galactica Panel – Part TWO
Kevin Moderates The Battlestar Galactica Panel – Part THREE

One of the highlights of this event was being part of the induction ceremony of Kevin Smith into the 501st Legion as a “friend of the Legion”! One of our members made a short speech and we presented Mr Smith with a nice plaque, which he commented on about how our plaque was actually nicer and better quality than many of the “big” awards he had won in the past.

7. Dogma (1999)

As helpful supernatural beings go, they don’t get much more heaven-sent than Chris Rock’s “forgotten apostle” Rufus, who literally falls out of the sky just as Linda Fiorentino decides to pack up her noble quest and go home. Rufus’ powers are limited to reading minds and revealing Jay’s embarrassing masturbatory secrets, but as a personal friend of both God and Jesus (”Nigga owes me 12 bucks!”), he’s a mouthpiece for Kevin Smith’s typically talky mission statement that, instead of beliefs, “It’s better to have ideas… Life should be malleable and progressive. Working from idea to idea permits that.” Rock’s character—a martyr who was “bludgeoned to death by huge fucking rocks,” yet was left out of the Bible for being black—is less a magical savior than a down-to-earth human link to the divine, but with nothing more than a few well-timed speeches, he gives Fiorentino the strength and motivation to carry on, saving the world from the Apocalypse in the process.