He champions younger filmmakers whom he says succeed in subversion, including Johnny Knoxville and Todd Phillips.

WSJ: John Waters

Owens has a team of deputies, boosted by the addition of Dinkum (Johnny Knoxville), whose barn houses a museum of lethal hardware.

NEWYORKER: The Evil That Men Do

Johnny Knoxville gets unaccountably prominent billing for little more than an extended cameo as a guy named Dinkum, a screwy gun nut with a penchant for cavalier headgear.

CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

The villain has a squadron of evil henchmen (led by Peter Stormare), while the sheriff has his deputies on hand, plus a local gun nut (Johnny Knoxville) whose treasured possessions prove to be extremely useful.

NEWYORKER: The Last Stand