Measured heads prevail in a news cycle that finds men’s rights activists celebrating a butchered, illogical cut of Star Wars: The Last Jedi simply because all of the women have been removed. Enter Joseph Gordon-Levitt, who’s here not to respond to that particular piece of news (there’s only one way to respond, after…
For Star Wars: The Force Awakens, director J.J. Abrams pretty gave a cameo to every famous person who asked for one, going so far as to make his old Felicity buddy Greg Grunberg an ace X-Wing pilot with multiple lines and a surprisingly extensive backstory. It make sense, then, that Star Wars: The Last Jedi director…
Describing Amazon’s new show Comrade Detective as “high-concept” would probably be appropriate. At its simplest, Comrade Detective is a Romanian buddy-cop comedy presented as Cold War-era pro-communist propaganda that is being dubbed into English by A-list voice talent including Channing Tatum, Joseph Gordon-Levitt,…
In the universe of Amazon’s new satirical cop show, Comrade Detective was an extremely popular Cold War-era TV series in Romania that Channing Tatum discovered and overdubbed in English so he could introduce it to U.S. viewers, with Tatum himself, Joseph Gordon Levitt, and Nick Offerman providing the voices. In our…
As that headline up above suggests, Amazon’s latest new show, Comrade Detective, is kind of hard to describe. Shot as a 1980s period piece, the show presents itself as a Romanian cop show—complete with established Romanian stars Florin Piersic Jr. and Corneliu Ulici as the detectives—which has then been dubbed over by…
It’s Friday, so we’re ready to take a load off and celebrate the thwarting of the repeal of the Affordable Care Act. And what better way to kick up our heels than to revel in the news that professional charmers Channing Tatum and Joseph Gordon-Levitt are going to combine their powers to put on what could possibly be…
In Scenic Routes, Mike D’Angelo looks at key scenes, explaining how they work and what they mean.
My World Of Flops is Nathan Rabin’s survey of books, television shows, musical releases, or other forms of entertainment that were financial flops, critical failures, or lack a substantial cult following.
A quick look back at 2016 reveals just how contentious the year was, from the all too real knock-down drag-out battle of the presidential race, to the more manufactured drama of the latest trompe l’oeil/viral meme à la The Dress. It seemed like everyone was taking a stance and defending it vehemently, whether it was…
It’s a good day for handsome, lonely dudes floating around in space, just waiting for someone to rescue them with an EVA mission of love. Hot on the announcement of Aaron Paul’s new movie Android—about an astronaut who tries to build robot doubles of his lost loved ones—Deadline reports that Joseph Gordon-Levitt has…
Laura Poitras’ Citizenfour caught audiences off guard when it unexpectedly appeared a couple of years ago. For one thing, few people were aware that a documentary filmmaker had been present when former NSA contractor Edward Snowden met with journalists from The Guardian, leaking classified documents that revealed the…
Pssst. Don’t look now, but that guy over there in the snazzy suit playing the drum solo in the middle of a subway station platform is Joseph Gordon-Levitt. Yeah, the one from 3rd Rock From The Sun and Inception. No, really. In addition to a thriving film career, which includes playing NSA whistle-blower Edward Snowden…
Much like an actual employee of the NSA, anyone watching this new trailer for Oliver Stone’s Snowden will have to sift through a lot of distracting noise if they want to get to the real information. For one thing, Joseph Gordon-Levitt is quickly proving himself to be the new Johnny Depp, but instead of putting on a…
The Edward Snowden leak was so shocking in both the volume and the nature of the information revealed that it practically screamed out for Oliver Stone to film a docudrama about the incident. And now the trailer for that docudrama, Snowden, is here.
Just a day after New Line Cinema announced that it was hiring Final Destination 5 and The Thing (2011) screenwriter Eric Heisserer to pen the script for its adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s Sandman, long-attached star and producer Joseph Gordon-Levitt has announced that he’s dropping out of the project.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s long-in-the-works adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s Sandman has finally settled on a screenwriter. According to The Hollywood Reporter, horror scribe Eric Heisserer—whose resume is filled with genre reboots, remakes, and sequels like A Nightmare On Elm Street, The Thing, and Final Destination 5—has…
Apparently sick of all these “anti-heroes” or “conflicted figures” that are so in vogue these days, Joseph Gordon-Levitt is gearing up for some good old-fashioned cinematic bigot-bashing. The Looper star is teaming up with Amazon for an adaptation of the story of K Troop, the U.S. Army unit that worked to stamp out…
While Hollywood has been churning out a couple movie musicals a year ever since Chicago hit it big, they almost always tend to be big screen adaptations of existing Broadway musicals. Now, however, Channing Tatum and Joseph Gordon-Levitt are teaming up to give the people what they really want: An original, R-rated…
Ever since debuting as a background Frackle (that’s Henson-speak for anonymous monster) on The Great Santa Claus Switch back in 1970, Gonzo has slowly grown into one of the most complex characters in the Muppets’ ranks. Although The Muppet Show presented him as a daredevil from the very beginning, he had a strange…
Say what you will about Lip Sync Battle and the Jimmy Fallon-hosted Tonight Show that spawned it, but sometimes it’s just really cathartic to watch Joseph Gordon-Levitt put on a fun outfit and dance around. That was the case on last night’s Lip Sync Battle, which pitted Gordon-Levitt against his Night Before co-star…
