A snowy Friday night on the Lower East Side kicked off with a gathering of bodies looking for warmth at the Landmark Sunshine Cinema, where The Cinema Society and Artistry were hosting a screening of the hip zombie flick Warm Bodies. Although director and screenwriter Jonathan Levine managed to roll through with most of the Read More
In the pantheon of tastelessness designed to make you laugh at diarrhea, menstruation, masturbation, yeast infections, fellatio and worse, you can now add a stupid horror called 50/50. Artificial, irresponsible, filthy and forgettable, it knocks itself cross-eyed trying to make you roar with laughter at chemotherapy, with the nauseating Seth Rogen milking most of the yuks. But a stoner comedy about cancer? I don’t think so.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt has two expressions — sleepy and catatonic — and he wears them ragged as Adam Lerner, a 27-year-old reporter for National Public Radio stationed in Seattle who sinks into an understandable depression when malignant tumors are diagnosed on his spine and he is given only a 50/50 chance of survival. Read More
TheWackness
Running time 110 minutes
Written and directed by Jonathan Levine
Starring Josh Peck, Ben Kingsley, Olivia Thirlby, Famke Janssen, Mary-Kate Olsen
Not the least of the problems facing people who write about movies on a weekly basis is the deadlines. You can’t say, “I think I’d rather go to Read More
The Wackness
Running time 110 minutes
Written and directed by Jonathan Levine
Starring Josh Peck, Ben Kingsley, Olivia Thirlby, Famke Janssen
Jonathan Levine’s The Wackness, from his own screenplay, takes place in New York during the summer of 1994, when the newly inaugurated mayor, Rudy Giuliani, was beginning his now notorious crackdown Read More
Jonathan Levine, whose New York ’90s dramedy The Wackness is being released this weekend, has just signed on to two new projects. He’ll work on Positive, a "romantic thriller" that sounds like a slightly scarier version of Meet the Parents, and Echelon Vendetta, an adaptation of David Stone’s thriller novel about a CIA agent who Read More
Leslie Dickstein and Jonathan Levine
Met: Jan. 17, 1993
Engaged: May 24, 2001
Projected Wedding Date: Aug. 24, 2002
It’s Uptown Girl meets Long Island Guy!
Leslie Dickstein, 29, went to Spence (one year behind Gwynnie) and Calhoun. She has caramel-colored hair, a bronzed kewpie-doll face, smart clothes and expertly Read More
People are getting fatter–but their teeth are getting whiter.
Chubbiness, according to the Centers for Disease Control, now affects 40 percent of the population, as opposed to 25 percent in 1981. Based on current trends, Dr. John Foreyt of the Baylor College of Medicine in Texas has predicted that by the year 2230, every American Read More
