Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Turbo and Joey, a Web Series About Jersey Guys Trying to Make it in Hollywood

Half of the word "typecast" is "cast." Versatility may be prized at Juilliard, but selling your brand is the real key to Hollywood success. Case in point: Fast-talking, tanned and toned Jersey natives Jeremy Luke and Joey Russo began filming short videos based on their lives as struggling actors in ... More >>

Don Jon Review: Joseph Gordon-Levitt's Impressive Writing-Directing Debut Examines Porn Addiction

10 People Who Are Transforming Hollywood

This year's People issue celebrates the 56 Angelenos we find most intriguing. Among those 56 are fashionistas, musicians and novelists -- and, of course, the movers-and-shakers in Hollywood. Check out all of our People 2013 profiles Their influence can be felt on both the screen and behind the ... More >>

Anna Kendrick: She's Just a Girl and She's on Fire

One of the fascinating Angelenos featured in L.A. Weekly's People 2013 issue. Check out our entire People 2013 issue here. See also: *Outtakes from our Anna Kendrick People Issue interview From a booth at the restaurant Birds, actress Anna Kendrick eyes a TV commercial across the room. "How about t ... More >>

Charlie Sheen Is Winning with Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III

Sheen's new film, made with childhood friend Roman Coppola, was his first acting gig after his notorious meltdown

Conjoined III: Chet Zar's Annual Art Show Includes Busts of Abraham Lincoln and Raoul Duke

See also: *Beavis & Butthead in Real Life, the Viral Hit Sculpture, in 'Conjoined II' Show *5 Artsy Things to Do in L.A. This Week Abraham Lincoln's head glowed through the gallery window. Even from a distance, the bust is impressive. Large and swathed in light, the piece seemed to beckon, "Just w ... More >>

Sundance 2013: Sex with James Franco, Sultry Scarlett Johansson, Daniel Radcliffe's Jew-Fro, and a Great Film From Jordan

In his brief remarks before the first public screening of the 2013 Sundance Film Festival, Robert Redford praised the Sundance Institute's ongoing filmmaker development labs as "our core," noting that the festival itself was conceived "to create an audience for the filmmakers in our lab program."

Looper Review: Bruce Willis and Joseph Gordon-Levitt Make Time Travel Fun Again

From Trainspotting to Mean Girls: Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

Our weekly list of special event movies to check out this week: Thursday, Sept. 13 Comedian Mike Birbiglia has what appears to be a permanent befuddled expression that is both self-deprecating and endearing. Same can be said about his feature debut, Sleepwalk With Me. Although the semi-autobiograp ... More >>

Top 12 LGBT Movies You Need To See, as Picked by Film Fest Organizers

Outfest, L.A.'s gay and lesbian film festival, ended on Sunday, reminding us that films about the LGBT experience serve an important role in the community, from teaching teenage boys and girls that it's alright to kiss other boys and girls, respectively, to connecting social activists with images su ... More >>

Sunset 5 Theater Closes

The end of an era, and what it means for the L.A. art house landscape

Joseph Gordon-Levitt's The Tiny Book of Tiny Stories: Inception Star's Crowdsourced hitRECord Website Becomes a Book

It takes six seconds to read a short tragedy about an upbeat orange and a suicidal egg in The Tiny Book of Tiny Stories: Volume I. One of 33 bite-sized narratives culled from nearly 8,600 submissions to actor-slash-crowd-sourcing impresario Joseph Gordon-Levitt's hitRECord website, the tale is told ... More >>

Best Posts of the Week

We'll tell you exactly how they make us feel​Who needs Snakes On A Plane when you've got a Cobra Starship? This week in his kill-yourself-hilarious column Why This Song Sucks Shea Serrano explored the slick New York band's somehow-popular single "You Make Me Feel," proving why it blows using s ... More >>

50/50 USC Event With Seth Rogen Asks the Question: Can Cancer and Humor Co-Exist?

​ A most unusual movie screening took place recently at the Landmark Theaters in the Westside Pavilion: a screening of the movie 50/50 that was co-organized by the USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center and Hospital. The event addressed the issues of cancer treatment and humor as a cancer-fig ... More >>

Joseph Gordon-Levitt - Orpheum Theatre - 10-10-11

Timothy NorrisJoseph Gordon Levitt discussing the nature of love with Neil Patrick Harris​Joseph Gordon-Levitt hitRECord Fall Formal The Orpheum Theatre October 10, 2011 No one was really quite sure how this was going to work. All people could be sure of was that Joseph-Gordon Levitt had buil ... More >>

50/50 Review

Best Above-Average Joe

Elektra Luxx

First Snapshots: Yoko Ono meets Lady Gaga (and Sonic Youth's Thurston & Kim, and the RZA, and Mike Watt, and Princess Leia, and many others) at the Orpheum in LA

Gustavo TurnerYoko Ono and Lady Gaga frolic on a piano at the Orpheum Theatre in LA​We told you this one was going to be special. Stay tuned for our full review, but Saturday night's brilliant show/tribute to Yoko Ono at the Orpheum brought some extremely special moments with Tune-Yards, the ... More >>

This weekend: Plastic Ono Band, Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers, School of Seven Bells, the Avett Brothers, Fountains of Wayne

Yoko Ono​John Lennon would have turned 70 next week, and among the events celebrating the legendary Beatle are two shows this weekend featuring a reconstituted Plastic Ono Band, the loose collective of musicians Lennon assembled 40 years ago. His widow Yoko Ono and son Sean Lennon (the musica ... More >>

Letters: Brothel Moms and Daughters

Inception's Kiss

And other memories of summer

Guest Blog: Five Great Kenny Loggins Movie Moments by '(500) Days Co-Writer Scott Neustadter

Editor's note: Screenwriter Scott Neustadter struck gold in 2009 with his script for (500) Days of Summer, which he co-wrote with Michael H. Weber. The film, shot in downtown Los Angeles, stars Zooey Deschanel and Joseph Gordon-Levitt; viewers watch the rise and fall of the pair's relationship throu ... More >>

Guest Blogger: '(500) Days' Co-Writer Scott Neustadter's Five Favorite Movie Montages

Editor's note: Screenwriter Scott Neustadter struck gold in 2009 with his script for (500) Days of Summer, which he co-wrote with Michael H. Weber. The film, shot in downtown Los Angeles, stars Zooey Deschanel and Joseph Gordon-Levitt; viewers watch the rise and fall of the pair's relationship throu ... More >>

Guest Blogger: (500) Days Co-Writer Scott Neustadter on Talking Heads' Stop Making Sense

Editor's note: Screenwriter Scott Neustadter struck gold in 2009 with his script for (500) Days of Summer, which he co-wrote with Michael H. Weber. The film, shot in downtown Los Angeles, stars Zooey Deschanel and Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and viewers watch the rise and fall of the pair's relationship t ... More >>

Guest Blogger: '(500) Days of Summer' Co-Screenwriter Scott Neustadter on Music & Film

By Scott Neustadter​ Editor's note: Screenwriter Scott Neustadter struck gold in 2009 with his script for (500) Days of Summer, which he co-wrote with Michael H. Weber. The film, shot in downtown Los Angeles, stars Zooey Deschanel and Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and viewers watch the rise and fall ... More >>

(500) Days of Summer Screenwriter Scott Neustadter To Guest Blog for West Coast Sound This Week

If you've seen last year's hit film (500) Days of Summer, you know that music plays a central role in the story; as in most relationships, songs are connectors that glue a couple together, that reveal something important about personality and taste. For Scott Neustadter, who co-wrote the acclaim ... More >>

Movie Reviews: Broken Embraces, Paa, A Single Man, Armored

Also, Four Seasons Lodge, the Vicious Kind, The Lovely Bones and more

Lights, Camera, IKEA! Burbank Store Attracts Filmmakers

Today's L.A. Times' biz section touts a new and improbable addition to Burbank's media studios -- the IKEA store on San Fernando Road. After listing some odd and varied appearances that IKEA made in the news during the past year from China to Scotland, writer Dan Neil looks at the role of IKEA's Bur ... More >>

The Kitchen Economist: Instead of Fancy Culinary Gadgets, Just Use a Brick

Photo credit: SarahoftheorientA great panini press​The next time you're trolling the aisles of cooking supply stores, coveting that pricey panini press (the good ones can set you back $150) or even a retro bacon press (more like $10), consider taking a page from your grandmother's book (or you ... More >>

Movie Reviews: Death In Love, 500 Days of Summer, Severed Ways

Also, The Poker House, The Queen and I, and more

Spike Lee's Miracle at St. Anna: Cheesy

Buffalo-soldier mozzarella

Stop-Loss: Coming Home Again

History imitates history onscreen

Look Out — It’s a Kazan-vilanch!

What to do the week of March 28-April 3

Director Kimberly Pierce at Stop-Loss Screening

The Lookout: Look Both Ways

Scott Frank’s tender, twisty heist movie scores

O.C. Confidential

Rian Johnson’s suburban noir

2005 in Film

Notes on the pleasures of kiddie moviegoing and weeping into your stir-fry

Nightranger

Despair Breeds Hope

Gregg Araki’s Mysterious Skin

Form and Dysfunction

Neil LaBute’s The Shape of Things and Jordan Melamed’s Manic