With any luck, Josh Peck will soon appear totally naked with a Nike swoosh shaved into his chest hair trying to advertise sneakers. Either that or he’ll become the fourth Jonas Brother. I’m on the phone with him, and he’s in a better mood than most people are capable of - cracking...

Josh Peck, the star of the new movie The Wackness, is featured in the new issue of Playboy magazine … check out his spread: Yes … sadly Josh is fully clothed and is featured with one of those “articles” that readers of this particular magazine pretend they like to read. IR...

Back in May, I had the opportunity to sit down with director Jonathan Levine and star Josh Peck to talk about their new film The Wackness . I fell in love with this indie coming-of-age drama at Sundance. I have since seen the film three more times. You’ve probably read my gushing posting about the...

One of the films that I just won’t shut up about from this year’s Sundance Film Festival is director Jonathan Levine’s sophomore effort The Wackness , the story of a recent high school grad named Luke Shapiro, played by Josh Peck, and his drug-dealing, love-struck summer of 1994. S...

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 rathe...

The Wackness Running time 110 minutesWritten 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, ...

Oh the relief that it brings to finally see a well-cut, red band trailer for the upcoming release The Wackness . As you know, this is one of the films from this year’s Sundance film festival that has had us buzzing all year long, and it will finally hit theaters on July 3rd. Directed by Jonath...

Filed under: Comedy, Drama, Independent, Tribeca, Theatrical Reviews, Festival Reports Finally, a film for kids of the 90's! This is a hard review to write because it feels as if The Wackness was tailor-made for people like me: a male who grew up in New York City and graduated high school in 1994; t...

It must be really hard to cut a good movie trailer, especially for a bad movie. But it always amazes me when great films sometimes have such horrible movie trailers. I’ve now seen Jonathan Levine ‘s The Wackness three times. And since January the film has held strong on the list of my favorite f...

As you may already know, if you read my review, I absolutely fell in love with director Jonathan Levine’s mid-90s comedy The Wackness . Since seeing it make its world premiere on the first Saturday of the Sundance Film Festival in January, I have done everything possible to see it over and ove...