Writer/director John Carney knows how to make music shine in his movies. His breakthrough 2007 drama “Once” featured the Oscar-winning song “Falling Slowly”. Tunes performed by Keira Knightley and Adam Levine rocked in “Begin Again”. And “Sing Street” is one of my 20 favorite films of the past 10 years. So my expectations were high […]
Two-time Golden Globe nominee Joseph Gordon-Levitt joins Academy Award winner Jamie Foxx and Emmy winner Courtney B. Vance in the new Netflix action movie “Project Power”, which debuts this Friday. Gordon-Levitt has been an entertainment fixture since his days on TV’s “3rd Rock from the Sun”. In looking at his best film performances, I already […]
SNOWDEN stars Joseph Gordon-Levitt and is written and directed by Oliver Stone. The script is based on the books The Snowden Files: The Inside Story of the World’s Most Wanted Man by Luke Harding and Time of the Octopus by Anatoly Kucherena. The NSA’s illegal surveillance techniques are leaked to the public by one of the […]
Joseph Gordon-Levitt stars as Edward Joseph Snowden in Oliver Stone’s biopic on the infamous U.S. government contractor who, in 2013, leaked stunning, classified information from the National Security Agency regarding the organization’s monitoring of the personal lives of billions of people across the globe. Last year, Gordon-Levitt played tightrope master Philippe Petit in “The Walk”, […]
2008’s Oscar-winning documentary “Man on Wire” beautifully showcased the incredible French artist Philippe Petit, who, in 1974, defined cultural American history by walking on a wire hung between the World Trade Center Twin Towers in New York City. The story itself is remarkable, and as the Hollywood version of Petit’s feat, “The Walk”, once again […]