first film, but it feels like it, with its emphasis on coming-of-age at a specific time in a specific place: Subject matter that has fueled more than a couple of debut novels and movies. It's set in ...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Actor Josh Peck has spent much of his teenage and young adult life in front of television cameras portraying the chubby, goofy character Josh in the Nickelodeon cable TV series ...

That first sight of Ben Kingsley smoking a bowl will burn into your memory. You may be watching "The Wackness," but it's hard to forget that this is Gandhi putting Bic to bong in Jonathan Levine's ...

MIKE PESCA, host: The summer of 1994 should have been a good one for Luke Shapiro, the main character in the new movie, "The Wackness." Luke is a hip-hop fan in New York, and New York is the capital ...

The film "Moneyball" (2011) was almost an entirely different movie than the Hollywood hit that made its way into theaters two weeks ago. In 2009, production on the movie was axed after director Steven ...

Until I saw Mary-Kate Olsen have sex in a phone booth with Ben Kingsley, I didn't realize “The Wackness” was a horror movie. Up until then, it had been only a horrible movie, a status it resumed ...

It’s 1994 in New York City, where hip-hop-loving loner Luke Shapiro, fresh out of high school, is a very mobile pot dealer, dispensing his wares out of an Italian ices cart or his backpack. Dr.

According to promotional materials for The Wackness, writer/director Jonathan Levine aimed to tell the story of a watershed era. The film is set in 1994 when Tupac and the Notorious B.I.G. were the ...

If you're looking for something completely different, as Monty Python used to say, prepare yourself for The Wackness. Our L.A. writer Nancy Mills got an early look at this low-budget film, which won ...