Note: This review was originally published on January 20th 2013 during the Sundance Film Festival. We are reprinting it for the film's theatrical release. Movie fans have long known that Joseph Gordon-Levitt is a great actor. With Don Jon, the world will now see that he’s a talented writer and director too. The film, his…
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Over the last few years, the world has fallen in love with Joseph Gordon-Levitt, the actor. This October, you'll fall in love with him as a director too. His first film, Don Jon, hits theaters October 18. It features the actor as a young ladies man from Jersey, with one major problem in life: he's…
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Briefly: Another Sundance hit is prepping for a theatrical bow. Relativity has just announced an October 18 wide release for Don Jon (formerly Don Jon's Addiction), Joseph Gordon-Levitt's crowd-pleasing feature directorial debut. The deal was one of the biggest at this year's Sundance, so the splashy rollout shouldn't come as much of a surprise. Don Jon faces…
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Much like John Carter of Mars became John Carter, Don Jon's Addiction is now officially Don Jon. Writer/director/star Joseph Gordon-Levitt took to Facebook Friday to reveal he decided to change the title of his hilarious online-porn comedy and, dropped a few news images on us as well. That's one above and, after the jump, you…
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Seeing Don Jon's Addiction at Sundance was quite an experience, in part because of all the porn. The film, written and directed by Joseph Gordon-Levitt, follows a character (played by the director) who is addicted to online pornography. Despite being able to lure very attractive women home for sex, he prefers porn. In fact, the…
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Any film fan should make it a point to attend the Sundance Film Festival at least once. Words can hardly describe the beauty of Park City, the camaraderie of the attendees, the smooth running machine that plays dozens of movies a day on screens all over town. And those movies. Oh, those movies. Some of the best…
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Talk about knocking it out of the park on the first try. Plenty of deals have come out of Sundance in the past few days, but the biggest one yet -- and indeed, one of the biggest ever in the festival's history -- is for Don Jon's Addiction, the feature directorial debut of Joseph Gordon-Levitt.…
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While the competition and spotlight films at Sundance are usually where the best of the fest reside, the big names are in the premiere categories. 2013 is no exception. Among the highly anticipated films that will premiere at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival are the Ashton Kutcher Steve Jobs biopic jOBS; Richard Linklater's trilogy-closing love story Before…
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