Hip-hop superstar Kanye West has been named the "Most Stylish Celebrity of 2011."

The fashion-forward hitmaker beat his rap collaborator Kid Cudi to take the title in the Complex magazine poll, followed by actor Ryan Gosling at three.

The top five picks are rounded out by rap newcomer A$AP Rocky and superproducer Pharrell Williams in fourth and fifth place, respectively.

Others to make it on the "25 Most Stylish Celebrities of 2011" list include: Rick Ross (8), Jay-Z (10), Justin Bieber (14), Justin Timberlake (16), Swizz Beatz (19), Joseph Gordon-Levitt and a slimmed-down Jonah Hill (22...

(500) Days Of Summer co-stars Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Zooey Deschanel have treated fans to a special duet to celebrate the end of 2011.

The actors/singers have filmed a video of themselves performing a cover of Nancy Wilson's "What Are You Doing New Year's Eve," with Gordon-Levitt on guitar and Deschanel on a ukulele.

The clip has been posted on Deschanel's blog HelloGiggles.com and is accompanied by a sweet note gushing about her friendship with and admiration for the actor.

She writes, "I have known Joe Gordon-Levitt for going on 12 years. We first met in the summer of 2000 while doin...

Two Jews on Film - By Joan Alperin Schwartz: 2011 was a year filled with very eclectic films. We had movies about the end of the world, ('Melancholia' and 'Take Shelter') traveling back in time,('Midnight In Paris') homages to the early days of film-making, ('The Artist,' 'Hugo') as well as movies about some of our favorite sports, ('Moneyball' and 'Win Win').

We found ourselves laughing hysterically at a comedy about girl bonding, ('Bridesmaids') had our hearts touched by a few family films, ('We Bought A Zoo,' 'Extremely Loud And Incredibly Close') and a couple...anything but...('Tree Of...

Some folks just can't settle down. Here are the serial daters of 2011: The celebs that hooked up with the most people!

After splitting with Penn Badgely in late 2010, Blake Lively took a tour of Hollywood's hunks. After a summer of romance with Leonardo DiCaprio, she hit it off with Green Lantern co-star Ryan Reynolds.

Scarlett Johansson dwarfs Lively's number of suitors. Her rumored boyfriends included Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Sean Penn, Kieran Culkin, and Bradley Cooper.

Bradley Cooper wasn't waiting around for Scarlett, though. He was linked to Jennifer Lopez, Olivia Wilde, Jennifer An...

The Help, The Artist and The Descendants will be the ones to beat at the 2012 Golden Globe Awards after landing four nominations each.

The Help will go head-to-head with The Descendants in the Best Motion Picture (Drama) category alongside The Ides of March, Martin Scorsese's Hugo, Steven Spielberg's War Horse, and Moneyball.

The Help also received nods in the Best Performance by an Actress (Drama) category, thanks to Viola Davis, and Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role, for Jessica Chastain and Octavia Spencer's work.

The Descendants scooped mentions for Best Performa...

Joseph Gordon-Levitt turned out to support activists at the Occupy Wall Street camp in New York on Tuesday morning after learning of the police raid of the site.

The demonstrators took up residence in Manhattan's Zuccotti Park in September to protest corporate greed and big business inequality, and the campaign has spread around the world, gaining celebrity supporters like Russell Simmons, Susan Sarandon, Alec Baldwin, Russell Brand and Kanye West, who have all been to visit the activists.

But the growing movement has been unpopular among New York officials and police officers raided the ...

Director Christopher Nolan scrapped plans to film scenes for his new Batman film amid the Occupy Wall Street protests in New York because he didn't want to "trivialize" the demonstrations.

The Dark Knight Rises star Matthew Modine admits he was thrilled to hear he would be shooting scenes in Manhattan's Zuccotti Park around the chaos of the Occupy movement, because it would aid the financially-strapped activists.

However, he thinks Nolan made the right decision not to film there. Modine tells Indiewire.com, "It seemed like a good idea to give (the protesters) an opportunity for work (as...

Chances are, if you're anything like us you can't wait until July 20, 2012 when The Dark Knight Rises comes to theaters, wrapping up Christopher Nolan's intense Batman trilogy.

The film's star, Christian Bale, was spotted donning a "new and improved" Batsuit while filming scenes on Wall Street in New York City on Monday. He was joined by co-stars Matthew Modine, who plays a corrupt cop named Nixon, and Tom Hardy who plays Bat super-villain Bane.

During the filming of one scene, several "Tumblers" - the desert-camouflaged version of the Batmobile - were spotted on the street during a key G...

Chaos descended on the streets of New York City this week as director Christopher Nolan filmed riot scenes for his new Batman movie.

Shocked bystanders watched as a crowd of extras and actors waving fake guns charged along a Manhattan road in a scene for The Dark Knight Rises, which stars Christian Bale as the Caped Crusader.

Almost 1,000 extras, along with actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt wearing a Gotham City Police Department uniform, took part in the shoot close to the city's financial district.

Filming will continue in the area over the weekend and posters have been put up around the ne...

The posters for the new movie 50/50 already give away one of the major scenes. Joseph Gordon-Levitt shaves his head on camera. He plays a man coping with a cancer in which he has a 50 percent chance of surviving. Seth Rogen plays his supportive friend, and as the film’s producer joked about the iconic scene.

“We did it twice, six months apart,” Rogen said while doing press at the Toronto International Film Festival. “Yeah, we only could do that once and we improvised it for the most part, which could’ve been the stupidest thing anyone’s ever done because we really could only do it once.”

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Hollywood doesn’t generally show young people dealing with cancer, especially not 20-somethings like Adam (Joseph Gordon-Levitt). And if it’s going to explore such a serious topic, it’s almost certainly not going to make light of the situation like “50/50.”

Adam doesn’t drink, he doesn’t smoke, and he definitely doesn’t do drugs. It comes as a huge surprise then, when he is diagnosed with a rare form of cancer, and told he has a 50 percent chance of beating it. To brave the fight, Adam must lean on his best friend Kyle (Seth Rogen), who seems more interested in picking up women and ...

Seth Rogen has had many comedy costars: Steve Carell, Paul Rudd, Jonah Hill, James Franco. Next he has a true diva. Barbra Streisand plays his mother in My Mother’s Curse. Not many people get to call Babs mom.

“I didn’t call her that that often but it was great,” Rogen said while promoting this week’s new release 50/50 at the Toronto International Film Festival. “We actually worked very well together I think. It was a lot like Joe [Gordon-Levitt] in that she really was into being a comedy team. She really embraced the idea that it was a buddy comedy with a mother and son.”

The duo goes on...

A doctor tells a young man he has cancer - a tumor. The man replies 'Tumor...Me?' The doctor says 'yes'. The man responds...'That's impossible...I don't smoke...I don't drink...I recycle.'

The young man is Adam Lerner (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) and he not only has cancer...but he has a super rare cancer...a giant tumor growing along his spine and his chances are...50-50.

So what does a person do with this kind of news? Well, writer Will Reiser, the real life person that this happened to, turned his life threatening disease, into a very funny, very touching and very beautiful movie entitled...

I recently spotted an ad for "50/50" which proudly proclaimed 'brought to you by the guys who did Superbad' – bad move. Not that there isn’t some Seth Rogen-esk humor within or some amusing levity brought to the morose subject of cancer, but the true impact behind the brilliance of "50/50" lies in its drama.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt stars as Adam, a young man who has a great life, good friends and a wonderful girlfriend. But at the early age of twenty-seven he finds his life altered virtually overnight when he is suddenly diagnosed with cancer. It’s proves to be a whole new world for Adam w...

After hearing all the hype about “Drive,” I couldn’t believe how much I hated it. It starts out promising: director Nicolas Winding Refn has some cool backseat perspectives of the driver (Ryan Gosling), and a sleek electronic soundtrack gives his shots of LA a seedy, neon glow.

However the directing quickly becomes pretentious, since Refn frequently reuses the same types of shots. Then the 80s style pop starts to feel COMPLETELY wrong, especially when you’re hit by unexpected, excessive violence on screen. These things would be more tolerable though, if the film effectively built drama...

Joseph Gordon-Levitt is releasing a new mixed media collection composed of his artistic collaborations with fans.

The actor recently launched a website through his production company hitRECord, where devotees could collectively collaborate with each other and the film star, and Gordon-Levitt was so impressed with the response, he has created RECollection: Volume 1, which includes a CD and a DVD, to showcase the remixed songs, short videos, poems and stories from over 400 fans.

He tells IndieWire.com, "It started as a creative outlet for me. I love acting, but acting in a movie is very muc...

Steven Spielberg has decided to halt the release of his upcoming Abraham Lincoln biopic until after the 2012 election, because he doesn't want the movie to be used as "political fodder".

The legendary director has hired Daniel Day-Lewis to play the 16th U.S. president, who was assassinated in 1865, in Lincoln, alongside Sally Field, Tommy Lee Jones and Joseph Gordon-Levitt.

Filming is due to kick off in Virginia this autumn, but Spielberg has now revealed fans won't be able to see the movie until after America goes to the polls for the 2012 presidential election next November .

He tel...

Up for an inspirational flick about getting over the grief of a loss of a loved one with the help of…a head-banging hooligan? Look no further then this week’s release of "Hesher," out from Lionsgate on Blu-ray/DVD starring the likes of Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Rainn Wilson and Natalie Portman. Follow the long hair strands below!

Title: "Hesher"

Grade: 1

Cast: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Rainn Wilson, Natalie Portman

Director: Spencer Susser

Rating: R

Runtime: 106 minutes

Release Company: Lionsgate

Website: www.lionsgatebluray.com

The Flick: I’m a huge fan of Joseph Gordon-Lev...

The end of the year is always the most exciting time for true movie lovers as the studios release the films they hope to compete in the race for the many awards shows that will happen early next year. This September will have some decent films to choose from (namely "Contagion" and "Drive"), but with a greater amount of less-than-impressive fare than is normally seen. Either way, this first month in the awards season will have moviegoers flocking to the cinema nearly every weekend.

September 2

Apollo 18

This horror/thriller has been called “The Blair Witch Project” set in space, and the ...

On Friday we were so close to showing you the first trailer for the third and final Batman movie directed by Christopher Nolan, The Dark Knight Rises. However, the trailer turned out to be a bootleg and was subsequentlypulled from the internet. However, now we can offer you the official trailer direct from Warner Bros.!

The trailer features a voiceover from Liam Neeson, who played Ra's Al Ghul in Batman Begins. He apparently died in the first film, but it wouldn't surprise us if he returned.

As mentioned on Friday, Gary Oldman's character Commissioner Gordon seems to...

A bootleg video of the trailer for The Dark Knight Rises has hit the web. The trailer will be seen this weekend before Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2.

There is a definite sense of finality within the trailer. Commissioner Gordon (Gary Oldman, who happens to also play Sirius Black in the Harry Potter series) is laying on a hospital bed in dire straits. He appears to be talking to Bruce Wayne (Christian Bale) and begging for the return of Batman. There is a flash of Bane (Tom Hardy) but no shot of Joseph Gordon-Levitt, who will be playing John Blake.

The Dark Knight Rises wil...

With a poster that's as shocking and funny as the film itself, the new cancer themed dramatic comedy "50/50" has a new one sheet and it's a trip indeed. The movie, which stars Joseph Gordon-Levitt as a man who finds out he has cancer, is a clever mix of serious drama with bits of humor to add levity. (See Seth Rogen!) The flick also stars Anna Kendrick as Gordon-Levitt's counselor, Bryce Dallas Howard as his girlfriend and features a stand-out performance by the mighty Anjelica Huston as his over-protective mother. (Her best work since "The Grifters!") In any case the film does bring b...

There are a lot of awesome movies coming out next summer ("Star Trek 2," "The Avengers," "The Amazing Spider-Man") but there's no doubt what the most anticipated film of 2012 is: "The Dark Knight Rises." So when word came out over the weekend that the first trailer of the film had been leaked online, the entire internet went, well, completely batsh*t.

But is the trailer a fake?

As noted by The Hollywood Reporter, the teaser trailer -- which features the words "The storm is coming to Gotham" over an image of a flock of bats careening through a thunderstorm -- gained some credence thanks t...

Losing a loved one is never easy, especially when that person is your wife or your mother. Even though everyone copes with death at their own pace, most people prefer to isolate themselves and wallow in their own misery. In Spencer Susser’s drama “Hesher,” Paul Forney (Rainn Wilson) and his son TJ (Devin Brochu) are no different. They have immersed themselves in grief since TJ’s mother was killed in a tragic car accident.

Paul and TJ have shut themselves off emotionally from everyone around them, including Paul’s mother Madeleine (Piper Laurie), who lovingly cooks and cares for the...

Joseph Gordon-Levitt seems like a clean cut gentleman these days, in movies like Inception and (500) Days of Summer. In Hesher, he plays a long haired headbanger. That is actually who he was as a teenager.

“I grew my hair long when I was like 12, 13 so that I could headbang to Metallica and Guns N’ Roses and stuff,” Gordon-Levitt said. “Then I got on a TV show and they dug my hair but then they wouldn’t let me cut it when I wanted to so I had to keep it for years, which was whatever. I can’t complain. Once I got to cut it I was relieved. By that time I was dying to cut my hair.”

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I apologize to all my faithful readers that there was no Trailer Talk column last week. Between my coverage of IFF Boston and a trip to Chicago, unfortunately it was just not in the cards. I did see some great flicks though at IFF Boston and met some interesting filmmakers. If you haven’t already checked out the coverage, definitely read my reviews and watch my interviews.

Of the movies that came out last week, I had already seen Jodie Foster’s third directorial effort “The Beaver,” starring Mel Gibson. In his role as the mentally ill Walter Black, Gibson puts forth a very raw perform...

'Hesher' directed by Spencer Susser stars Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Hesher. There are several things that Hesher likes a lot, loud music, pornography and burning stuff to the ground. He brings all of his favorite things into the lives of 13 year old TJ (Devin Brochu) and his father Paul (Rainn Wilson) when he unexpectedly takes up residence in their garage, uninvited.

Told through the eyes of TJ, HESHER is a dark fairy tale about an eccentric unhinged drifter who appears out of nowhere to help a struggling family deal with loss. TJ and his father are simply going through the motions of th...

"Twilight" star Anna Kendrick posed for photographs while attending the "Time 100" gala in New York City yesterday. The actress wore a shimmering black dress with a plunging neckline.

She stars in the upcoming film "50/50." Joseph Gordon-Levitt stars in the comedy about a young man's struggle with discovering that he has cancer.

The actress has been busy making the rounds at New York's Tribeca Film Festival.

Check out more photos of Anna here!

Oscar winner Marion Cotillard will play high-powered socialite Miranda Tate in the latest Batman film.

She and her Inception co-star Joseph Gordon-Levitt signed to reteam with director Christopher Nolan last year, but details of their characters in The Dark Knight Rises have been kept under wraps - until now.

Speculation suggested Cotillard would portray Talia Al-Ghul and Gordon-Levitt The Holiday Killer, but now it appears both will play straightforward characters.

According to CinemaBlend.com, Cotillard's Miranda Tate is a Wayne Enterprises board member eager to help Batman's alter-ego...

Riddle me this: who is Joseph Gordon-Levitt playing in next year's surefire mega-blockbuster "The Dark Knight Rises?"

After all, ever since it was announced that JGL be reuniting with "Inception" director Christoper Nolan, speculation has centered on the idea that he would be playing The Riddler opposite Christian Bale's Batman -- except Nolan has denied that The Riddler would even be in the movie. So what's the answer to to geekdom's most confusing conundrum?

Well, now we know: according to Variety, Gordon-Levitt will indeed be playing a villain -- but it will be The Holiday Killer, not ...