Orlando Sentinel (Free subscription) | 09/01/2008
So, which Nickelodeon star had the better summer at the box office, Josh Peck, whose The Wackness won mixed-to-positive reviews and has been in theaters for two months? Or Drake Bell, whose abomination of a summer comedy, College, a bad...
Times Online (Free subscription) | 08/28/2008
Josh Peck has a motto: “Drop the robe, and hope that when it falls the world doesn’t fall with it.” Admittedly, it’s not that catchy, but it was an immeasurable help to the 21-year-old former teen TV star (of the hugely successful Drake & Josh) during his first screen sex scene, in the New York-set coming of age movie The Wackness.
FLiXER: Entertainment Industry News (Free subscription) | 10/08/2008
THE WACKNESS A film review by David N. Butterworth Copyright 2008 David N. Butterworth *** (out of ****) "I see the dopeness in everything, and you just see the wackness." --Olivia Thirlby to Josh Peck in "The Wackness." Part drug pusher's dream vacation, part buddy movie, part coming-of-age like story, "The Wackness" is as wacky as it is wonderful, a sepia-toned love letter to NYC punctuated...
ONE (Free subscription) | yesterday
... for ONE at the World Builds concert.” You know, invited through one of those ONE emails from Josh Peck that always make me think he’s writing JUST to me (One to One). But Stan went along with it, partly because he knows our kids LOVE Jars of Clay and Switchfoot and his wife LOVES Third Day. And because we all support the ONE campaign. So we signed up, and showed up! ONE sent us talking...
Download Unlimited TV Show Movies (Free subscription) | 10/04/2008
... hosts the show, while at the same time being in the sketches along with her co-stars (Drake Bell, Josh Peck, Nancy Sullivan). The basis of The Amanda Show is about her doing a sketch show along with Penelope Taint who is her #1 fan. Penelope would do anything to speak to or meet Amanda. Every time Penelope gets close to doing so, her plans are destroyed. Welcome to The Amanda Show...
Popdirt.com (Free subscription) | 09/25/2008
Miranda Cosgrove posted highlights of her and 'Drake and Josh' star Josh Peck backstage at the Kids' Choice Awards UK 2008 in London, England on September 13th at ExCeL. The 'iCarly' star went home...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 09/13/2008
... planned event.The WacknessParty like it's 1994 with, er, Ben Kingsley. His stoner shrink and Josh Peck's "mad depressed" young dealer make the least likely buddy pairing of the year, in this likeable New York coming of ager.
Orlando Sentinel (Free subscription) | 09/05/2008
Josh Peck of TV's Drake & Josh left his kiddie TV show days behind him with the indie coming-of-age dramedy The Wackness this summer, playing a pot dealer who finds love and sex over one magical summer before college. Drake Bell of TV's Drake & Josh -- he plays Drake, y'see -- tries to go Josh one better, or worse, in College, a raunchy comedy that plays like a Superbad...
Arizona Republic (Free subscription) | 09/03/2008
Josh Peck of TV's "Drake & Josh" left his kiddie TV show days behind him with the indie coming-of-age dramedy "The Wackness" this summer, playing a pot dealer who finds love and sex over one magical summer before college. Drake Bell of TV's "Drake & Josh" - he plays Drake, y'see - tries to go Josh one better, or worse, in "College," a raunchy comedy that plays like...
Thanks for the Use of the Hall (Free subscription) | 09/03/2008
Jonathan Levine's The Wackness is really good - why aren't people talking about it more? Just for starters, the three sex scenes between Josh Peck and Olivia Thirlby are among the sharpest and most sensitive ever put on film. Levine has a unique sensibility: tough-talking, almost hard-boiled, yet so emotive that his characters flirt with disintegration. How many directors could make a...
This is London (Free subscription) | 09/02/2008
... take on Giuliani’s clean-up of New York. But it’s the delicious un-PC banter between newcomer Josh Peck and Sir Ben (both total losers in love) that makes you shriek with laughter.After watching The Wackness, make sure you also catch Elegy, Spanish director Isabel Coixet’s film of the Philip Roth novella, The Dying Animal (still showing in London for at least another week). The tone...
The blog Film (Free subscription) | 09/01/2008
Bar a few exceptions, the critics reckon this tale of a teenage marijuana dealer and his unlikely friendship with a stoner shrink in mid-90s New York is a pretty dope movie. Ben Kingsley's turn as the aforementioned drug-addled psychiatrist is roundly praised, and there's plenty of mad love for Josh Peck's lovelorn marijuana entrepreneur.
This is London (Free subscription) | 08/28/2008
Ben Kingsley and Josh Peck make a convincing duo as a frustrated slacker and his shrink in Nineties New York.
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 08/31/2008
... younger women) and falling into a friendship with his stepdaughter's weed-dealing young boyfriend (Josh Peck). Ben raps along to Notorious BIG, gets arrested tagging a subway station, flirts with Mary-Kate Olsen, fronts up armed drug lords and drops condoms filled with water from the window of his Upper East Side apartment. Some of this works, but then his accent wanders, the funny...
Daily Express (Free subscription) | 08/31/2008
Sir Ben Kingsley is the big selling point of The Wackness, a melancholic relationship drama starring the knight of the realm as bong-smoking psychiatrist Dr Squires. In a mid-life funk, Squires counsels a troubled teen dope dealer, Luke (Josh Peck), in return for his wares. The picture charts their unlikely relationship, which is complicated when Luke takes Squires’s advice – find a girlfriend...
