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After great performances in 500 Days of Summer, Brick and Inception, I thought I’d go back and see what else Joseph Gordon-Levitt did after 3rd Rock from the Sun…

The Lookout introduces lots of bits of story that look like they might develop into something interesting but then, for the most part, they don’t and it ends up being a mediocre heist movie. That’s why you’ve never heard of it.

Mysterious Skin on the other hand is a film about an emotionless male prostitute set in the late 80s that includes aliens (it makes sense in the film), a paedophile baseball coach, AIDS and a rape. Not happy viewing, indeed hard to watch in parts, but brave, honest, compelling and in the end quite moving.

He’s also done this which is quite nice…

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