The 1996 interview between Rolling Stone reporter David Lipsky and acclaimed novelist David Foster Wallace is depicted in The End of the Tour. One day journalist David Lipsky (Jesse Eisenberg) recieves the news that author David Foster Wallace (Jason Segel) has died of an apparent suicide. This results in Lipsky flashing back to the time he…
It was less than a decade ago when Judd Apatow established himself as a comedy king. After producing mostly TV series during the 1990s and early 2000s, Apatow hit a one-two punch by producing Anchorman in 2004 and directing The 40 Year Old Virgin in 2005, both of which would go on to be big…
I first became familiar with wind turbines about a decade ago when a turbine was installed within Exhibition Place in Toronto. Also, on the route to my family’s cottage, I often pass a big wind farm in Shelburne, Ontario, which has hundreds of these generators. Being a city-dweller, I often don’t think twice about wind…
I’m am a bit of a weird age when it comes to my fandom of The Muppets. When I was born in 1982, The Muppet Show had already finished its run and two of the three original Muppet films were already released. However, the Muppets were still a big part of my childhood, with me watching everything from…
Even though the film is now 14 years old, I still consider There’s Something About Mary to be probably the best film Cameron Diaz has stared in. She’s played her career fairly safe since then, so it’s definitely interesting to see her star in a new R-rated comedy. I can definitely tell in this film that…
It may not be Pixar, but I thought that Despicable Me was a very decent animated film. It’s also the first of two animated films this year to feature a villain in the lead role (the other being Megamind). The villainous aspect is part of what makes this film fun to watch, since the character of…
This film comes about a little under 11 months after my only other experience with star Jason Segel (that being Knocked Up). He wasn’t really too much of a stand-out in the movie, so it was a little risky pushing him into the lead (even though that move worked for Seth Rogen in last year’s…
There was a time, not so long ago, when I would have not felt comfortable seeing R-rated comedies like this one. However, films like Wedding Crashers and The 40-Year Old Virgin (a film I was initially freaked out about, but quietly went to see anyway) showed me that those films tend to be the more…
