I grew up at the perfect time for the Muppets. I was a child when Sesame Street started airing on PBS, and The Muppet Show came a few years later with a whole new batch of characters that were better in many ways than the iconic creations on Sesame Street. The Muppets jumped to the […]

The next film for me was the new Ricky Gervais comedy, The Invention of Lying. When I saw the previews for this I was immediately enthralled with the concept. The idea is quite compelling. We have a world where everyone tells the truth to such a degree that the word “truth” isn’t even in their vocabulary. It’s just […]

On Saturday the family went to see Ghost Town, the new movie starring English actor Ricky Gervais with Greg Kinnear and Tea Leoni. Most people under 30 know Gervais as he’s often a guest on shows like The Daily Show. His biggest claim-to-fame is that he created the hit TV show, The Office, for English […]