Sentences with phrase «rolling stone journalist»

Back in 2013, Rolling Stone journalist Matt Taibbi wrote an article criticizing the Obama administration's lax attitude towards corporate crime:

James Ponsoldt's «The End Of The Tour» — a film about a Rolling Stone journalist shadowing author David Foster Wallace for a profile piece on the renowned writer — doesn't look like much of a movie on paper.

The thought - provoking Sundance Film Festival hit stars Jason Segel as celebrated author David Foster Wallace opposite Jesse Eisenberg who plays a Rolling Stone journalist David Lipsky.

, COWBOYS, the directorial debut of Jacques Audiard's A Prophet and Rust and Bone co-writer Thomas Bidegain; the breathtaking ethnographic Colombian Amazon odyssey EMBRACE OF THE SERPENT; James Ponsoldt's THE END OF THE TOUR starring Jason Segel as writer David Foster Wallace and Jesse Eisenberg as Rolling Stone journalist David Lipsky in this engrossing two - hander; Writer - Director Jayro Bustamante's IXCANUL VOLCANO, the European Premiere Stevan Riley's enthralling Marlon Brando documentary LISTEN TO ME MARLON; Jia Zhangke's ambitious, astute and humane MOUNTAINS MAY DEPART; the European Premiere of Sylvia Chang's often - ethereal magic - realist drama love story, MURMUR OF THE HEARTS; the European Premiere of THE NEW CLASSMATE about a single mum in India battling to ensure her daughter's future; SEMBÈNE!

The Forgetting Sarah Marshall star is totally persuasive as a troubled brainiac, and his performance is the beating heart of James Ponsoldt's (The Spectacular Now) fun and moving road - trip movie about what happened when a Rolling Stone journalist (Jesse Eisenberg) accompanied the late writer on the last leg of his book tour.

Not exact matches

«A lot of this swatting stuff happened when it became feasible for people to get paid playing video games,» Brian Krebs, a longtime cybersecurity journalist, recently told Rolling Stone.

As a journalist, musician, and yogi — from Rolling Stone to National Geographic to Yoga Journal — Derek Beres does it all.

I think there's a lot about marijuana we don't know,» California Sen. Dianne Feinstein told journalists at Rolling Stone.

Bridges» and Aaron Latham's flaccid exposé of fitness culture and journalist ethics, starring Travolta as a Rolling Stone reporter and Jamie Lee Curtis as a pelvic - thrusting aerobics instructor, was woefully misnamed Perfect (1985).

It took writer - director Cameron Crowe, a former journalist with «Rolling Stone,» three years to write, and the care shows in the depth of the characterizations and the logic of the plot.

In his early days as a journalist, he wrote (and very famously so) for Rolling Stone about the 1972 Richard Nixon, George McGovern election and from that developed a well - known loathing of Nixon.

Crowe has been behind the scenes at some of the greatest rock tours ever, dating back to the articles he first wrote for Rolling Stone as a teenage journalist — a life story that served as the basis for one of his better movies, 2000's «Almost Famous.»

McChrystal's story is the inspiration for writer - director David Michôd's new Netflix film, War Machine, based on a book by the late journalist Michael Hastings, whose 2010 Rolling Stone profile, «The Runaway General» got the general fired as commander of U.S. forces in Afghanistan.

Lester (the incredible Phillip Seymour Hoffman) is a legendary rock critic (and real - life mentor of Crowe) and a personal hero for young and talented would - be music journalist extraordinaire William (Patrick Fugit), and in fact after they meet Lester assigns the first big writing assignment which will lead William to bigger and (arguably) better things, namely joining up - and - coming rock band Stillwater on their «Almost Famous» tour and learning a thing or two about life and love while trying to complete a Rolling Stone cover story on Stillwater and compete with lead guitar player Russell Hammond (an impressive Billy Crudup) for the affections of infamous not - a-groupie-but-a-Band-Aid Penny Lane (a so - so [in my opinion] Kate Hudson).

End of the Tour / U.S.A. (Director: James Ponsoldt, Screenwriter: Donald Margulies)-- This story of the five - day 1996 interview between Rolling Stone reporter David Lipsky and acclaimed novelist David Foster Wallace explores the tenuous yet intense relationship that develops between journalist and subject.

The film's writer and director (whose previous credits include Say Anything and Jerry Maguire) did in fact start out as a 15 - year - old rock journalist, writing for Playboy and The Los Angeles Times prior to his Rolling Stone days.

James Ponsoldt is probably the ideal person to direct this two - hander — which does feature small roles from Ron Livingston as the journalist's boss at Rolling Stone magazine, and Joan Cusack as the author's publicist.

Journalist Wil S. Hylton has had stories featured in New York Times Magazine, Harper's, Esquire and Rolling Stone, but did you know he has a new book in stores Nov. 5?

As a writer, she has written eight published books, and was a journalist for Rolling Stone, the Financial Times of London and the Associated Press, to name a few.

Eric Schlosser, an award - winning journalist, has written for Atlantic Monthly, Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair, the Nation, and The New Yorker, among others.

The co-founder of Green Global Travel and Green Travel Media, Bret Love is an award - winning journalist / editor who's been published in over 100 publications, including the Atlanta Journal - Constitution, National Geographic and Rolling Stone.

Also represented are four New Yorkers: Jane Jacobs, a journalist, author, and activist who fought and stopped the Robert Moses Lower Manhattan Expressway; Amy Goodman who is an investigative journalist considered a «guardian of truth» by Rolling Stone magazine, and the host and producer of the news program Democracy Now!

In a March 2012 Rolling Stone piece, journalists Jeff Goodell writes: «An even larger threat is the flowback waste that is pumped out after a well is fracked.

~ P. J. O'Rourke, US humorist and journalist (Source: Rolling Stone, November 30, 1989) Martin Buckland is renowned across Canada as a leading Executive Career Matchmaker and Executive Career Management Services Professional.