Despite Wall Street Journal movie whisperer Joe Morgenstern fretting that too many big-budget comedies seem to be exploiting the extremely talented Melissa McCarthy, and that, as a result, McCarthy-starring movies may soon be subject to the law of diminishing returns , that time is not yet nigh because everyone a) who…
The opening credits of The Heat — the buddy cop flick starring Melissa McCarthy and Sandra Bullock, written by Kate Dippold and directed by Paul Feig that's out today — have an old-school Blaxsplotation vibe to them: A funk song plays over shots of the gritty city. And the movie itself feels slightly like it's from…
“The Heat,” the new buddy cop comedy, directed by “Bridesmaids” helmer Paul Feig, starring Sandra Bullock and Melissa McCarthy as a pair of mismatched crime solvers, has been generating a lot of, well, heat. From speculation about whether it will live up to Feig’s last outing to recent controversy surrounding what…
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As usual, there are quite a few dude-centric flicks coming this summer — from Iron Man to Man of Steel to This Is The End, Lone Ranger and Wolverine. (Not to mention The Internship, World War Z, White House Down, Pacific Rim, Grown-Ups 2, 2 Guns.) And although two women — Sandra Bullock and Melissa McCarthy — star in…
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OH, COOL: Melissa McCarthy's face and neck appear to have gotten some copious 'Shopping treatment on the UK poster for The Heat.
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Here's the trailer for The Heat, the action/buddy comedy starring Sandra Bullock and Melissa McCarthy. Honestly, it looks kind of predictable and slapstick. But we're willing to pay money for this, because:
