I cannot WAIT to see Melissa McCarthy play the criminal mastermind Lee Israel in Can You Ever Forgive Me, a role that’s already earning her Oscar buzz. But the Academy should also consider recognizing McCarthy’s feline co-star—a wonderful cat named Towne who plays Israel’s cat Jersey—because it sounds like he’s every…
The Happytime Murders wants to shock us with its Muppet-style puppets who curse, patronize porn shops, snort drugs, and jizz silly string, but the only truly shocking thing is just how inept the movie is. This is the kind of movie where a character whispers to someone a few feet away so that the person standing…
The Happytime Murders is an upcoming “raunchy” movie about puppets who team up with Melissa McCarthy to stop their compatriots from being murdered, while simultaneously appearing to ejaculate silly string from their soft puppet parts. Unfortunately, the above trailer’s cursing, drug use, and aforementioned puppet…
If strung-out puppets are your thing, if plush sex workers with hands already up their asses rev your engine, if you like watching stuffed things suffer...well, I hope you’re familiar with Peter Jackson’s 1989 feature-length bad trip, Meet the Feebles. If not, get on it: It’ll make you feel like you have fingernail…
Forgive me, self-assigned arbiters of taste, but I’m about to lay one on you: Life of the Party, for all it’s simplistic script-flipping, is kinda great. At the very least, it’s a pleasant ride and doesn’t ask to be anything else.
Finally, a role for Melissa McCarthy that does her talent for drama justice.
Here is the trailer for Melissa McCarthy’s latest coproduction with husband Ben Falcone, Life of the Party, which follows the adventures of a newly single mother who decides to return to college for her degree. The same college, in fact, as her daughter attends.
In what is a just-bananas-enough-to-believe publicity grab, Walmart will capitalize (intentionally or not) on the #MeToo and generally pro-women national mood by airing three 60-second films “devised” by directors Melissa McCarthy, Dee Rees, and Nancy Meyers during this year’s Academy Awards broadcast.
As we know, Adele isn’t particularly interested in broadcasting her every personal milestone. And that’s cool — so long as she continues to sing songs that make me cry, I demand nothing else. But you may be interested to know that she got married.
Melissa McCarthy reprised her guest role as Sean ‘Spicey’ Spicer in Saturday Night Live’s cold open. McCarthy didn’t do much to mix up the bag of tricks she’d drawn from in her first rendition last weekend (literally, the toys are back), continuing to play the White House press secretary as solidly, predictably…
Polls! What do they even tell us? Mostly, they confirm that a terrifying number of people know nothing and don’t care about truth, but also that they love Melissa McCarthy, so it’s not all bad.
Esteemed president Donald J. Trump has made it a priority of his administration to watch SNL from the White House, and according to his own tweets, he is not happy with how he’s being portrayed on the show. But the most devastating part of last week’s savage episode, Politico reports, was that his press secretary Sean…
The occasional distraction in the form of quality entertainment can be very sustaining. Some of our finest comedy ladies are answering the call.
Jennifer Lawrence made $52 million in 2015. That number is slightly down this year, but she’s still leaving most leading woman actors in the dust.
We’ve had to sit through months of sexist Ghostbusters fanboys in a full-blown outrage woody because the new Ghostbusters is comprised of four very capable, very funny women instead of men. The mommy-fear was palpable there, and perhaps a plant, because even despite Missy Elliott, the real thing Ghostbusters fans have…
Some of the leading ladies of the Ghostbuster’s reboot have commented on the internet backlash against their casting in the franchise—a backlash that feels like it’s been going on for maybe a hundred years now, and predates the original film in my mind.
Melissa McCarthy was featured in a lengthy profile in the Guardian this weekend, where she took a moment to address the trolls who managed to make the first trailer for the new Ghostbusters reboot the most downvoted movie trailer on YouTube.
Lyric mecca and burgeoning news blog Genius posited a question as old as the term as “box office poison,” and the question is this: why are major media sources reporting that Melissa McCarthy’s career is flailing when her movies are making money?
On an episode of The Ellen Show set to air Friday, Melissa McCarthy said that after the back and forth about who exactly fucked up the negotiations with regards to her being a part of the Gilmore Girls reunion series on Netflix, Sookie will indeed be returning to Stars Hollow.
Though it seemed that there might have been bad blood between Melissa McCarthy and the rest of the crew over in Stars Hollow, she’s confirmed that her absence from Gilmore Girls stems from a misunderstanding about her busy schedule.
