Tag: Melissa McCarthy

Thunder Force | Review

May the Force Dismiss You: Falcone & McCarthy Amuse Themselves in Latest Improv Heavy Exercise Comedy is harder than it looks, especially if one is...

Superintelligence [Video Review]

Artificial Significance: Falcone & McCarthy Go Through Motions in Brainless Comedy For some filmmakers and their muses, an entire body of output results in a...

2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Theodore Melfi’s The Starling

Production on Theodore Melfi's fourth feature film begin in August of 2019 and he appears to be moving towards more dramatic terrain this time...

The Kitchen | Review

The Kitchen, God’s Wife: Berloff Doesn’t Bring the Heat in Halting Melodrama Hell may as yet have no fury like a woman scorned, but the...

The Boss | Blu-ray Review

Although it wasn’t the incredible runaway success of other recent Melissa McCarthy vehicles (it cost a little more and made a little less than...

Ghostbusters | Review

Dose of a Ghost: Feig Delivers Funny, Feminized Franchise Entry Overshadowed by the ill will of an alarmingly misogynist fanboy culture since its initial inception,...

The Boss | Review

She’s a Hustla, Baby: Falcone and McCarthy Sew Themselves a Silly Badge Melissa McCarthy arrives as a perpetually turtle-necked, foul mouthed CEO with abandonment issues...

Spy | Review

Spy Hard: Feig’s Generally Entertaining Espionage Parody Director Paul Feig does a James Bond send-up for his latest Melissa McCarthy headlined romp, Spy. But for...

St. Vincent | Blu-ray Review

The independently produced dramedy from helmer Theodore Melfi received a mostly positive critical reception following its premiere at the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival...

St. Vincent | Review

Sinners And Saints: Melfi’s Debut an Unobtrusive Crowd Pleaser For a few moments during its initial set-up, Theodore Melfi’s directorial debut, St. Vincent, seems on...

Tammy | Review

Tammy Girl: Falcone’s Debut a Tepid Turkey Rex Reed might have been better served to save his wayward disparagements about the cinematic talents of Melissa...

Top 200 Most Anticipated Films for 2014: #129. Ted Melfi’s St. Vincent De Van Nuys

Director: Ted Melfi Writer: Ted Melfi Producers: Chernin Entertainment’s Peter Chernin and Jenno Topping, Ted Melfi, Fred Roos, Don Cheadle U.S. Distributor: The Weinstein Co. Cast: Bill Murray,...

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