Melissa McCarthy
Movie Review: The Little Mermaid
In "The Little Mermaid," Halle Bailey swims to superstardom while the rest of the cast treads water in a slight improvement over other Disney remakes.
Disney’s “The Little Mermaid” Poster & Trailer Released
The trailer and poster for Disney's "The Little Mermaid," the live-action reimagining of the studio's animated musical classic, are here!
Movie Review: Thor: Love and Thunder
While it proves wildly entertaining and engaging for most of its running time, "Thor: Love and Thunder" ends up a bit too light on the story side of the ledger.
The Preview Reel: Life of the Party and Breaking In
Welcome to this week’s “Preview Reel” column, where we look at the week’s upcoming wide-release movies. Avengers: Infinity War continues to break records as it has become the fastest film in history to reach $1 billion worldwide, and is already the 15th highest-grossing movie of all-time in just two weeks of release. The film is an undeniably huge hit for Marvel, and one that many studios saw comi...[Read More]
The Preview Reel: Don’t Be ‘Fraid of No Ghost
Welcome to another “Preview Reel” column, where we look at the week’s upcoming wide release movies. This week sees one of the most controversial releases of the year, Ghostbusters. There’s been a lot of online chatter about this movie, unfortunately most of it has been negative. Is all of the negativity deserving? Let’s break it down and see. [divider] Ghostbusters What we are excited about: Paul ...[Read More]
Trailer Trashin’: Busting Makes Us Feel Good in the New Ghostbusters Trailer
Hello again, dear readers, and I hope a lot of you got out to see Zootopia this past weekend. This week’s Trailer Trashin’ examines the first Ghostbusters trailer for the upcoming reboot of the 1984 classic. Premise: Erin Gilbert (Kristen Wiig) and Abby Yates (Melissa McCarthy) are a pair of unheralded authors who write a book positing that ghosts are real. A few years later, Gilbert lands a prest...[Read More]
Movie Review: Tammy
Let me just start out by saying I’m a huge fan of Melissa McCarthy, I absolutely loved her in Bridesmaids (2011). Unfortunately, the new film Tammy is not her best work. She plays pretty much the same role here that she has before, a tough but really mushy big girl that is forever getting into trouble. Tammy was written by McCarthy and her husband, Ben Falcone (who also has a small role and direct...[Read More]
Interview with Paul Feig and Joey McIntyre, the Director and co-star of The Heat
The new Sandra Bullock and Melissa McCarthy comedy The Heat arrives in theaters this Friday. The film is a feminine take on the buddy cop genre, which isn’t all that odd considering the film’s director is Paul Feig, the man who made the female-driven comedy Bridesmaids in 2011. Feig was recently in town promoting The Heat, along with actor Joey McIntyre, who is perhaps best known as a member of Ne...[Read More]
Movie Review: This Is 40
This is 40 takes us back to Pete (Paul Rudd), wife Debbie (Leslie Mann) and daughters Sadie and Charlotte (Mann and writer/director Judd Apatow’s real-life children Maude and Iris) who we meet up with again five years after the events of Knocked Up. Apparently turning 40 means it’s midlife-crisis time, and this couple both hit the landmark birthday the same week, though Debbie is in denial, ...[Read More]
Detroit Film Critics Society Announces the Best of 2011 Nominations
The Detroit Film Critics Society is pleased to announce the Best of 2011 nominees in ten categories. The society was founded in spring 2007 and consists of a group of twenty-two film critics who write or broadcast in the Detroit area as well as other major cities within a 150-mile radius of the city including Ann Arbor, Grand Rapids, Kalamazoo, Lansing, and Flint, Michigan. Each critic submitted t...[Read More]
Movie Review: Bridesmaids
When watching the trailer for Bridesmaids, it’s easy to simply pigeon-hole it as a “female” Hangover. Sure, the two movies have very similar elements, but Bridesmaids is much more than a clone. It’s a rated-R gross-out comedy with heart that shows the audience that women can be just as crass, and funny, as the men. Given the talent involved with this film, there’s no way it wasn’t going to be good...[Read More]