Posts tagged "Melissa McCarthy"

At this rate, I want Paul Feig and Melissa McCarthy to never stop making movies together. Ms. McCarthy killed in Paul Feig’s Bridesmaids, and then she stepped up into a co-starring role in Mr. Feig’s follow-up film, The Heat.  In Spy, Ms. McCarthy and writer/director Feig

If I had just been considering it based on the plot description, The Heat is probably not a movie I would have gone to see.  But director Paul Feig’s projects always have my attention.  (Mr. Feig is the creator of the brilliant Freaks and Geeks, and most recently he directed t

I’m an enormous Judd Apatow fan.  I’m proud to say that I watched and loved Freaks and Geeks (the criminally cancelled-before-its time TV show created by Paul Feig and executive-produced by Mr. Apatow) back when it originally aired.  Same goes with Undeclared, Mr. Apatow

When you combine the two main creative forces behind Freaks and Geeks (one of the greatest television shows ever made) with some of the funniest actresses working today, is it any result that the resulting film is an uproariously funny, ferociously entertaining comedy from start to fi