Anne Kingston: McCarthy plays a figure we don’t often see onscreen—a single, clever woman on the margins who isn’t a mother. She’s also deeply, inescapably human.
Tag Archives: Melissa McCarthy
‘Spy’: Can this deliciously funny film overcome its marketing?
Melissa McCarthy is pure genius in this comic thriller
On making Animal House, Melissa McCarthy and sex in a Seth Rogen world
In conversation with producer-director Ivan Reitman
Novelty acts: The Heat, White House Down, Storm Surfers 3D
Bring on the dumb comedy, mindless action . . . and surf porn
On our expectations of actors’ looks–without talking about ‘Girls’
Jaime J. Weinman blames fairy tales for the sexist double standard in TV and film