09 April
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THUNDER FORCE Writer/Director: Ben FalconeStarring: Melissa McCarthy, Octavia Spencer, Bobby Cannavale, Jason Bateman, Melissa Leo, Pom Klementieff, Taylor Mosby The pairing of real-life besties Melissa McCarthy and Octavia Spencer should be a superhero dream team, yet their new film Thunder Force is a full-fledge super mess. We learn through some opening narration and comic book style graphics that interstellar cosmic waves struck Earth in 1983 giving certain people superpowers. They were named Miscreants as they used their powers for evil. As a young girl Emily vowed to become a scientist and give people powers to fight off the miscreants. She was best friends with LydiaRead More →

24 November
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SUPERINTELLIGENCE Director: Ben FalconeStarring: Melissa McCarthy, Bobby Cannavale, Jean Smart, Bryan Tyree Henry, Ben Falcone, Jock McKissic, Michael Beach Melissa McCarthy and her husband Ben Falcone have teamed up multiple times before with movies like Life of the Party and The Boss. In their latest, SuperIntelligence, McCarthy plays Carol Peters who considers herself a fairly average woman. She used to work for a tech company but left her position to do more philanthropic work in her community. One morning a techno superintelligence starts talking to from every one of her devices. It’s always the voice of James Corden as Carol thinks his voice is soothing.Read More →

24 November
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“SUPERINTELLIGENCE” Interviews – Melissa McCarthy, Bobby Cannavale, Ben Falcone Melissa McCarthy and Bobby Cannavale star in the new rom-com SuperIntelligence coming to HBO Max on November 26. I sat down with the pair along with director Ben Falcone to talk about getting star struck, their 20 Days of Kindness initiative, and more. **click SUBSCRIBE for more reviews and interviews** Here’s the interviewRead More →

15 August
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THE KITCHEN Writer/Director: Andrea BerloffStarring: Melissa McCarthy, Tiffany Haddish, Elisabeth Moss, Domhnall Gleeson, Brian d’Arcy James, Common, Margo Martindale You haven’t seen Melissa McCarthy or Tiffany Haddish in a film like this before. Along with Elisabeth Moss they play mob wives whose husbands have been arrested after a botched robbery at a liquor store. It’s January 1978 in the Hell’s Kitchen neighborhood of New York. The women need money to keep their families afloat, but cash is tight and their crime families won’t chip in to help now that their husbands are locked up. They make a pact to work together to gain control andRead More →

22 January
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LOVE, GILDA Director: Lisa D’ApolitoStarring: Gilda Radner, Gene Wilder, Amy Poehler, Melissa McCarthy, Maya Rudolph, Bill Hader, Chevy Chase, Martin Short The new documentary Love, Gilda is a love letter to comedienne Gilda Radner. It takes a traditional approach to its structure starting with her childhood days continuing on in her early days of improv, becoming a member of the first cast of Saturday Night Live, marrying Gene Wilder, and her diagnosis with ovarian cancer. Here’s my reviewRead More →

01 November
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CAN YOU EVER FORGIVE ME? Director: Marielle Heller Starring: Melissa McCarthy, Richard E. Grant, Dolly Wells, Jane Curtin, Stephen Spinella, Ben Falcone Melissa McCarthy gives a career-defining performance in her new movie Can You Ever Forgive Me? She stars as author Lee Israel alongside Richard E. Grant and Jane Curtain in this true story of forgery and literary icons. Check out my review and head over to my YouTube channel HERE for more reviews and celeb interviews from recent press junkets.Read More →

10 May
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LIFE OF THE PARTY Director: Ben Falcone Starring: Melissa McCarthy, Molly Gordon, Maya Rudolph, Gillian Jacobs, Luke Benward, Julie Bowen, Heidi Gardner, Debby Ryan, Jacki Weaver, Stephen Root Melissa McCarthy and her husband Ben Falcone frequently collaborate on a variety of projects. They’ll write the script together while he directs it and she stars as the lead. Life of the Party is their third movie together following 2014’s Tammy and 2016’s The Boss. I’d rank this film as the best of the three. In it McCarthy plays Deanna who is heartbroken after waiving goodbye to her daughter, Maddie (Gordon), who’s entering her freshman year ofRead More →

07 May
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“LIFE OF THE PARTY” CAST INTERVIEWS I recently sat down with the cast of Warner Bros’ Life of the Party, directed by Ben Falcone and starring Melissa McCarthy. It’s a funny mother-daughter story, and we get to see McCarthy in a different light than we’re used to from films like Bridesmaids or Tammy. Here are the interviews and make sure to head to my You Tube channel and click SUBSCRIBE for more reviews and interviews. Melissa McCarthy, Molly Gordon, and Gillian Jacobs   Debby Ryan, Heidi Gardner, and Luke Benward   Julie Bowen and Matt Walsh click HERE to find my You Tube channel andRead More →

14 July
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GHOSTBUSTERS Director: Paul Feig Starring: Kristen Wiig, Melissa McCarthy, Kate McKinnon, Leslie Jones, Chris Hemsworth, Ed Begley Jr., Zach Woods, Charles Dance There’s a line in the classic Ray Parker, Jr. theme song that states, “I ain’t afraid of no ghosts.” I’m here to say that you shouldn’t be afraid of this movie. This new take on Ghostbusters will have you laughing from start to finish. Kristen Wiig plays Erin Gilbert, a nervous university professor who has put her days of tracking the paranormal behind her. She was firmly under the impression that her book, “Ghosts from the Past” was long forgotten until the headRead More →

04 June
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SPY Writer/Director: Paul Feig Starring: Melissa McCarthy, Jude Law, Jason Statham, Rose Byrne, Bobby Cannavale, Miranda Hart, Allison Janney Let’s cut to the chase. Melissa McCarthy is one of the funniest actresses working today and is starring in one of the funniest movies of the year. In Spy, she plays CIA agent Susan Cooper who is quite content sitting behind her desk monitoring dangerous situations for field agent Bradley Fine (Law). She has a severe crush on him, as he is completely dashing and debonair like any spy should be. He has been working on a mission to track down the location of some nuclearRead More →