[Review] Spy

After achieving stardom with her standout performance in Bridesmaids, Melissa McCarthy has become a divisive figure, at once a reliable box-office draw while being frequently accused of only being able to play one type of character and one style of comedy. Spy is her third collaboration with director Paul Feig, for whom she will also […]

[SXSW Interview] Paul Feig and Melissa McCarthy (Spy)

Video by Elijah Alvarado. To coincide with the film’s theatrical release, we are re-releasing our Spy interviews from this year’s SXSW. Paul Feig has risen up as one of Hollywood’s best directors for comedies thanks to films like Bridesmaids and his penchant for creating strong female characters in a socially-aware landscape that asks for such positive depictions. It’s this […]

Broad City Girls and Paul Feig Working on Upcoming Film

Over the past couple of months, my household has become kind of Broad City central. It’s rare for a day to go by where I don’t, at the very least, re-watch an episode or two of stars Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer’s outrageous shenanigans in New York. At a time when comedy actresses and comediennes are rising […]