[Review] Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation

In my recaps of the Mission: Impossible movies last week, I postulated that even in this most unpredictable of series, where tone, narrative and character are defined not by formula but the vision of whomever happens to be behind the camera, the movies tend to alternate between the character-driven suspense of the first and third […]

[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 […]

[Red Band Trailer] Spy

Paul Feig and Melissa McCarthy have proven to be a formidable duo if their history together (Bridesmaids, The Heat) are any indication. While The Heat wasn’t all too hot, Bridesmaids helped destroy the notion that women aren’t funny and helped elevate McCarthy to the position she’s in right now. Whereas The Heat saw McCarthy in a buddy cop comedy, […]