Tag: melissa mccarthy
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I Watched 30 Seasons of Television from 2021, and, yeah, You’re Gonna Hear About it
By Christian DiMartino Alright so you may or may not have noticed that I vanished for the last like 10 days. Both of my current segments- “Stallone Saturdays” and “THE Best Picture”- were put on hold. Movies such as Uncharted and Marry Me went un-reviewed. I also deliberately stayed off of the Youtube channel I…
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Review: Thunder Force
Melissa, honey… why must you keep making this so difficult? Melissa McCarthy, like Adam Sandler, is someone I’ve been defending for years. I think she’s great, and truly deserved her Oscar nominations for Bridesmaids and Can You Ever Forgive Me? (she would’ve been my personal vote that year). The thing is, she is so funny,…
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Review: Superintelligence
By Christian DiMartino Melissa McCarthy is great. What’s frustrating though is that the majority of her movies aren’t, and with that, she gets pulled down with them, even though she, and we, know she’s above them. For years, I have rushed to her defense, because of whenever she excels. She was great in Bridesmaids, where…
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“I Sometimes Wish I’d Never Been Born at All!”: Final Oscar Predictions and Preferences
By Christian DiMartino The Oscars are on Sunday, and normally I’d be all in. But this time, the end can’t come any sooner. I am sick to death of griping about this fairly weak list of Best Picture nominees and all of the other mistakes that that have been made. And bad mistakes… they’ve made…
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Review: The Boss
By Christian DiMartino Melissa McCarthy is capable of being so funny that it’s a shame a lot of her projects don’t quite stick the landing. Last year’s Spy was probably the funniest movie I came across the entire year. But yet a triumphant McCarthy comedy is, sadly, somewhat hard to come by. Take, for example, her…
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