Bridesmaids (movie)

Where have all the women gone in movies?

2013-05-13 08:00:00

There's one mountain in Hollywood that even "The Hunger Games'" scrappy heroine Katniss Everdeen hasn't been able to move: the number of roles for women. Despite the success of recent female-driven movies such as "Bridesmaids" and the "Hunger Games" and...

TV Picks: 'Family Tree,' 'Nashville,' '10 Buildings,' 'The Middle'

2013-05-09 14:50:00

"Family Tree" (HBO, premieres Sunday). Christopher Guest has made you a TV series. Thank him. The director of "A Mighty Wind" and "Best in Show" and one of the forces behind and in "This Is Spinal Tap" -- in which he was Nigel Tufnel, whose amplifier went...

Paul Feig puts 'The Heat' on funny women

2013-04-26 09:30:00

Not long after Paul Feig created the beloved cult TV series "Freaks and Geeks" in 1999, studios began barraging him with coming-of-age sex comedy scripts, even though "Freaks," with its sweet, sympathetic portrait of the perils of adolescence, was...

The Paris Photo art fair comes to Los Angeles: Photography's new aim

2013-04-26 16:30:00

The photograph is almost famous: a shot by Kevin Winter of actress Jennifer Lawrence that caught her just as she stumbled on her way to receive an Oscar this year. The small drawings hanging beneath are less familiar: delicate images by P.E. Sharpe of a...

Tribeca 2013: In 'Tricked,' Paul Verhoeven turns fans into writers

2013-04-25 07:30:00

NEW YORK -- As Zach Braff and the people behind “Veronica Mars” could tell you, crowd sourcing isn’t a half-bad way to raise some money for a film. But can it enable new forms of creativity too? That's what the longtime Hollywood...

Sandra Bullock's 'The Heat' to honor Boston cops with screening

2013-04-19 13:24:00

Sandra Bullock and Melissa McCarthy's buddy cop comedy "The Heat" will be screened in advance for Boston police officers and FBI agents. The city was stunned Monday after twin bombings at the Boston Marathon killed three people and injured scores more....

David O. Russell named guest director of L.A. Film Festival

2013-04-19 10:30:00

Oscar-nominated writer-director David O. Russell ("The Fighter," "Silver Linings Playbook") has been named guest director of the Los Angeles Film Festival, organizers announced Friday. The festival takes place June 13-23 in downtown Los Angeles. Russell...

Review: 'The Sapphires' plays like a good-time jukebox musical

2013-03-21 17:41:00

Some diversions invite comparison more readily than others. Take "The Sapphires," the most chipper film ever set in Vietnam. Already many have taken it, and liked it. If you enjoyed "Strictly Ballroom" or "The Commitments," which is to say if you fell...

Will Ferrell to be named Comedic Genius at MTV Movie Awards

2013-02-28 16:29:00

Will Ferrell may be lacking in Oscars, Emmys and Golden Globes, but he's about to kick off a tradition on the upcoming MTV Movie Awards. The actor is getting the first-ever Comedic Genius Award on the telecast April 14. Is 45 too young to be given a...

Melissa McCarthy leads 'Identity Thief' to biggest opening of 2013

2013-02-10 09:07:00

Melissa McCarthy stole the show at the box office this weekend, proving she has the star power to attract moviegoers to theaters even during a blizzard. "Identity Thief," her comedy co-starring Jason Bateman, easily ran away with the weekend's No. 1...

Review: Laughs stolen in 'Identity Thief'

2013-02-07 17:25:00

"Identity Thief" is a larcenous bit of funny business. It probably should be locked up for its crimes and misdemeanors against moviemaking. But its stars, Jason Bateman and Melissa McCarthy, steal so many laughs from such improbable places that the...

Critic makes few friends calling Melissa McCarthy 'tractor-sized'

2013-02-08 16:55:00

Rex Reed, the famed film critic of the New York Observer, is no fan of Melissa McCarthy nor her latest flick, "Identity Thief." In his review, Reed trashed the zany comedy that costars Jason Bateman as a victim of McCarthy's felonious identity-...

R; 1:31 running time You could, if you wanted, sit in a dark theater and simply check off the similarities between the blockbuster "Bridesmaids" and this fall's "Bridesmaids" knockoff, titled "Bachelorette." Female bodily function jokes? Check. Inappropriate come-ons on an airplane? Check.

2012-09-06 07:53:00

Years on "SNL": 2005-12 Memorable roles: The Target Lady; Dooneese on "The Lawrence Welk Show" Away from "SNL": While on "SNL," Kristen Wiig appeared in director Judd Apatow's 2007 film "Knocked Up" and starred in and co-wrote the Oscar-nominated 2011 hit "Bridesmaids.

2012-07-17 11:38:00

R; 2:04 running time A lot of terrible romantic comedies come along in a given year, and after five or six you begin to question your belief in anything -- romance, comedy, movies, even terribleness itself. So.

2012-04-26 00:00:00