Melissa McCarthy

Melissa McCarthy should win an Oscar for all of the reasons she won’t

Anne Kingston: McCarthy plays a figure we don’t often see onscreen—a single, clever woman on the margins who isn’t a mother. She’s also deeply, inescapably human.

‘Spy’: Can this deliciously funny film overcome its marketing?

Melissa McCarthy is pure genius in this comic thriller

On making Animal House, Melissa McCarthy as the new Belushi—and sex in a Seth Rogen world

On making Animal House, Melissa McCarthy and sex in a Seth Rogen world

In conversation with producer-director Ivan Reitman

Novelty acts: The Heat, White House Down, Storm Surfers 3D

Bring on the dumb comedy, mindless action . . . and surf porn

On our expectations of actors’ looks–without talking about ‘Girls’

Jaime J. Weinman blames fairy tales for the sexist double standard in TV and film