Tag: McCarthy
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Robert Downey Jr. Kinda Saw His Oppenheimer Character As The Film’s Hero
In Christopher Nolan’s new film “Oppenheimer,” a biography of one of the chief architects of the atomic bomb, Robert Downey, Jr. plays Lewis Strauss, a real-life politician who spent a portion of the McCarthy era becoming increasingly suspicious of Communists in the American political system. He launched a campaign against Oppenheimer years after the invention…
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This Iconic Comedy Character Was Inspired by Guy Fieri
Melissa McCarthy is no stranger to playing hilarious characters, and has shown off her effortless knack for bizarre comedy in hit movies like This is 40 and The Heat. One McCarthy character, however, was actually inspired by a very real Guy, and this was the totally outrageous but surprisingly earnest Megan in 2011’s Bridesmaids. McCarthy…
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The Cormac McCarthy Adaptation That Was Completely Butchered
The recently passed Cormac McCarthy is known to most movie fans for No Country for Old Men. His novel became the film many would call the Coen Brothers’s finest work and won them the Academy Awards for Best Adapted Screenplay, Director, and Picture. Sadly, this is the exception when it comes to McCarthy’s adaptations. Unlike…
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The Best Cormac McCarthy Villain Hasn’t Been Brought to the Screen Yet
Fans of great literature and movies alike were mourning this past Tuesday with the passing of one of America’s great authors, Cormac McCarthy. McCarthy was perhaps most well known for his breakout novel All the Pretty Horses and the Coen Brothers’ helmed movie adaptation of his neo Western No Country for Old Men (2007). McCarthy…
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Melissa McCarthy Claps Back at Assumption That ‘Comedies Don’t Work’ in Hollywood
Melissa McCarthy is calling out the misconception behind comedies in Hollywood during the latest episode of “Hot Ones.”“Somehow the new logline is that comedies don’t work,” McCarthy said. “I think bad comedies, I think bad movies don’t work but I will fight to my last breath, which will be in about 4 more wings, that…
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Masterpieces and oddities: Cormac McCarthy’s bleak, bold and batty films
From the exemplary adaptation of No Country for Old Men to the offbeat screenplay for The Counselor, McCarthy’s sparse style lent itself to cinemaGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailThe late and great Cormac McCarthy’s most famous novel is probably The Road, a hauntingly well-written and shattering story of a father and son trekking across…