In the span of five short years, I’ve gone from marveling at Melissa McCarthy’s comedic sensibilities to walking into her movies with the sort of dread usually reserved for IRS audits and colonoscopies.
Christopher Lawrence
Movie and TV critic
Email: clawrence@reviewjournal.com
Phone: (702) 380-4567
Christopher Lawrence escaped his native Kentucky without an accent thanks to the thousands of hours he spent in front of a television as a child. That’s also why he never learned how to ride a bicycle. He’s been writing about TV and movies since his days at Murray State University, when the school’s basketball coach had him reassigned at the student newspaper after just one story about the team. He’s been a professional TV critic since 2000, the Review-Journal’s TV critic since 2005 and its movie critic since 2012.
The actor and comedian joins the series for Season 2 as legendary Las Vegas comic Roy Martin.
Should Hollywood come calling, here are some casting ideas.
Despite “Avengers: Infinity War’s” record-shattering debut having been moved out of summer — because even a world in which Christmas decorations hit stores the day after Labor Day holds its ground on referring to April 27 as “summer” — there are still plenty of blockbusters to look forward to over the next few months.
May 4, aka Star Wars Day, has become a Lucasfilm-backed celebration of all things from that galaxy far, far away. Not surprisingly, quite a few other pop-culture “holidays” have sprung up in its wake.
A greater-than-usual sense of finality hung over the closing day of the theater owners convention at Caesars Palace.
The animated series will air its 636th episode Sunday, inching past “Gunsmoke” for the record for most episodes ever for a scripted American prime-time series.
Universal got the party started early Wednesday at Caesars Palace as “Night School” co-stars Kevin Hart and Tiffany Haddish handed out champagne to CinemaCon attendees at 10:07 a.m.
Disney let footage of its upcoming movies do the talking on Day Two of CinemaCon at Caesars Palace while Warner Bros. brought so many celebrities to the Colosseum stage, many of them barely had a chance to speak.
You are not prepared for the latest entry in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
Filmmaker Charlie Minn is bringing his latest documentary, “A Nightmare in Las Vegas,” to the Jewel Box Theater inside the Clark County Library for a series of screenings beginning Wednesday.
The animated comedy series returns for its ninth season Wednesday on FXX.
The Amy Schumer comedy is all about hating who you are unless you’re gorgeous.