‘Superintelligence’ Film Review: So-So Melissa McCarthy Film Suited for Streaming

Kaleem Aftab British film “Limbo,” a wry refugee drama, directed by Edinburgh-born director Ben Sharrock and produced by Spain’s Irune Gurtubai, won the Golden Pyramid for best film at the Cairo Film Festival on Thursday.Told in a pleasing deadpan style, “Limbo” recounts the story of a Syrian musician, played by the BIFA nominated rising star Amir El-Masry, who is placed on a Scottish island when awaiting his request for asylum to be processed.

Melissa McCarthy has had “so much fun” playing the villainous Ursula in the upcoming live-action remake of The Little Mermaid.The Life of the Party actress will take on the “delicious” sea witch role in Rob Marshall’s adaptation of the 1989 Disney classic.And appearing on Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen alongside her husband Ben Falcone this week, Melissa revealed she’s hoping production will recommence in January (2021) in London after it was shut down due to the ongoing COVID-19

Melissa McCarthy and Ben Falcone are teaming up for a new Netflix comedy series!

Netflix has given a 16-episode series order to God’s Favorite Idiot, a workplace comedy from Ben Falcone and Melissa McCarthy, with Falcone and McCarthy set to star and executive produce. Michael McDonald (Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Nobodies) is attached to direct and executive produce.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterNetflix has ordered a comedy series called “God’s Favorite Idiot” from Melissa McCarthy and Ben Falcone, Variety has learned.The streamer has commissioned 16 episodes of the series, in which both McCarthy and Falcone will star. Falcone wrote the series, with both he and McCarthy also serving as executive producers via their company On the Day.

Watch Video: Melissa McCarthy Apologizes as HBO Max Nixes Donation to Group With Anti-LGBT History: 'We Blew It'Carol (McCarthy), our protagonist, does want to good in the world; since stepping down from her exec position at Yahoo, she’s spent most of her time working for environmental and pet-rescue non-profits.

Singing “One Week” is no easy feat.

It's a demonstrably difficult task to find a comic screen partner worthy of standing opposite Melissa McCarthy, so you have to appreciate “Superintelligence" for throwing in the towel.In it, McCarthy plays Carol Peters, a former Yahoo executive who's chosen, purely for her extreme averageness, by a newly liberated, megalomaniacal artificial intelligence that presents her with a three-day test to prove humanity isn't worth destroying.

Also Read: See Johnny Flynn as David Bowie in First Look at Unauthorized Biopic 'Stardust'For better and for worse, “Stardust” grapples with those issues as it follows a 24-year-old Bowie on a promotional tour through the United States in 1971, accompanied by a long-suffering Mercury Records publicist named Ron Oberman.Johnny Flynn plays Bowie, Marc Maron plays Oberman, and the point of director and cowriter Gabriel Range’s film is to trace the seeds of Bowie’s breakthrough character, Ziggy

“Can You Ever Forgive Me?,” both of which earned her well-deserved Oscar nominations, there are four “Tammy”s. “The Happytime Murders,” “The Kitchen” and “The Boss” were some of the worst movies of their respective years.

Soft-hearted, middle-of-the-road comedies — that is the brand Melissa McCarthy and Ben Falcone have established in their three previous films together. With McCarthy as star and sometimes co-writer, and Falcone as director and writer, the real-life married couple have turned out the innocuous, mildly funny Life of the Party (2018), The Boss (2016) and Tammy (2014).

A joke belabored is a joke ruined. “Superintelligence,” Melissa McCarthy’s latest team-up with comedian, writer, director, and hubby Ben Falcone, ruins an overwhelming majority of its jokes.

Melissa McCarthy’s husband, Ben Falcone, is filling ET in on the hilarious moment his wife declared her love for their co-star.McCarthy, 50, and Falcone, 47, star alongside Bobby Cannavale in the new HBO Max flick,, releasing on Thanksgiving Day.

Melissa Mccarthy’s husband Ben Falcone has a crush on Harry Styles.The 50-year-old Ghostbusters star appears in a virtual interview on The Ellen DeGeneres Show on Thursday (November 19, 2020), with the actress sharing her beau’s man-crush.Admitting Ben has a soft spot for the Watermelon Sugar star, she explains: “He really does. He’s fallen pretty hard for Harry Styles.

Melissa McCarthy is dishing on her husband Ben Falcone‘s crush!