Back To The Movies

Back to the Movies heads straight to the latest comedic depiction of the capitalist american dream with this week's review of Melissa McCarthy's The Boss. Caleb and Arthur are joined by GoodTrash cohorts Dalton Stuart of The People's History of Film and Alexandra Bohannon of The Film Syllabus film to get dissect, discuss, and critique the path of comedic box office success in Hollywood.Regular listeners may notice the lack of a certain Jake Gyllenhaal flick from this week's roster because sometimes the cinema gods are cruel. Caleb and Alex attended a screening for Demolition, but unfortunately a broken press screener demolished all anxious expectations.Melissa McCarthy has quickly risen to be one of the definitive faces for women working in Hollywood. Following her big screen break out in Bridesmaids, she's gone on to star in a string of procedural comedies including Identity Thief, Tammy, The Heat, and Spy among many others. The Boss stars McCarthy as a fallen industrialist who is forced to reinvent herself