What’s that spooky sound you hear throughout the much-anticipated, female-led remake of Ghostbusters — a sound that freezes the blood of comedians, that haunts the dreams of clowns? It’s the sound of silence, of dead air, of jokes dematerializing into the void. The new Ghostbusters isn’t a horror, exactly. It’s just misbegotten. It never lives. The new team is Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig, Kate McKinnon, and Leslie Jones, who’ve all had moments of fabulousness elsewhere. No problem with the casting! Wiig plays Erin Gilbert, a professor teetering on the brink of tenure at Columbia, who’s desperate to bury a ghost-hunting history that could derail her cushy academic future — a history visible in the form of a book she wrote with Abby Yates (McCarthy) called, Ghosts From Our Past: Figuratively and Literally. Read more http://www.vulture.com/2016/07/review-ghostbusters-never-finds-its-own-way.html
