It seems there’s no stopping the US comedian Melissa McCarthy, a woman starring in three new films releasing this year (including Identity Thief, out this week) and the successful ongoing TV series Mike and Molly. Guest critic Ted Scheinman discusses why he thinks she’s the new face of American slapstick, up there with the greats. Plus, British director Danny Boyle pours all the darkness that didn’t make it into his Olympics opening ceremony into his latest film: a complex, twist-laden thriller called Trance. And Sleepwalk With Me, in which comedian Mike Birbiglia plays himself: a chronic sleepwalker, an absent boyfriend and a struggling stand-up comic. The line between self-indulgent narcissism and downbeat hipster comedy becomes very thin indeed...