If writer-director-star Tyler Perry makes good on his threat to make “A Madea Family Funeral” the final film featuring his larger-than-life comedic heroine, then Madea will going out with a whimper ...

Tyler Perry is more than just Madea. Along with the iconic, no-nonsense matriarch, the mastermind behind the 13-film franchise has taken on a handful of other roles throughout the Madea-verse over the ...

The Gist: We open with Perry’s version of a James Bond-style cold open action sequence: Madea (Perry) pulls her vintage boat Caddy into the gas station. Robbers accost her. She indulges her Ramboesque ...

Like Mark Twain, the reports of Madea’s death have been greatly exaggerated. The director-writer-producer-actor has said “A Madea Family Funeral” is the last on-screen outing for Tyler Perry’s ...

Two weeks ago, Tyler Perry was home for a minute. Perry, the New Orleans native who built a film and TV empire from Atlanta, stopped in his hometown during a seven-city promotional tour for his new ...

Tyler Perry’s most famous character, the gun-toting grandma Madea, marks her 20th anniversary this year and, to celebrate, she’s heading to the Bahamas in “Madea’s Destination Wedding.” The Netflix ...

Madea is alive and kicking, and Tyler Perry is back in lurid form, in a movie that combines weaponized burlesque and primal soap opera. There’s Madea’s brother, Joe, played by Perry as a raunchy white ...

The “Madea” movies have only intermittently done right by the character of Madea. Tyler Perry’s creation Mabel “Madea” Simmons is an outrageously anarchic agent of chaos that, until now, has never fit ...

Before Perry struck creative gold in Hollywood, he shared his art with live theater audiences. Following in the footsteps of the likes of TV stars Flip Wilson and Martin Lawrence, Perry found success ...

Tyler Perry’s A Madea Homecoming, out now on Netflix, marks the official un-retirement of the Perry’s quasi-alter-ego fat-suit/crossdress Madea character, officially marking the 12th movie in her own ...