Sentences with phrase «such satire»

In an era when such satire would be welcomed, Ramis was too busy interrupting biblical incidents like Cain & Abel and Abraham & Isaac in a vapid vaudevillian style.

Such satire helps expose self - importance and can even help check things such as corrupt or sloppy thinking.

Not exact matches

Why do I sense that implicit in your satire is the gross misunderstanding that the presence of such evils means that they are universally commended as such?

I apologize if my satire seems hateful but that is due to my belief that fundamentalism in government brings evil and that includes non-religious forms such as pure capitalism, communism, fascism and so on.

Never has such a completely cynical satire, about how our politics works been so funny.

There are bound to be some unusual or annoying — and sometimes «inappropriate,» as this popular YouTube satire brings to light — people at the gym, but Ive never heard of people actually getting violent over such behavior.

Salt is needed for fluid regulation Sodium in nerve signalling» but I explained that your article was satire poking fun at the people who actually believe such alternative clap - trap.

This might be the only completely untruthful and wholly ignorant statement made in Justin Simien's debut feature Dear White People, which seems far too true - to - life to be called a satire, even though it's billed as such.

Better to revisit such memorable Hollywood satires as «The Big Picture» or «For Your Consideration» before indulging Shepard's uninspired whimsy.

Smith also lards the film up with lame Canadian caricatures, frequent bathroom humor, and tired bits of satire, all aimed at the millennial set, revolving around such things as the supposed pretentiousness of yoga.

A Minnesota native, LeGros found steady work when he migrated to Los Angeles after college in the early»80s, popping up as a guest star in such TV series as Knight Rider, and in Danny DeVito's directorial debut, the made - for - cable satire The Ratings Game (a.k.a..

In Sergei Loznitsa's weighty social comment «A Gentle Creature,» a woman in the Russian countryside quietly sets out to deliver a care package to her (presumably wrongfully) imprisoned husband and encounters such heavy obstacles that would play as satire if they weren't so dramatic.

unlike babyface which could be deemed as a social satire about a ghetto girl's eager angst to clander to the top in search of power, harlow's reddish circe is more like a ridicule of sex such as the scene she's trapped in the phonebooth and the absurd connotation of sadism & masochism as harlow remarks «do it again!

Crucially, he realises that a movie - biz satire needs to outclass its targets between Raoul Coutards cinematography and Georges Selerues magisterial score, few films have achieved such elegance.

Olive releases two films from late in Preminger's career, one an overheated melodrama set in 1946 Georgia where the antebellum past is still alive, if not at all well, the other (Such Good Friends) a modern social satire about friendship and betrayal in the wake of the sexual revolution.

It did have touches of humor here and there, such as Herbert Moon being primarily comic relief, but satire and jokes weren't as common as in GTA, where every billboard, every radio commercial, every line of dialogue is supposed to be a quip of some sort.

Bruce, the stand - up comedian whose focus on social satire, was the forerunner of controversial greats such as George Carlin and Bill Hicks; Hoffman received his third Oscar nomination for his performance.

The film attempts to juxtapose extremely heightened, broad farce with social satire in a period setting along with dark subject matters such as cannibalism and incest.

David Cronenberg is best known for psychological horror films such as Videodrome and Dead Ringers, and although Maps to the Stars is ostensibly a bleak satire on movie folk, there's an underlying gothic mood that simmers nicely to the boil.

It all flows so fast and furiously funny, it's easy to forget how hard it is to pull off such effective satire.

By design, they are the very opposite of pretentious; they virtually deny the existence of a higher ideal, and as such they don't need to be brought back down to earth by satire.

Birdman serves as a dark satire on everything about the movie biz — the bean counting deliberateness that spawns a world of superhero movies; the way talent is ignored if it comes from the wrong sources; the potential for critics to abuse their craft and the way such a nomadic industry can affect family.

Director Robert Luketic isn't nearly as ambitious as Alexander Payne, who used Witherspoon to such dazzling comic effect in her best film, Election; whereas Payne mined her perkiness for subtly sinister satire, Luketic simply uses it for the easy lightweight laugh.

And so, with a slippery smooth melding of social conscience and satire, British firebrand Ben Wheatley (Kill List) chose for his fifth feature to conform the skyscraping High - Rise, knowing full well the risks involved in such a structure.

A playful satire on the music, the film also explores the more unsavoury aspects of rap lyrics, such as casual misogyny, homophobia and racism.

Longtime Screen Rant readers are aware that several members of our staff were disappointed with Alice, for reasons that run deeper than the distracting post-converted 3D and its recycling of Burton / Depp tropes; such as, how it trades in the discernible characters and satire of Carroll's novels for an ambitious (but, sadly, non-compelling) fantasy allegory where many dark Underland inhabitants and CGI backgrounds blurr together.

National Lampoon was one such force, spun off from the Harvard Lampoon in 1970 and emerging over the course of the decade as a raunchy (naked women appeared frequently in its pages), surrealist (fake ads were one of National Lampoon's specialties), boundary - pushing (the magazine's most famous cover reads, «If You Don't Buy This Magazine, We'll Kill This Dog») leader in American satire.

That's why Verhoeven's gonzo, cyberpunky original was such a blast: nearly X-rated for violence, that hard - R actioner rammed its you - know - you - want - it satire right in your face, and was deliriously entertaining for it.

Kung Fu Panda 3 easily maintained its box - office lead over Super Bowl weekend, while new releases such as the Coen brothers» Old Hollywood satire Hail, Caesar!

Although it was initially received as an art - world satire, the new movie has more sprawling aims: Imagine, if such a thing is possible, one of Michael Haneke's exacting morality plays with a wicked sense of humor, or Roy Andersson's ultra-deadpan tableaux minus the Scandinavian gloom.

Normally, for such a broad satire, I would state that you should see the films satirized in order to understand the gags.

G.B.H. (Acorn) A savage satire of Thatcher - era party politics and a devastating drama of power and corruption and simple moral courage, this brilliant British mini-series is dryly funny, constantly surprisingly and thoroughly engrossing, and features such a heartbreaking turn by Michael Palin in a rare dramatic role.

But Clooney's heart is on his sleeve as usual, and surrounding a tale of racial violence with such kitsch and exaggerated satire brings a danger of condescension that the film keeps at arm's length through a commitment to its long game.

The kinky tale of a virtuous innocent (Romina Power, Tyrone Power's 18 year old daughter) who is «cruelly treated, robbed, falsely accused, imprisoned, assaulted, beaten, and pursued» by all she encounters while her sister indulges in vice, sin, murder, and all sorts of wickedness with such glee that it sends her to the top of society is perfect Franco material, though the satire and irony is admittedly buried in sheer excess.

The film is essentially a dark satire of contemporary consumerism, but to describe it as such is to hide just how incredibly bizarre it is.

After having undergone such an extensive emotional and physical journey over the course of his filmmaking career, he has come full circle, bringing his character work and his political satire to Nebraska.

And it is choices such as this where what is innovative and audacious about Chi - Raq — a musical satire about gun violence starring an all - star black cast is in and of itself a bold move — fades into the drone of repeated statistics.

In an actual biting political satire, such quiet time is wholly acceptable, yet it somehow feels like dead weight in a movie so cotton candy that any amount of pressure at all is bound to threaten a collapse.

We accept well - written articles (ideally 1000 — 4000 words); such as essays, political analysis and satire, philosophy, psychology, short stories, book reviews, book excerpts, author interviews, poetry, et cetera.

Awards are generally categorized by genre of writing, such as fiction, comedy, drama, horror, non-fiction, realistic fiction, romance novel, satire, tragedy, and tragicomedy.

«Draper's savory satire of such an unlikely source of obsession and greed demonstrates a splendid affinity for Mother Nature and a sardonic appraisal of human nature.»

In GTA 5, one such narrative is a critique of common representations of the American dream, developed through satire.

Some games, such as the WarioWare series (which are called microgames in the game), Universal Research Laboratories's Video Action, some Cinemaware titles like Defender of the Crown, David Whittaker's Lazy Jones or the smartphone satire Phone Story are made up of many minigames strung together into one video game.

Like that much of a sendup, it's so pitch perfect without being too like... it's such a weird combination of, like, complete simulacra and, you know, very taught satire that never makes you feel like you're actually just grinding out mobs on World of Warcraft.

9 Works such as these of course lent themselves perfectly to satire: both Musset and Balzac made fun of the ambitions of the apocalyptic and Fourierist painters, probably basing their caricatures on that learned and mystical pasticheur of universal panaceas, Paul - Joseph Chenavard.10

Such conceptual satires address as much our ways of seeing as the content we see.

Indeed, with her adeptness at luring viewers with captivating (and seemingly innocuous) hand - painted illustrations, humorous texts, and sheer scale and then surprising them with content that is remarkably honest — by turns subversively friendly or bitingly critical and addressing such fraught subjects as power dynamics, social marginalization, and even the machinations of the art world — she has smartly aligned herself with the enduring and boundary - pushing strategies of satire, parody, and caricature.

The works in «Laughter in the Dark» can be viewed within the distinguished tradition of political satire and social commentary by artists such as Hogarth, Daumier, Goya, and Picasso.

I think humor and (dark) satire - particularly on subjects such as technology and society - has been an important part in my artistic practice.

Today Sun is one of China's fastest - rising post -»80s generation stars, known for his symbolic yet cryptic animated films, which are often inspired by authors such as George Orwell and Yevgeny Zamyatin — best known for their political satires on futuristic, dystopian societies.