Sentences with phrase «culture satire»

The Sleaze offers an uncompromising, off beat and savage view of our world with British Political Satire, News Satire, Pop Culture Satire, Religious Satire, Royal Satire, Crime Satire, Weird Satire News Parody and Surreal Humour Frequency about 3 posts per month.

The Sleaze offers an uncompromising, off beat and savage view of our world with British Political Satire, News Satire, Pop Culture Satire, Religious Satire, Royal Satire, Crime Satire, Weird Satire News Parody and Surreal Humour Frequency about 3 posts per month.

The Sleaze offers an uncompromising, off beat and savage view of our world with British Political Satire, News Satire, Pop Culture Satire, Religious Satire, Royal Satire, Crime Satire, Weird Satire News Parody and Surreal Humour Frequency about 3 posts per month.

A judge ruled that it would be inappropriate for Arena to play a Gomorrah gangster but Garrone was eventually permitted to cast the former hitman as a fishmonger in his celebrity - culture satire Reality.

The Sleaze offers an uncompromising, off beat and savage view of our world with British Political Satire, News Satire, Pop Culture Satire, Religious Satire, Royal Satire, Crime Satire, Weird Satire News Parody and Surreal Humour Frequency about 3 posts per month.

If only Weitz had borrowed more from the Network branch of political culture satires instead of the rather toothless modern one that Mean Girls and Saved!

Not exact matches

Religion News Service: Sultans of Satire aims to bridge gaps with Muslims, Arabs through comedy Produced by the Levantine Cultural Center, which is dedicated to highlighting Middle Eastern and Arab culture, the Sultans of Satire stand - up show aims to challenge stereotypes and sensitivities while bringing people together with a few laughs.

If you've been on Facebook in the last year, you've likely run across one of these videos, offering some biting satire while looking at some of Christian culture's most unfortunate...

When debate about an artist's merit no longer seems to have any point, one is left either with an icon of culture, too sacred to enjoy, or with a target of satire, brought down to our more humdrum level by a vaudeville lampooning of the unapproachable totem, as when graffiti artists paint a moustache on reproductions of the Mona Lisa.

We've had a rich culture of satire in this country and being able to criticise our political parties, our government and political institutions without any repercussions.

It was an experiment in writing «A Clockwork Orange» - style black comedy and was intended to be a dark satire on the loneliness and frustration that is so often a part of the contemporary male experience, as well as an attack on rape culture.

Plus political satire from Culture of Truth.

In conclusion this book is equal parts superhero movie; cutting - edge satire on the price of Internet fame; biting commentary on fanboy culture; and slapstick comedy this is easily David Wong's finest effort.

'' EDtv,» Howard's latest clever - concept production, looks, for a while, like it might shake free of the director's usual Velveeta patness, if only because the movie itself comes on as a hip, knowing satire of the packaged omnivorousness of contempo TV culture.

It's sexy, smart and funny, but also stylish and filled with social satire and commentary on the culture of money.

Too leaden for farce and too bland for satire, Lisa Addario and Joe Syracuse's «Dear Dictator» wastes a potential gold mine of culture - clashing silliness on worn, high school movie clichés.

Rochelle and Lee look back at some of the key films from this month, including Steven Spielberg's pop culture paean Ready Player One (00:46), Aki Kaurismäki's wry Finnish comedy - drama The Other Side of Hope (05:49), Ruben Östlund's wry Swedish comedy - drama The Square (08:08), Armando Iannucci's wry Russian comedy - satire The Death of Stalin (11:51), and Garth Davis's non-wry Biblical drama Mary Magdalene (14:32).

Flick (a wickedly funny Reese Witherspoon) is the bouncy ball of arrogance at the centre of Election, ingrained in popular culture thanks to director Alexander Payne, who also claims that President Barack Obama told him Election is his favourite political satire.

A hilarious and uber - violent satire of America's «bigger is better» culture, corporate power, and militaristic jingoism.

What at first seemed like another excuse to make fun of nerds and techie office culture instead revealed itself to be a near - perfect example of social satire....

Intended as a parody of B - movie fantasies from the»50s, this satire more directly lampoons kiddie thrillers like «Captain Video,» putting it perilously close to the pop - culture trash it aims to mock.

This film proves Burton has the ability to combine tragedy, comedy, satire and American culture all into one film.

This might have been a savvy satire on today's celebrity - struck media culture, but Niccol unfolds the story at a lumbering pace, peppered with not - funny gags and dramatic scenes that build little emotional power.

A wicked satire of our selfie and Instagram - obsessed culture, «Ingrid» features a knockout performance by indie comedy goddess Plaza as a woman who uses a $ 60,000 inheritance to move to LA and stalk an online celebrity (Olsen) with an equally vacuous existence.

There's no political meat in its satire of the British government or any real story in the episodic succession of events, and its portrait of the (pop) culture of the time is really just a movie fantasy.

A comedic slice of Indie Rock Apocalypse, Altamont Now is a biting satire of how the «alternative» youth culture of America lifts its rebellion from the past.

Rochelle and Lee look back at some of this month's new releases, as they debate Steven Spielberg's pop culture paean Ready Player One, Aki Kaurismäki's wry Finnish comedy - drama The Other Side of Hope, Ruben Östlund's wry Swedish comedy - drama The Square, Armando Iannucci's wry Russian comedy - satire The Death of Stalin, and Garth Davis's non-wry Biblical drama Mary Magdalene.

But, fascinatingly, Catch Me If You Can resembles Hitchcock's pictures in general in its self - mocking self - awareness: Spielberg's film is a canny satire of American culture and cinema, and, shockingly, a sly auto - critique of his decades - long pandering to the lowest common denominator; to the blinding flash of materialism; and to his almost pathological desire to restore nuclear order at the cost of any faithfulness to theme and mood.

With AMERICAN DREAMZ, though, he's created a tidy synthesis, combining inspired silliness with a satire that cuts to the bone of American culture.

Yet, it simultaneously serves as a sophisticated satire that makes some thought - provoking observations about American culture «along the way.

In January, we reported that a Russian arthouse theater had defied the country's Ministry Of Culture by screening Armando Iannucci's Cold War satire The Death Of Stalin despite it having its distribution certification revoked for — essentially — making fun of Russia's history.

Or does it promise something cheekier, a scathing satire about how truly cutthroat corporate culture can be?

It starts off as a heist comedy but then becomes a class satire, with Allen playing a working - class criminal who longs for wealth but distrusts the bourgeois culture that comes with it.

David Cronenberg forges both a wicked social satire and a very human ghost story from today's celebrity - obsessed culture.

The most frustrating thing about Anger Management isn't that Sandler is back to his old tricks, it's that there are observations embedded here about the state of our culture in decline that exhibit a genuine insight and cynicism that could have made for a fascinating satire rather than this unintentional one.

The original Dawn of the Dead was a high watermark that combined unrelenting visceral shocks with a wry satire of consumer culture.

Ines exhausting and demanding job is emblematic of women in the workforce writ large, and Ade's many pointed barbs at corporate culture makes for studious social satire with a thirst - quenching feminist tilt to it.

Boots Riley's satire about corporations and code - switching attacks the funny bone, while a near - perfect character study dissects bro - culture

The 50th anniversary of Eastern Europe's biggest film festival gathers the elite, stars and offers in competition a satire that sends up neo-Nazi culture in Germany

BODIED Joseph Kahn's hilarious rap battle satire takes many broad comedic swings at cultural appropriation, white privilege, challenging art, misogyny, outrage culture, and systemic racism.

This 1964 film by Stanley Kubrick stars Peter Sellers and George C. Scott in a satire about the Cold War politics that dominated the second half of American culture in the 20th century.

Indeed, not only is this movie a wonderful parody of all hero - quest stories, it is also an extremely sharp satire of contemporary popular culture, all the while being a super-enjoyable traditional three - act narrative with a cathartic climax and happy end.

Here's the second trailer for Ingrid Goes West, a satire of Instagram culture and obsession that marks the directorial debut of filmmaker Matt Spicer.

Brazil (1985, Terry Gilliam): The corporate culture of the future tries to crush the dreams of clerk Jonathan Pryce, giving the great Gilliam a chance to use his gifts for satire and production design to create a nightmare vision of dehumanization.

The end product, though, puts that skepticism to bed for 100 minutes of unbridled imagination, absurdist humor, pointed satire about consumerist culture, technical proficiency, and an attitude of «Anything goes.»

The Joneses is writer / director Derrick Borte's biting satire of the consumer culture, a film with an ingenious gimmick, the tone of a cynic, and, somehow, through it all, a conscience.

No mere jigsaw movie, David Fincher's thriller is also a nuanced character study, a satire of corporate culture, and a film about filmmaking.

The Great Beauty takes a few jabs at the current snapshot of Italian culture and does so by showcasing hilarious satire with magnificent cinematography.

Adi Shankar adds a short film about Fred Rogers, titled Mr. Rogers: A War Hero, to his collection of pop culture tributes and satires.

Back to the Future is, at the same time, an embracing of the cultures of the 1950s and the 1980s, while also a satire poking fun at all of the differences.