Sentences with phrase «funny satire»

Director Ramaa Mosley eschews violence for a more whimsical, Tim Burton-esque treatment in this offbeat, darkly funny satire.

A brilliant blend of exhilarating action, psychological pathos, and dead - on funny satire makes for one of the more adrenaline - pumping action vehicles of the 1980s.

With W., his insightfully funny satire of George W. Bush, Stone turns the bumbling but affa..

With W., his insightfully funny satire of George W. Bush, Stone turns the bumbling but affable president and his entourage into Dr. Strangelove.

WHY: «What We Do in the Shadows» sounds like a bad comedy sketch — a «Real World» - esque reality show with vampires in place of horny millennials — but it's actually a very funny satire of the vampire subgenre that's done in the deadpan style of a Christopher Guest mockumentary.

Writer - director Jake Kasdan has come up with a wickedly funny satire about the vast wasteland of television.

If Get Out, Jordan Peele's screamingly funny satire of white - liberal prejudice in America, was just one continuous take of Daniel Kaluuya's face, it would still be a gripping watch.

«What We Do in the Shadows» sounds like a bad comedy sketch — a «Real World» - esque reality show with vampires in place of horny millennials — but it's actually a really funny satire of the vampire subgenre that's done in the deadpan style of a Christopher Guest mockumentary.

Ingrid Goes West starts as a sharp, darkly funny satire.

AMERICAN VIRGIN This hard - edged and funny satire will appeal to the same audiences that made «Freeway» a cult hit.

A dispiritingly vitriolic, only sporadically funny satire of»50s Hollywood, Hail, Caesar!

Funny satire that looks at the film industry through the eyes of a terrible B - Horror movie director played by David Naughton (An American Werewolf in London).

But the video actually works on two levels: It's funny satire and it's actually kind of motivating.

Not exact matches

I expected to see some truly funny political satire in the spirit of editorial cartooning.

Her show is edgy, funny and presents news - focused comedy that has more punch than even more established political satire outlets.

I'd pass your cartoon on to Andrew Linzey, except I am sure he wouldn't see the funny side of the satire.

eter, you are funny... I made no excuse, I wimply pointed out that the satire was not realy satire at all... but a trollish attempt to foment discord.

It produces the funniest postures and scenes, to be enjoyed by any and all who can... for however long, distance self from the stage of ego, and take a seat in the audience of loving acceptance, and thereby appreciate the irony, the satire, the drama, and all else involved in an a frantic and frenzied ego production, brought to you by the people at Self Interest Bloated and Perverted Inc...

This is a little heavy - handed in its satire, but very funny anyway, but maybe I'm just a grumpy middle - aged guy who doesn't have the energy to be post-anything.

Though even if that's true, the satire of hip Evangelicalism is still funny.

I guess the reason the satire is so funny is because it seems so close to reality.

Humor, funny, ha ha... satire uses both in reference to every day human weaknesses and foibles to make us THINK or simply to share the experience of being human!

So it's an unexpected delight to find «The Global War on Morris,» a political satire by Rep. Steve Israel (D - N.Y.), so spirited and funny.

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

Gregarious but prone to brooding, working writer, cartoonist and painter with a background in journalism and advertising; born with a penchant for satire, quick witted, empathetic, sensitive, talkative, funny.

Vancouver, British Columbia About Blog The Burrard Street Journal is a occasionally funny Canadian satire, parody and comedy news website based in Vancouver, BC.

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Yet the execution isn't as funny as it sounds, with the film more concerned with fart jokes than edgy political satire.

Thompson, though, had already scored a role on another highly esteemed TV series in 1995, Garry Shandling's mercilessly funny Hollywood satire The Larry Sanders Show.

This is not smart, this is not funny, this is not satire - it is just a piece of crap.

Alpha House hits a few notes of inspired satire — like the bowl of American flag lapel pins the senators keep on the kitchen counter — but Trudeau's been more biting and much funnier elsewhere, past TV efforts like Tanner ’88 and the malaise - infected Doonesbury Special included.

A satire is only as good as its subject, and in the very funny I'm Gon na Git You Sucka, Keenen Ivory Wayans has found a rich and relatively untapped one.

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

As funny as that moment is, the payout in this flick should be the satire... of which there is very little.

Wondrously inventive, funny and poignant, WALL * E is part sci - fi adventure, part cautionary fable, part satire and part love story, which may be the best and most improbable part of all.

Unfortunately, despite its Fellini-esque scale, this misanthropic satire is not particularly funny.

And the funny thing is that the satire, while criticizing U.S foreign policy, isn't as particularly biting or edgy as the film believes itself to be.

Director Paul Verhoeven, the mastermind behind so many great, giant camp films, made a large scale, NC - 17, satire on the world of the Las Vegas showgirl, but of course it wasn't meant to be funny.

This isn't a major Dante effort, but his ability to make a good - natured satire that allows an audience to read it several ways at once is as strong as ever, and many of the sidelong genre notations are especially funny.

The filmmaker's attempt to balance social satire and farce doesn't always work, but While We're Young is smart and funny enough to overcome its flaws.

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.

Despite a few clever gags and some very funny asides from the mugging Price, viewers expecting a Monty Python - style satire of horror films will be rather disappointed.

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.

It's a reasonably funny religious satire that takes potshots at easy targets but is quite watchable due to the participation of two Oscar winners and two Oscar nominees.

Observing how fertile the field of heavy metal music is for satire, it's disappointing to watch Airheads bumble around, desperately trying to find something funny to say.

If you want good satire, just watch the talent contests and interviews of real pageants; they are much funnier.

In the crass sporting satire, The Bronze, the audience is supposed to unleash their wicked funny bones at the door for a former foul - mouthed Olympic blonde - haired...

Not as dark or as funny as Bob Roberts, the other great political satire of the 90s.

It's the most quotable film of the 2000s — by miles — and the cynical potty mouths on screen are so articulate and creative that, after the avalanche of witticisms, you're left with the lingering sense that you've seen not just a funny movie but also a wicked political satire of the highest order, the kind where the absurdity speaks for itself.

The instinct is to recoil, but damned if it isn't the first De Niro performance in his self - parodic period that's both spot - on in its auto - satire and funny to boot.