Sentences with phrase «great social commentary»

Whether it's the teen horror gore or the great social commentary horror we love, the genre is full of gruesome death scenes.

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It places Wolfe in the great tradition of social - commentary novelists, a lineage Wolfe hailed in his great Harper's essay, «Stalking the Billion - footed Beast.»

At this point, as a society, it would probably be more newsworthy to hear a story about someone who achieved something great without cheating... which is a depressing social commentary!

She loved my image of «Fearless» and wrote a great commentary on it as she applied it to her own personal challenge to being fearless on social media.

With the extraordinarily talented Danny Boyle at the helm, unflinchingly honest social commentary, a great cast and a fantastically funny script by regular Boyle collaborator John Hodge, Trainspotting, adapted from Irvine Welsh's iconic

With the extraordinarily talented Danny Boyle at the helm, unflinchingly honest social commentary, a great cast and a fantastically funny script by regular Boyle collaborator John Hodge, Trainspotting, adapted from Irvine Welsh's iconic Scottish novel is a true masterpiece of British filmmaking.

Likewise, the current popularity of the superhero genre allows Birdman to be all the more relevant as social commentary - and allows it to land its punches with greater precision (see: the joke about Keaton's character refusing to do Birdman 4).

And like with so many of the great sci - fi films she worships, she's using the genre to craft spiky political and social commentary.

A profoundly unsettling work from the great American director Todd Haynes, Safe functions on multiple levels: as a prescient commentary on self - help culture, as a metaphor for the AIDS crisis, as a drama about class and social estrangement, and as a horror film about what you can not see.

(Olive, Blu - ray, DVD)(1950), directed by Cy Enfield, is one of the great lynch mob movies ever made and one of the most caustic social commentaries of anxiety and fear, set in the disillusionment of the American Dream in the post-war years and dosed with sociopathic anger.

«Packs a lot of fast paced action, great performances, and social commentary into a modest package» — AP

It would be great to see Snowpiercer became as big an international hit as that earlier film, which also blended cutting social commentary, blockbuster set pieces and the sort of thrills you rarely get out of contemporary marketed - to - death multiplex fare.

is one of the great lynch mob movies ever made and one of the most caustic social commentaries of anxiety and fear.

Get Out is great as an uncomfortable comedy, but it excels at social commentary and reconstituted horror movie hyperbole.

The film, Gosford Park is ultimately a highly nuanced social commentary circa the early 1930s in Great Britain, regarding the upper class and a sharp observation of the servant class.

Every bit of social commentary contributes to a greater purpose that Coogler gradually reveals to be the main villain, Erik Killmonger (Coogler's muse Michael B. Jordan).

And the film itself is as great as you might imagine: a gripping, deeply moving examination of one person caught up in an unfair system and trying to quell demons exterior and interior to fix it, which works equally well as a humanist portrait, as social commentary and even as political allegory.

A cracking and often surprising story, terrific social commentary and great fun to read.

At turns engaging, funny, joyous, passionate, sad, and poignant, it is a wonderful blend of science, social commentary, and great story telling.»

Both are great at demonstrating the key social commentary of the piece; young people can get turned off, bogged down and isolated from the rules and regulations of society as a whole.

Using your game's social commentary is a great way to differentiate yourself from both larger developers and other indies.

As Baker knows, Bram Dijkstra's great book, «American Expressionism,» points out that American painting was very concerned with social issues before formalist critics like Clement Greenberg rejected all representational paintings in favor of abstractions and «snobbed» any work of social commentary off the map.

Using bodies in their most abject and raw forms, the great painter orchestrated a highly personal, yet captivatingly universal visual aura with right doses of social commentary on religion, womanhood, and labor.

In 1992 The Whitney Museum of Art did a retrospective exhibition on the life works of this great American Contemporary artist and master of social commentary.

When a scientist declares, as Brulle did in that Newsday op - ed, that we «must do what is necessary to save the planet» and that activists need to present «dramatic, global threats» to persuade people to make great sacrifices and move toward that «alternative social order,» his work is properly subject to the scrutiny applied to commentary by political activists.

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