Sentences with phrase «last mockumentary»

It's been a decade since Christopher Guest's last mockumentary, For Your Consideration, and his latest, Mascots, suggests that not much about his alternately affectionate and condescending view of human grotesques has changed.

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Last year, after a peer - reviewed study showed that butter was not the health hazard the media would have had us believe, Organic Valley celebrated with an ad campaign produced in the style of a mockumentary, charting the «war on butter» that began in the 1950s and the subversive Organic Valley dairy farmers who never stopped working toward a «butter» future.

It's hard to believe that Christopher Guest, who directed last year's smart and funny mockumentary Waiting for Guffman, helmed this disastrous enterprise.

Among the movies released under the banner last year were Ryan Gosling's murder drama «All Good Things,» the Eliot Spitzer documentary «Client 9» and Joaquin Phoenix's mockumentary «I'm Still Here.»

A mixture of mockumentary, re-enactments and in camera narration, the story really comes together in the last act.

In a short released last summer called «While You Were Fighting: A Thor Mockumentary,» directed by Taika Waititi, who is also at the helm of the upcoming «Thor: Ragnarok,» Thor invited the world into his new home in Australia where he lives with his long - suffering roommate Darryl.

It's been a hot minute since Christopher Guest has unleashed a new mockumentary on the masses and since his last, For Your Consideration, proved to be his worst, he's got something to prove with Mascots.

The Dictator may eschew the mockumentary format of Cohen's last two box office successes for a conventional comedic feature structure (rom - com-esque love interest included), and introduce a new character to his raucous repertoire, however these are the only discernible differences between his latest and previous material.

The Week in Movies discusses the last seven days in cinema, including the mockumentary skit from Thor: Ragnarok's Comic Con panel being released, has a new Doctor Strange villain been leaked?

The result is this sharp mockumentary following a Male (Mackenzie Astin, In Love and War, The Last Days of Disco) and his efforts to mate with the Female (Carmen Electra, Baywatch, Singled Out).

I had a hunch that Cooties (read here) and Adam Wingard's The Guest (read here) might make it into what appears to be a line - up of eight (there might be some wiggle one for one last minute inclusion), but this year's section flaunts a more international palate with the latest from Norway's Tommy Wirkola (sequel to Dead Snow — which showed at the fest in 2009) reps Europe, Taika Waititi & Jemaine Clement return to the fest they broke out of with Eagle Vs. Shark but with a mockumentary (What We Do in the Shadows) that might compliment the inclusion of Jim Jarmusch's latest.

Sci - fi short mockumentary Last Days of the Man of Tomorrow (2017) takes a look at Lebanon's history through the life and legend of Manivelle, an automaton gifted to the nation in 1945, making it the country's first AI citizen.

About battling tree lovers, from loggers to activists, it won L.A.'s Mockumentary Festival award last year.