Sentences with phrase «make social commentary»

I could speak, make social commentary about America through a photograph!

«We're not trying to make social commentary.

Yes, I know the argument that putting our own politics into these tales gives authors the opportunity to make social commentary in a new light.

«Ha, Depp wants to make social commentary: Johnny Depp's team knew of alleged abuse of Amber Heard,» the younger Trump tweeted Friday, invoking the rocky end of the actor's marriage to his «Rum Diary» co-star and including a link to a Daily Mail story referencing court documents related to the actor's lawsuit against his former managers.

Often Bay leaves the impression that the serious quest exists mainly to allow the filmmakers to make some social commentary.

District 9 was an inspiration because of the way that film makes social commentary in a really clever way.

Gachot's mixed media sculptures made from found materials demonstrate wry and wit while frequently making social commentary.

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In some commentary on Caritas in Veritate, the point has been made that there are tensions among different statements of Catholic social teaching.

We wanted to make shows like that — that had social commentary that was rooted in something, and had a point of view and were funny.

The book brings together a stunning array of past and present social commentary and data, making it an invaluable resource for putting «cultural revolution (s)» in context.

Even though they have made their way into the commentaries, literary and social - scientific approaches are still «what's new» in biblical studies.

AB is really about social commentary and how a simple man and his antics (read poor behavior) can make millions by creating a distraction for the masses from every day life's drudgery, and cynicism.

The identification of the South Carolina congressman, a previous unknown at the national level, was made by traditional media outlets at 9 pm; within minutes, people were looking online for news and info about him; blogs picked up the story; millions of people pushed the buzz around social networks — adding their own commentary along the way.

The statement was said to have been made on Citi FM's Saturday flagship program «The Big Issues» on 20th January 2018 and captured in several commentary on social media.

What made Romero more than a horror director was his focus on horror as a means of social commentary.

Beyond searing social commentary, serial fantasy and science fiction fared exceptionally well, with The Lord of the Rings series, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series, the Harry Potter series, and the Song of Ice and Fire (Game of Thrones) series all making it into the top ten.

Beyond searing social commentary, fantasy and science fiction fared exceptionally well, with The Lord of the Rings, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, and the Harry Potter series all making it into the top ten.

Of course, not everyone embraces searing social commentary and indeed, the need to escape current events may be why fantasy and science fiction fared exceptionally well, with The Lord of the Rings, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, A Game of Thrones and the Harry Potter series all making it into the top ten.

Taking pictures / working in the darkroom, writing fiction / poetry / social commentary, architecture, and even making short films or designing websites - all these things are outlets that keep me...

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Critic Consensus: Beautifully shot but dishearteningly relevant, The Handmaid's Tale centers its sophomore season tightly around its compelling cast of characters, making room for broader social commentary through more intimate lenses.

And here, as in last year's I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry, Sandler interestingly attempts to blend genuine social commentary with copious gross - out humor in much the same way that Mel Brooks did in Blazing Saddles (a movie that, beyond the beans - around - the - campfire gags, wore its heart so firmly on its sleeve in favor of racial brotherhood that it stopped just short of singing «Kumbaya» to its audience); Sandler, who's admirably never been shy about proudly proclaiming his Jewishness, takes on xenophobia, suggests that Israelis and Palestinians CAN get along and — most controversially of all, perhaps — makes a case that disco music CAN be enjoyable in the right time and place.

Co-starring Bogosian and Meatloaf, her comedic social commentary special Vandemonium Plus was released on HBO Home Video along with her sly parody sketches «Made For Television.»

Critic Consensus: This overly silly satire aims at too many targets with arrows too dull to make relevant social commentary.

Critics Consensus: This overly silly satire aims at too many targets with arrows too dull to make relevant social commentary.

This also gives the movie a fair amount of not - too - heavy - handed social commentary, making Harold and Kumar look like the good guys, and racist idiots who antagonize them are very un-cool jerks.

Topics include: using the «C - word» the most times allowed in a 15 rating, wanting to make an American action film that didn't parody anything, the social commentary on «Starbucking», the characters and the friends cast to play them, and Wright's directorial style.

Journeyman director James McTeigue's better work (V for Vendetta, Sense8) has always maintained an element of social commentary: we sense him lingering when Burke tells Union «You are a woman, alone, at the mercy of strangers», which makes it even more cathartic whenever our resourceful heroine locates a weak spot.

Jordan Peele of Comedy Central's «Key & Peele» made a true cinematic rarity — a horror movie that is funny and scary while delivering some pointed social commentary.

With this, writer / directors Abby Kohn and Marc Silverstein (making their directorial debut) look to deliver the same social commentary and relatable laughs they brought to their scripts for films like Never Been Kissed and How to Be Single.

One part social commentary and one part superhero satire, «Watchmen» straddles a thin line of making fun of the very genre it represents and being the punch line to the joke.

He gobbles up the role, chews the scenery, and makes it so believable within the context of the film's social commentary that it resonates like no other performance this year.

The irony of Pulse is that, by removing the «confusing» social commentary, they have made what's left infinitely more perplexing, with very little explanation as to what is going on during many scenes, or what is motivating anyone, ghosts and humans alike, into doing whatever it is they seem very compelled to do.

The music is exceptionally good, and the performers are appealing, but the mediocre script and aimless plotting will make this a tedious experience for anyone looking for laughs or compelling social commentary.

Day - Lewis goes all out and hits the exaggerated level of the social commentary while making it utterly convincing at the same time — much like the film itself.

The scenes play for laughs (and often achieve them), skating over the sexual subtext that could have made for some rich social commentary.

She has so much that she has to internalize to make Georgina work, and it's a character upon which so much of Peele's social commentary hinges.

(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.

Damien Chazelle has taken a relatively staid subject like the relationship between a music student and his teacher and turned it into a thriller built on a brilliant undercurrent of social commentary about what it takes to make it in an increasingly competitive and cutthroat world.

A black and white philosophy that the hotel dwellers and forest people merely operate on two extreme sides of the same coin, equally governed by shallow and trivial rules, shying away from any real emotion and humanity, fascinates as social commentary, but ultimately makes an absolutely funny and often unique film feel narratively inert.

I'm super excited to see just what direction this series takes because there's a lot of mythology to explore here and plenty of opportunity for social commentary that will make this futuristic tale as relevant as possible.

As in 28 Days Later, which at least makes gestures toward social commentary, the zombies are fast and focused, barely pausing to savor «Brains!

Make no mistake, this is a film that is as enraptured by its bloodletting as it is it by its preoccupation with social commentary.

Godard makes it a mix of character study, social commentary and street tragedy broken into twelve distinct tableaux (the full French title is Vivre sa vie: Film en douze tableaux), many of them composed of carefully arranged long takes by Raoul Coutard.

«Better Luck Tomorrow» is not just a thriller, not just a social commentary, not just a comedy or a romance, but all of those in a clearly seen, brilliantly made film.

However, by so doing, the Coens knowingly made a decision to stick to their story without razzle - dazzle, convinced of its power to compel without need for gimmicks and underlying social commentary.

Long pauses in Harrison's track make it a slog, but at lest Jewison has a sense of humor, occasionally chuckling at the ways the film is now dated even as he stands by its perceptive social commentary.

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

The Blumhouse catalogue includes Get Out, Split, Happy Death Day and the Insidious, Sinister and Purge franchises: conspicuously well - made movies that often splice social commentary into their scares.

Simply put, this is a very polished and fun piece of filmmaking that delivers futuristic technology, special effects, humor, mystery, political intrigue, social commentary, action, adventure, and a few frozen bodies (which, coupled with margarita mix, makes a killer drink) by the transporter load.