Sentences with phrase «of social satire»

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....

As long as he plays to his strengths in comedy with a tinge of social satire, and delivers us a little something new with the action, this could definitely surprise.

The continuing glut of zombie movies hasn't taken any bite out of this social satire, in which slackers find it hard to tell when their fellow citizens start lumbering about and feasting on humans.

Get Out has the creeping dread and insidious normalcy of those classic 1970s horrors, as well as bracing undercurrents of social satire.

It can also be seen as a snapshot analysis of social satire, a» la the 1989 Billy Warlock film «Society.»

It was once star Colin Farrell escaped into the woods and lived with the loners that the movie revealed the full swing of its social satire.

The third episode, «Some Hope,» set at an elaborate country house party where the guests await the arrival of Princess Margaret, is more of a social satire in the «Gosford Park» vein.

The Stepford Wives meets Guess Who's Coming to Dinner in Get Out (2017), the directorial debut of writer / comedian Jordan Peele, a tricky and successful mix of social satire, modern horror, and savvy commentary on race as experienced by a person of color in a largely white society.

As a thriller, Black Swan doesn't do much more than graft a few phantom frames onto the periphery of Jean Benoit - Levy's Ballerina, Altman's The Company, or Powell / Pressburger's The Red Shoes — but note how the picture owes its creepy intensity to the sort of social satire - through - body horror popularized by David Cronenberg.

Often playing like an Adult Swim version of Putney Swope, Sorry to Bother You is a brazen, insane work of social satire, ready to get as surreal and ridiculous as humanly possible while making a ton of amazing observations regarding our current political and racial climate.

Less of a social satire about the perils of modern technology than an over-the-top heave of ideas about the obsessive need to be noticed and (literally) liked, Tragedy Girls isn't a deep meditation on much.

Yet what makes Great Expectations far more than a piece of social satire is that he so thoroughly interrelated the social and natural orders, showing them both to be parts of the same capricious and heterogeneous process.

Now in its 20th Season, South Park remains one of the most powerful forces of social satire on the air today.

LA - based master of social satire Eric Yahnker has struck again at downtown art oasis The Hole in NYC with his new Read More

His familiar, often long - legged, figures, embodying a unique blend of social satire, fantasy, and an affectionate eye for everyday life, have long been recognized as a distinctive contribution to American art.