Sentences with phrase «satire into»

Eggers» book pushes past satire into dark farce, where the story's hyperbole feels more like a gag than a coherent warning about the future.

Rockstar have always been excellent at incorporating satire into their games, particularly when it comes to GTA, with billboards, radio chatter and conversational throwaway lines all designed to make us chuckle.

Unfortunately, the internet has brought satire into the mainstream with sites like The Onion and DuffelBlog, and many readers are no longer as aware that the information is not only false, but is intentionally so.

Satire into tragedy probably not worth the amount of work involved as is dystopian survivalist to contemporary romance.

As slow and uncomfortable as anything I've seen on the big screen, the movie devolves from stylish satire into off - the - wall endurance challenge.

May 20, 2018 • In his first solo album in six years, Cooder injects social satire into his refurbished work of traditional American gospel music.

The danger is that the movie might glamorise the leads more than a stage version could — and turn a satire into a romance (director Lone Scherfig's last film was One Day)-- but the trailer suggests the material is still drawing blood, however rich the matinee gloss.

«Get Out» injects social satire into the slasher - flick genre; Peter Travers on why Jordan Peele's race - relations horror film is an instant classic.

this blog is about injecting humor and satire into everyday life with children.

I sent a satire into The Door once with an idea for a Christian game company that created Christian versions of popular games.

Not exact matches

Not unlike Wolfe, his satire of the modern world's oversized egos occasionally turns his characters into cartoons (Yount's wife is a socialite who is selfish to absurdity.

But the caricature is matched by Atwood's considerable subtlety, which challenges us to look deeper into her satire.

The movie might attempt to co-opt the book's problems into satire, but since that repurposing uses the exact same nerd - worship tactics, it can't rise above hypocrisy.

From a limited, bitter satire, Archibald MacLeish's verse drama grew into a larger, poetic statement about the human condition.

Or do we simply want to turn them into a hipster satire that is ruining everything good in this world?

Have you guys ever heard of satire??? You aren't looking into the deeper meaning of the music, just what you see on the surface.

A satire in dialogue form: «A Dissolution of the Many into One Act (Which is indubitably an Epiphany of Eternal Being, Immanent in that Act, which is History, but which inevitably shatters History, and is thus Dialectically Transcendent...)»

As I said before, these are just general observations I've made about humor and satire through the years, and some principles I worked really hard to incorporate into A Year of Biblical Womanhood, which included quite a bit of both.

As with Erasmus's In Praise of Folly or Pascal's Provinical Letters, the best satire is that which fits into a larger moral vision.

Reality - TV addiction is overripe for satire, yet the script here swerves from anything biting, opting for an affectionate look at a family and the rabbit hole this father of three jumps into on...

There will also be many who believe that his brand of satire crosses the line into cruelty too often.

This time last year, the Charlie Hebdo attack felt like a clear attempt to destroy Europe's commitment to free speech and satire - to put fear into the hearts of those who would mock and offend, ridicule and scrutinise.

Handbagged is a fun, touching satire, yet it could be sharper and more dynamic — occasionally it slides into a history lesson.

When satire did not work, the next week November 11, 2015, I returned to explicit economic advisory in «Reversing Economic Slowdown» where I noted that «I have been loud in warning about the dangers of allowing the economy slide into recession and the imperative of policy to prevent that eventuality, on social media, in my Businessday column and in discussions on Channels Television and CNBC Africa, but the sense I get is that many are yet in denial about the reality of our economic conditions».

This despite the fact heavy doses of satire and humor were built into the piece.

Sure, his sharp bi-partisan satire was already segueing into lectures re a vast, astonishingly competent commie conspiracy.

For his part, Hall says others have read too much into his satire, which originated after seeing conference organizers factor Twitter follower numbers into speaker considerations.

The film's greatest achievement is not the political commentary or even satire; it is in turning this material into cinematic entertainment with an acidic touch, combining visuals and audio elements with verve.

That set - up never blossoms into the pungent satire it wants to be, however, because the black hats and white hats have been so obviously delineated that any social commentary becomes utterly blunted.

Kushner nudges his director into satire, for what are politicians if not actors?

It's one in a series of moments where Lanthimos goes a step further into pointed genre satire.

A graduate of the Tuskegee Institute, Wayans entered the comic arena in the mid -»80s by stepping up to the mike and honing his stand - up act, but he later branched out into movies, by scripting the low - budget black satire Hollywood Shuffle (1987) and the aptly - titled comedy vehicle Eddie Murphy: Raw (1987), both for director pal Robert Townsend.

A satire of network television's pitfalls and prejudices, a peek into the way blacks have been represented historically in the media, and the ways in which they have sought to redress the cultural balance (there's a neat look at an extremist hip - hop collective)- it's certainly the nucleus for a meaty and much needed discourse.

UnReal is simultaneously a very dark satire of reality TV and a soap opera that breathes new life into old tropes by placing them in this very familiar, modern setting.

It's starting to play like a Robert Heinlein military satire, where the goats are our fighting men and women instead of the idiot leadership that dropped them into a pressure cooker.

It's an unfunny anthropological variety show that takes some interesting ideas (mostly from Don Symons's seminal text The Evolution of Human Sexuality) and misunderstands them, lacking the strength of its convictions necessary to push the leering slapstick into satire.

Stiller's vanity - free characterization is so strong that it's no wonder Brad's Status feels most unconvincing and thin when it strays from Brad into his former friends» new lives without him — or, more worryingly, into a generic and hollow satire of the woke sensibilities of kids these days, for whom «cis» is an insult.

What clinched the verdict was the social satire subtly packaged into the story: It is a black man who moves in with his girlfriend's mysterious family, and it is race that drives an apparent disparity of power between him and the white family.

Meanwhile, «Dear White People» turned the campus comedy into racial satire for the first time since «School Daze.»

He was so into the socially - aware, Heathers - meets - A Clockwork Orange satire that he had to leave the theater for a moment to compose himself.

Bookies» favourite The Lobster, a British co-production directed by Greek film - maker Yorgos Lanthimos, took the Prix du Jury (or third prize) for his satire about single people who must find a mate within 45 days or be turned into a wild animal.

In the hands of director Matthew Vaughn, this film packs some of the same sly humor as The Princess Bride, although the tone is not nearly as consistent and sometimes topples into broad humor or satire.

This fainthearted bid at social satire stars Nicolas Cage as a middle - aged man gazing into the yawning void of his life.

This film proves Burton has the ability to combine tragedy, comedy, satire and American culture all into one film.

The satire comes in the early post-war period when Americans were still not that aware of how they were being manipulated by hucksters to hawk their products on the radio and films were just getting ready to deal with that subject after a number of books and magazine articles were written tearing into advertisers.

In While We're Young (released a few months ago; now on Blu - ray / DVD) he heightened observational humor into depth - charged comedy - drama or satire - drama, in the manner of Paul Mazursky (Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice, Blume in Love) or Barry Levinson (Diner, What Just Happened).

by Walter Chaw Writer - director Michael Showalter swings for the rafters with his anti-romcom The Baxter and ends up hitting into a double play: it's less a satire of romcom conventions than a meek kowtow before their awesome ubiquity.

Election (Alexander Payne, 1999) A high - school election for student body president turns into a darkly comic satire on politics and sexuality in one of Alexander Payne's uproarious takedowns of Midwestern values.

Throwing a solid Hollywood cast into a surreal arthouse satire, acclaimed Greek filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos (Dogtooth) makes his English - language debut with a bang.

It's exactly the clever jab at 21st century vanity this franchise should own; instead, with its delusions of comedic grandeur, it turns into the same navel - gazing that its satire has been designed point out.