Sentences with phrase «scathing satire»
"Scathing satire" refers to a form of humor that criticizes or mocks something or someone in a very harsh or biting way. It uses exaggeration or irony to make a strong and often critical point about a particular subject. Full definition
Here it is, your chance to make a triumphant return to madcap, screwball comedy or give us a witty, scathing satire of Hollywood, and this is the result?
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Whether you consider it a sci - fi / action flick with scathing satire, or a scathing sci - fi satire with action, They Live is one of Carpenter's best and most thought provoking.
When Sidney Lumet adapted Paddy Chayefsky's scathing satire Network, we were all still at the mercy of three TV networks, whose trusted nightly news anchors were the stentorian voices of God.
And yet these films could hardly be said to provide scathing satire.
What makes Zoolander work is that underpinning the absurdist stylings of Ben Stiller — who returns as not only Derek Zoolander but also the co-writer and director of the sequel — is a fairly scathing satire aimed at the fashion industry and how clueless and insular it can be.
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The Daily Show was unfortunately on hiatus during the last couple weeks of the BP Gulf oil spill, leaving a void where negligent companies should be lampooned and scathing satire delivered.
The first strip, published in an anti-establishment Afrikaner journal, set the tone for much of what was to come: scathing satires of the Afrikaner society in which Kannemeyer and Botes grew up.
What it's about: The type of comedy that would never get made today, «Blazing Saddles» shows Mel Brooks and Gene Wilder at the height of their talents, with a scathing satire on racial attitudes in America.
Another towering performance by the great George C. Scott highlights this scathing satire of the medical field.
The film is at once a moving father - daughter tale, a scathing satire of corporate culture and a rumination on the manner in which people perform in their day to day lives.
Or does it promise something cheekier, a scathing satire about how truly cutthroat corporate culture can be?
This grisly image, which feels plucked straight out of «The Act of Seeing», sets up the film as a scathing satire of the fashion industry.
But how does a studio market a scathing satire about advertising's ultimate triumph over individuality — rumored to have sparked civil - suit threats from featured businesses like Fuddrucker's, Costco and Carl's Jr. and including a brilliant zinger at Fox's own barbarous cable - news division?
It's more the public that helped create them, and even though the film — apart from a somewhat surprising climax — is not the scathing satire it might have been, this is the one area that Weitz doesn't sugar - coat.
At times it feels like it's trying to be a romantic comedy for our cynical, burned - out - on - war age, and at others it feels like it wants to be a scathing satire like In The Loop.
It's equal parts absurdist humor and scathing satire, and it's one of DC's best series that nobody's reading.
However, just as Payne seems to be about to sink his teeth into this story destined to be a scathing satire (sort of High Rise meets Ant - Man), he loses his nerve.
Like another scathing satire of the 70s, Network, The Candidate is a film that doesn't seem so outlandish today — sadly, it is the way things are.
It's in the story though that the real meat and potatoes of the film are to be found with it being a horror film of sharply written and scathing satire.
Force Majeure is a comedy of passive aggressiveness, a scathing satire of masculinity, delivered with Kubrickian unease by writer and director Ruben Östlund.
Readers with long memories will be struck by the way some of the set pieces resemble the scathing satire of a young William S. Burroughs.
The novel is a scathing satire that pulls no punches in its examination of American life today.
Despite the scathing satire, a spokesman for the oil company say they don't plan on fighting to have the fake account taken down.