Sentences with phrase «social satire in»

SYNOPSIS (via iMDB): A social satire in which a guy realizes he would have a better life if he were to shrink himself.

Not much is known about the project thus far except that the story, written by Payne and his Sideways co-writer Jim Taylor, is «a social satire in which a guy realizes he would have a better life if he were to shrink...

The film attempts to juxtapose extremely heightened, broad farce with social satire in a period setting along with dark subject matters such as cannibalism and incest.

SYNOPSIS: A social satire in which a guy realizes he would have a better life if he were to shrink himself.

Not exact matches

As you probably know, The Hunger Games is a young adult novel in which children are pitted against each other in a violent death match, serving as a social satire...

Daily Show alum Samantha Bee stormed the late night scene in 2016 with some of the most biting and unflinching satire and social commentary on TV.

Yes, there are dangers with satire, but there are much, much greater dangers — social and personal — involved in its suppression.

Now, Hamsher's photo was satire, and satire's always a little dangerous — particularly when it's about race, probably the most sensitive social ground in this country.

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».

Now, I've written science, satire, and done interviews, as well as worked on a social media campaign for the Kellogg Biological Station in Hickory Corners, Michigan.

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«Conquest of the Planet of the Apes» is cinematically etched in broad, brash strokes slashing social satire and science fiction suspense with large - scale spectacle.

Has a profoundly whimsical sense of poetic justice told in bright colors, sincere performances, and bracing social satire.

The following year, she had a small role in Harold French's social satire English Without Tears.

The screenplay by Alan Zweibel and Andrew Scheinman packs more on - target social satire than any film in recent memory, and zesty performances keep it clicking along at a rapid pace.

The Simpsons still finds out how to bring a few laughs of its bizarre social satire, but in its 27th season it lacks much of its charm, originality and clever writing, enough to consider the show's possibly retirement.

The versatile actor (who dons a much different uniform in The Messenger, an Iraq War — related drama opening here later this month) is the principal reason to see Defendor, an engaging social satire that doesn't quite pay off.

In the end, the whole enterprise comes off as too clever for its own good, a social satire without a clear target.

Smart without being smart - mouthed, shrewd without being calculated, and quite obviously the work of a filmmaker with something important to say and a clear and impish way of saying it, Jerry Maguire is a triumph of nuanced social satire masquerading as a commercial romantic comedy, a movie that can both make fun of and wallow in its celebration of the crass spectacle American sport has become.

In addition to directing the George Clooney headlined social satire / thriller Money Monster, Foster has called the shots on episodes of Netflix series House of Cards, Orange is the New Black, and Black Mirror over that period of time.

Colin Farrell must get hitched or die tryin» in this brilliant, bizarre social satire costarring Rachel Weisz

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.

Film Review by Kam Williams Headline: Amnesiac Adjusts to Soulless Utopia in Wry Social Satire Suppose you were suffering from amnesia and suddenly found yourself inexplicably welcomed to an unfamiliar city you don't recognize by soulless strangers who inform you that you're an accountant before escorting you to your new home.

In Sergei Loznitsa's weighty social comment «A Gentle Creature,» a woman in the Russian countryside quietly sets out to deliver a care package to her (presumably wrongfully) imprisoned husband and encounters such heavy obstacles that would play as satire if they weren't so dramatiIn Sergei Loznitsa's weighty social comment «A Gentle Creature,» a woman in the Russian countryside quietly sets out to deliver a care package to her (presumably wrongfully) imprisoned husband and encounters such heavy obstacles that would play as satire if they weren't so dramatiin the Russian countryside quietly sets out to deliver a care package to her (presumably wrongfully) imprisoned husband and encounters such heavy obstacles that would play as satire if they weren't so dramatic.

This portrayal of the fictional black Louis Lester Band in aristocratic Britain is loosely based on the experiences of the real - life Duke Ellington Band, spiced up with mystery, music, and social satire.

unlike babyface which could be deemed as a social satire about a ghetto girl's eager angst to clander to the top in search of power, harlow's reddish circe is more like a ridicule of sex such as the scene she's trapped in the phonebooth and the absurd connotation of sadism & masochism as harlow remarks «do it again!

A bit Alexander Payne social satire, a bit Mike Judge's «Office Space,» «The Promotion» keeps the laughter mostly low - key while addressing deflating truths about occupational angst - writer / director Steve Conrad's sturdy thematic stock - in - trade.

In other hands, a zombie movie is just a zombie movie, but Land of the Dead, a horror film laced with rife with social commentary, political satire, and black humor, is not just a return to the genre he practically single - handedly created (or at least definitively redefined), but a return to form.

The horror movie / social satire, which plays with the very real fears that come with being a young black man in today's America, is a confident, assured work crammed full of wit, clever twists and surprising depth.

A terrific work of political and social satire set in a Nebraska high school that has the intelligence of (the less coherent) «Rushmore,» while painting a much darker picture of politics and human relationships.

This incarnation of Fanny may not have been what Austen had in mind, but she surely would have approved, for the injection of attitude and smarts makes Mansfield Park a much more wicked and irresistible social satire, with Fanny frequently needling the pomposity of her rich relations.

Director McMurray may have taken a more studious approach than did Spike Lee in «School Daze,» a social satire set on an African American campus, but he and co-writer Christine Berg have internalized Z's journey at the expense of deeper character development and creating any mounting tension.

In the translation from two to three dimensions, and in the hands of director Matthew Vaughn, the redeeming social satire gets entirely lost in the chaos of bad taste and underlying misogynIn the translation from two to three dimensions, and in the hands of director Matthew Vaughn, the redeeming social satire gets entirely lost in the chaos of bad taste and underlying misogynin the hands of director Matthew Vaughn, the redeeming social satire gets entirely lost in the chaos of bad taste and underlying misogynin the chaos of bad taste and underlying misogyny.

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.

Olive releases two films from late in Preminger's career, one an overheated melodrama set in 1946 Georgia where the antebellum past is still alive, if not at all well, the other (Such Good Friends) a modern social satire about friendship and betrayal in the wake of the sexual revolution.

The Man in the White Suit (1951) is too tame to be a genuine social satire, but the madcap chase to stop mild mannered inventor and idealist Guinness from unleashing his invention — a textile that never wears out and never gets dirty — finds capital and labor in the unusual position of teaming up to protect their mutual interests.

With the spotlight on the two minorities, the script also reaches new objectives and accomplishes more as a social satire than most serious films have in the past decade.

A budding romance, however, is only one story line in this satire that also investigates the social concerns of a growing (in more ways than one) population.

The Lobster was a bit of a shock for everyone who went in expecting an off - kilter black romance — instead director Yorgos Lanthimos served up a disquieting social satire with underpinnings of horror as his first English - language feature.

Rich and Strange is a strange entry indeed in the Alfred Hitchcock filmography, but his sensibility is very much present in the stragne social satire and black comedy.

Cowritten by Brooks and Monica Johnson, this satire of Hollywood is embellished with sharp, frequently hilarious observation of its ritual humiliations and shallow social and professional interactions, with notable contributions from Jeff Bridges as a self - absorbed Oscar - winning screenwriter friend, Steven Wright as Stan Spielberg («I'm Steven's cousin»), and Martin Scorsese in a self - parodying cameo.

Get Out: The most astonishing writing - directing debut in years, Peele's mash - up of horror and comedy and social satire is, also, flabbergastingly, the most trenchant new movie about American race relations.

The extent of the film's social satire is its democratic nepotism, with Grant having enlisted family and friends to provide the awful (non-stop) soundtrack and the hate - crime performances, all of which are strung together in the sort of loose narrative (two families gather for the titular shindig) that allows Grant to play both slovenly, gap - toothed protagonist Ringworm and his evangelical brother Snake.

An indie director before the term was widely used, George Romero carved his own niche in the horror genre by brilliantly marrying over-the-top blood and guts with sharp social satire.

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.

Halt And Catch Fire / The Martian's Mackenzie Davis stars in San Junipero, a philosophically provocative California - set episode, Joe Wright directs Alice Eve and Bryce Dallas Howard in Nosedive, «a playful satire about social media insecurity», and 10 Cloverfield Lane's Dan Trachtenberg helms Playtest, a video game «horror romp» starring Wyatt Russell.

Combining social satire, a thematic preoccupation with Chinese nationalism and the changing tide of technological development, and a lot of action, Wong Fei Hung (Once Upon a Time in China) never fails to entertain.

In a film that delivers big comedy from a small Damon, sometimes all it takes is a change of perspective to better understand the world in the social satire that is Downsizing, available on Digital from March 28 and 4K Ultra HDTM, Blu - rayTM & DVD from April 11, 201In a film that delivers big comedy from a small Damon, sometimes all it takes is a change of perspective to better understand the world in the social satire that is Downsizing, available on Digital from March 28 and 4K Ultra HDTM, Blu - rayTM & DVD from April 11, 201in the social satire that is Downsizing, available on Digital from March 28 and 4K Ultra HDTM, Blu - rayTM & DVD from April 11, 2018.

Over the course of the three acts, the film's context evolves from social satire (set in a public space) to emotional intimacy (confined to the private space of a single room and a single bed) to domestic drama (set in the awkward private - public space of a family apartment).

Together, the plot and subplot added up to little in the way of social, cultural, or political satire beyond the glaringly, non-controversial obvious («50s suburbia in the U.S. of A. was a hotbed of conformist, racist, and misogynist behavior) and the predictably clichéd (IQ - challenged criminals tend to suffer horribly for their sins, real and imagined to balance out the scales of cosmic justice).