Sentences with phrase «social satire with»

Canadians have always been at the vanguard of zombie movies, from Bob Clark's Deathdream, an inspired variation on the «Monkey's Paw» myth about a reanimated soldier returning to his family, to David Cronenberg's still - amazing Rabid, which cross-bred George A. Romero's gory social satire with soft - core titillation, to Bruce McDonald's underseen, language - is - the - virus thriller Pontypool.

Sorry to Bother You is clearly mixing in social satire with its hallucinogenic humour.

Ines exhausting and demanding job is emblematic of women in the workforce writ large, and Ade's many pointed barbs at corporate culture makes for studious social satire with a thirst - quenching feminist tilt to it.

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.

Zardoz (Twilight Time, Blu - ray) is one of the most fascinatingly misguided sci - fantasies of the seventies, a truly strange social satire with counterculture echoes: think of Brave New World by way of The Wizard of Oz (which is where the film gets its title).

Not exact matches

«Stripping and burlesque — and even porn, ultimately — overlap significantly with parody, satire and thumbing your nose at political, social and religious elites,» he says.

Scenes of Joe fighting with contractors or negotiating rectory politics are pure comedy of manners, while scenes that take place at «the Great Badger, the Discount House with a heart,» veer more toward 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.

«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.

I wet my pants with glee at this biting social satire!

It's sexy, smart and funny, but also stylish and filled with social satire and commentary on the culture of money.

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.

Critic Consensus: Filled with lighthearted humor, timely social commentary, and dazzling visuals, Pleasantville is an artful blend of subversive satire and well - executed Hollywood formula.

Critics Consensus: Filled with lighthearted humor, timely social commentary, and dazzling visuals, Pleasantville is an artful blend of subversive satire and well - executed Hollywood formula.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Satirical Story with Divergent Paths and Multiple Endings Playing off common anime and video game tropes for social satire, the player's choices determine how the story progresses, leading to one of many unique endings.

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.

However you consume them, the behind - the - scenes stories, from John Barry's intentions (he said he thought of it as a love story) to Martin Amis's motivation for taking the script - writing job (apparently he was a sci - fi buff before becoming a novelist famous for literary social satire) to Kirk Douglas's behaviour on set (Amis later said that Douglas «wanted to be naked,» and very much wanted Fawcett to be naked with him), are delicious.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Favorites of the Moon: 30th Anniversary Edition (Cohen, Blu - ray, DVD), winner of the Special Jury Prize at the 1984 Cannes Film Festival, is a deadpan satire of modern life and social hypocrisy with characters, rich and poor alike, from a lively Paris suburb whose lives criss - cross and tangle with one another.

And with those words, the Oakland - based rapper Boots Riley, making a knockout filmmaking debut as writer and director, spins a social satire that'll make you laugh till it hurts, Stanfield, so good in Get Out, hits all that right notes from mirth to malice.

Most social / political satires forget to balance character with plot, or worse, the thin jokes collapse under the pressure of an easy, likeable third - act conclusion.

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.

While it opens with the promise of a modern take on the 1983 comedic classic Trading Places — which featured some truly biting racial and social satire — Get Hard rapidly devolves into nothing more than a sorry excuse to trot out the stereotypes it purports to subvert.

And so, with a slippery smooth melding of social conscience and satire, British firebrand Ben Wheatley (Kill List) chose for his fifth feature to conform the skyscraping High - Rise, knowing full well the risks involved in such a structure.

Written by Peter Straughan, and according to its credits «inspired» by the 2005 documentary film of the same name, «Our Brand is Crisis» uneasily mixes the star vehicle with the screwball - political - comedy / satire with the (half - heartedly, in the end) impassioned call to social consciousness arms.

Despite a premise absolutely dripping with social satire, Jonze insists no grand statements exists at the core of Her.

Major Barbara (1941), a satire of charity and hypocrisy with a paean to the glories of capitalism and industrialization that feels partially influence by wartime patriotism, preserves the social debate and witty dialogue of the play and succeeds on the personality brought to the screen by a top - notch cast (Wendy Hiller, Rex Harrison, Robert Morley, Robert Newton and a young Deborah Kerr among them).

It's a macabre and inspired conceit, and one mined for biting social satire by writer / director Brian Taylor on his first solo outing since his gonzo collaborations with Mark Neveldine (the Crank films, Gamer), which similarly provoked and parodied cultural bugaboos.»

by Walter Chaw With the frantic, infernal energy (and cats) and even a little of the barbed social satire of Mikhail Bulgakov's Master and Margarita, Hayao Miyazaki protégé Hiroyuki Morita's directorial debut The Cat Returns is undone a little by its hysteria but salvaged by its artistry and smarts.

Tyler MacIntyre's Tragedy Girls is a satire of slasher movies and social media that opens with the stuff of urban legend: a teenage girl running away from a masked, trenchcoated murderer who just split open her date's face with a knife.

As a director, Bong's great skill is soulful social satire, juxtaposing the absurd with surprisingly touching moments that help his films retain a kind of humanism that can sometimes be lacking in satirical works.

Ten more: S. Craig Zahler's Brawl in Cell Block 99, a violent yarn with an indomitable Vince Vaughn performance; BPM, a moving look at AIDS activists in Paris; Before I Fall, a teen Groundhog Day; Luca Guadagnino's Call Me by Your Name, a lush holiday at an Italian villa; Christopher Nolan's Dunkirk, with its ingenious time - shifting narrative; Alexander Payne's social comedy Downsizing; William Oldroyd's Lady Macbeth, a period piece with bite; the uneven but lively satire The Square; Steven Soderbergh's clever heist picture Logan Lucky; and the Twilight Zone vibe of The Killing of a Sacred Deer.

After The Lobster's dystopian trip soaked in masterful social satire, writer / director Yorgos Lanthimos re-teams with leading man Colin...

Having co-written and co-starred in the wonderful Sightseers, Steve Oram makes his directorial debut with this utterly bizarre comedy horror that blends social satire, surreal domestic fantasy, gross - out comedy and wince - inducing gore to winning effect.

It's a very funny zombie gore farce with pointed social satire and punctured political rhetoric.

Filled to the brim with cheeky social commentary, this is one of those rare action films that hits you heavy with satire, while also engaging you on the surface level with an intriguing story and a strong visceral dynamic.

In addition to writing another, as - yet - untitled social satire à la Get Out, he's turning his attention to television, excavating our deepest horrors with an HBO series (produced with J. J. Abrams) about the Jim Crow South called Lovecraft Country; another one centered on a group of 1970s Nazi hunters, Black Klansman; and then, of course, a reboot of The Twilight Zone, where he can take his specific talent for merging horror, social commentary, and a dose of sci - fi and apply it to the revered TV series, which he will re-imagine with X-Men: Dark Phoenix director Simon Kinberg.