Sentences with phrase «witty satire»

It set the standard for sharp and witty satire with its iPhone line ads, but it also dredged the depths of atrocity with some of its Galaxy Gear promos.

This witty satire of show - biz politics, told from the perspectives of four New York teenage siblings in the eye of a publicity tornado, provides a fascinating insider's look at the world of the rich and famous.

It's a witty satire that can be enjoyed on a number of levels.

Lee swings wildly between witty satire and vital polemic, somehow achieving his most resonant and entertaining film in ages.

Our Man in Havana is a dryly witty satire of the spy game.

In fact, it's a witty satire shot beautifully through Soloway's style and offers career best roles to both Hahn and Bacon.

Not exact matches

Don't believe the hype promoting 3 - D; seek out the daring, witty confrontations of the oppositional satires of Neveldine «Taylor.

Occasional pacing issues aside, «The LEGO Movie» is sheer joy: the script is witty, the satire surprisingly pointed and the animation tactile and imaginative.

In Danny Huston «s studio mogul and Harvey Keitel «s scrappy agent, the film finds mouthpieces for what is essentially straight - up Hollywood satire, reminiscent of the disastrous «SimOne,» but much better and a good deal wittier.

But once it gets going, and Lou starts to make his way, Gilroy's film becomes a witty and confident satire that echoes the themes of films like Network and Broadcast News.

After the snappy, clever 2011 original, this sequel feels rather lazy by comparison: it's still visually colourful and sometimes witty, but the overcrowded story is all over the place, mixing wacky slapstick and corny satire...

However, the political satire seems to be a bit less prevalent than the situational comedy, making it slightly less witty, but still very smart.

Occasional pacing issues aside, The LEGO Movie is sheer joy: The script is witty, the satire surprisingly pointed, and the animation tactile and imaginative.

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).

From 1992 to 1998 Garry Shandling was doing something similar with the television series The Larry Sanders Show, which directed its witty and vicious satire towards late night television.

The 1992 film The Player assembled a huge cast of famous actors to play versions of themselves in director Robert Altman's witty and vicious satire of Hollywood.

Get Out from comedian turned filmmaker Jordan Peele masters a delicate balance of witty thriller, social satire, modern horror, and commentary on race on the so - called «post-racial» era.

The witty and mobile satire of traditional tabletop RPGs delivered solid gameplay with humor that kept us coming back for more.

It is witty; it's always upbeat and mostly very entertaining, A solid, funny though clunky political satire with a strong lead hitting all of the right notes.

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?

The political satire is intelligent and trenchant (and, it should be noted, far wittier than almost anything in «Our Brand Is Crisis»), the action is thrilling, the characters are empathetic, and while its taken me three previous movies to get there, I find myself getting chills when her fellow rebels give Katniss (Jennifer Lawrence) that three - fingered salute of defiance.

We're just hoping they don't forget the smart satire and witty dialogue that made the first one so good.

Drawing his inspiration from pop culture and American expressionist painters such as Willem de Kooning, Todd James, often called «master of modern - day satire» seems to strip down his characters to a cartoon level showing them in absurd and meaningful situations as a witty comment to todays society and reality.

From my holiday viewing habits, Netflix now seems fairly (and justifiably) certain that I will be intrigued by content categories such as «Crime Comedies», «Absurd Satires», «Witty British TV Shows» and «Critically - Acclaimed Movies from the 1980s».