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2022 San Francisco Mime Troupe: Back to the Way Things Were — Velina Brown Interview

June 27, 2022 By Leave a Comment

2022 San Francisco Mime Troupe: Back to the Way Things Were — Velina Brown Interview

Click here to listen to the interview. The San Francisco Mime Troupe returns after a two-year hiatus from live performances with the musical satire Back to the Way Things Were. It’s a timely (of course) look at intergenerational worldviews and a pointed examination of where nostalgia fails, It’s directed by Velina Brown, who, like the… Read More »

Tagged With: capitalism, covid, live theater, nostalgia, pandemic, satire

BAD LUCK BANGING OR LOONY PORN

January 21, 2022 By Leave a Comment

BAD LUCK BANGING OR LOONY PORN

BAD LUCK BANGING OR LOONEY PORN is neither for the intellectually timid nor the prudish. Radu Jude’s romp through cultural hypocrisy and the human penchant for being not just cruel, but also idiots, is designed to confront and confound with savage humor and brutal satire. Lest we have any illusions about the direct approach Jude… Read More »

Tagged With: amateur porn, Bucharest, dialectics, full frontal, nudity, obscenity, Romania, satire

KEEP AN EYE OUT (Au Poste)

March 4, 2021 By Leave a Comment

KEEP AN EYE OUT (Au Poste)

The French title of Quentin Dupieux’s latest film, KEEP AN EYE OUT, relies on a clever bit of wordplay in its two words, AU POSTE. One of the meanings of poste is police station, where the action takes place. Another is post, as in taking up one’s post. There are more, the translation of which… Read More »

Tagged With: 1970s, murder, oyster, police drama, pun, satire

I BLAME SOCIETY

January 11, 2021 By Leave a Comment

I BLAME SOCIETY

I’m not giving anything away to tell you the punch line in Gillian Wallace Horvat’s I BLAME SOCIETY. It’s a perfectly timed, and even more perfectly delivered explanation about the film her character made in the course of this vicious, and viciously funny satire: I’m sorry it didn’t meet your expectations, I didn’t make it… Read More »

Tagged With: black comedy, blonde, likeable female lead, patriarchy, pointed social commentary, satire, serial killer, strong female lead

THE TWENTIETH CENTURY

November 20, 2020 By Leave a Comment

THE TWENTIETH CENTURY

It’s possible that a working knowledge of Canadian culture and politics might annotate the sheer joy of watching Matthew Rankin’s THE TWENTIETH CENTURY, but a lack of same in no way diminishes it. This rapturously surreal romp through fascism, propaganda, and the perils of love delights in its arch embrace of retro-futuristic artifice and vintage… Read More »

Tagged With: cactus, Canada, Canada Geese, imperialism, politics, satire, surrealism

THE HUNT

March 22, 2020 By Leave a Comment

THE HUNT

No one is spared in Nick Cuse and Damon Lindelof’s THE HUNT, nor, as, will be revealed by the end, should they be. Our intrepid filmmakers have eschewed taking sides in the current political morass, instead opting for a more challenging take on the foibles of human nature itself. A bold move guaranteed to raise… Read More »

Tagged With: black comedy, metaphor, political correctness, satire

THE OATH — Ike Barinholtz Interview

October 21, 2018 By Leave a Comment

THE OATH — Ike Barinholtz Interview

Click here to listen to the interview. he family Thanksgiving dinner can be a tricky time as many, and not necessarily, compatible personalities and opinions converge over a table groaning with too much food. In the current, and fraught, political climate, that is even more true. Ike Barniholtz, writer/director/co-star of THE OATH, took that idea… Read More »

Tagged With: flared nostril, loyalty oath, politics, Red Scare, satire, Thanksgiving

DOWNSIZING

December 21, 2017 By 1 Comment

DOWNSIZING

DOWNSIZING is a film that cries out to be admired. Pondered. Parsed. Philosophical propositions and social commentary flit by in a mad whirl of arch observation and deadpan dea as we are invited to consider a veritable cornucopia of topics, all eminently worthy of examination. The class struggle and the human propensity for prejudice; the… Read More »

Tagged With: materialism, Omaha, prejudice, satire, social commentary

TICKLING GIANTS — Dr. Bassem Youssef & Sara Taksler Interview

October 24, 2017 By Leave a Comment

TICKLING GIANTS — Dr. Bassem Youssef & Sara Taksler Interview

Often called the Egyptian Jon Stewart, Dr. Bassem Youssef was the star of a wildly popular television show there that satirized politics in ways that country had never seen. Likely it won’t see one like it again any time soon. The show, entitled, “The Show,” was taken off the air despite high ratings when the… Read More »

Tagged With: censorship, Donald Trump, Dr. Bassem Youssef, Egypt, freedom of expression, Glen Beck, jon stewart, Jordan Klepper, media, political satire, protest, satire, Tahrir Square, Ted Cruz, the Koch brothers

THE BRAND NEW TESTAMENT (Le tout nouveau testament )

December 29, 2016 By Leave a Comment

THE BRAND NEW TESTAMENT (Le tout nouveau testament )

THE BRAND NEW TESTAMENT is a clever and wise deconstruction of dogma and patriarchy. Taking as its premise that God  (Benoît Poelvoorde) is real, but less than benevolent, it gives us the story of his other child, the one who didn’t get her own book and who doesn’t like the status quo and takes it… Read More »

Tagged With: fantasy, God, homelessness, poetic justice, religion, satire, testament

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