Spinal Tap II has been in preparation for a while now, experiencing a significant delay, but now it has an official release date.
Tropic Thunder is one of those movies that constantly gets brought up in the debate of whether a movie could be made today or not, and 15 years later that debate's only gotten hotter.
The 1990s were a big decade for Hollywood studio-produced political comedies and satires, and the high-concept story of 'Dave' was certainly one of the most heartwarming.
Give Tim Robbins' film 'Bob Roberts' this, three decades after its release: they walked so Dr. Mehmet Oz could run.
Will the arguments never end about Mel Brooks' 'Blazing Saddles'? Brooks' 1974 comedy classic might be the most argued-about older movie of all-time, mostly stemming from whether it could be made today or not.
There's a lot of humor to be mined from the idea of Hollywood coastal elites descending on a small town to make a movie, and in December of 2000, David Mamet's State and Main executed that formula flawlessly.
It's not exactly a golden time for political satire, especially at the movies, but this month marks the 20th anniversary of 'Dick', a beautifully sharp satire of the Watergate scandal.
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Chapell releases a new real-life inspired single, pervaded by a pronouncedly dark sense of parody of Mark Zuckerberg’s testimony to Congress.
With the recent release of Netflix's documentary, "Unacknowledged", and the massive response it's gotten, it's time to look a little deeper into the whole UFO and disclosure controversy by exploring the key 'evidence' accumulated over time and some of the foremost writings on the subject by the likes of Zecharia Sitchin and David Icke. Maybe there is some truth to all of this after all...
Most critics would argue that all films are political to a certain extent, and here's 5 great political satires that weren't afraid to admit their intentions
The 1990s were a time when a lot of filmmakers made movies that were meant to function as manifestos on the political climate of the day, and probably the weirdest one was 'Bulworth.'
Released 15 years ago, 'Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story' fell a bit short in delivering consistent laughs but it was incredibly great at pointing out the clichés of the music biopic genre.
Released 20 years ago, the Eddie Griffin-led 'Undercover Brother' arrived as a loving tribute and parody of '70s blaxploitation films; consistently funny with one of the best soundtracks since the turn of the century.
In 1996's savage satire 'Citizen Ruth', Alexander Payne and lead star, Laura Dern, did the near impossible: make a successful movie about abortion, and make it a comedy to boot.
'Jojo Rabbit' tells a child's-eye view of Nazi Germany and the Holocaust, attempting to splice in some humor and social commentary. While it doesn't fail for the same reason this sort of stuff usually does, fail it does.
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Metaphors, allegory, and satire are very ambitious storytelling approaches that certainly wouldn’t work for all films and ideas, but when done right, the results can be truly eye-opening; they are the sort of art that can change a culture’s course, and usually for the better. And few directors can do it as masterfully as Greek director and screenwriter Yorgos Lanthimos.
