Tag: Satire
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Slasher Satire, Halloween Midnight Movie – IndieWire – Armessa Movie News
[ad_1] On Friday nights, IndieWire After Dark takes a feature-length beat to honor fringe cinema in the streaming age. First, the spoiler-free pitch for one editor’s midnight movie pick — something weird and wonderful from any age of film that deserves our memorializing. Then, the spoiler-filled aftermath as experienced by the unwitting editor attacked by this week’s recommendation. The…
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CLUB ZERO, Dieting Satire Hits Close to Home – Armessa Movie News
[ad_1] Who among us has not sought to examine our eating habits in the interest of being healthier or losing a few pounds here and there? As is the wont of our keenest satires, Austrian auteur Jessica Hausner starts her dieting-gone-awry tale innocuously enough, with a perfectly reasonable premise. Club Zero introduces us to…
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‘Clone High’ Returns With New Historical Legends and Timely Satire – IndieWire – Armessa Movie News
[ad_1] “Clone High,” the animated MTV cult classic about a high school devoted to teenage clones of historical figures from creators Phil Lord and Chris Miller (the “Spider-Verse” franchise) and Bill Lawrence (“Ted Lasso”), returns with new episodes 20 years after the cancellation of its sole season. The core group has thawed to confront a…
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Is ‘The Muppet Movie’ Satire? – Armessa Movie News
[ad_1] In 1979’s The Muppet Movie, the first official cinematic adventure of Jim Henson‘s band of timeless puppets, it doesn’t take long to break the fourth wall. Inside an old church, Fozzie and Kermit meet Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem — the Muppets’ resident psychedelic band. When he tries to catch them up on…
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Norwegian satire ‘Power Play’ triumphs as six-day Canneseries wraps | News – Armessa Movie News
[ad_1] Norwegian political satire series Power Play was named best series as the sixth annual Canneseries (April 14-19) came to a close on the Riveria. The series from Norway’s NRK was the last of the 10-strong competition titles to screen at the six-day event, but triumphed with the festival’s top prize in addition to the…
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Power Play – First Look Trailer – Norwegian w subtitles – A raucous satire inspired by the real-life goings on behind the scenes when politician Gro Harlem Brundtland came to power in Norway in 1981.- Playlists
[ad_1] Power Play – First Look Trailer – Norwegian w subtitles – A raucous satire inspired by the real-life goings on behind the scenes when politician Gro Harlem Brundtland came to power in Norway in 1981. [ad_2] View Reddit by slyall – View Source Playlists
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INFINITY POOL, Brutal, Bloody, Effective Satire – Armessa Movie News
[ad_1] Watching your own execution can change you, sometimes irrevocably. Being forced to watch said execution after paying for the one-time creation of a body double (clone) to serve as your surrogate can cause a debilitating existential crisis with apparently no way out or back. That core idea, at least, serves as the premise —…
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Emilia Clarke’s The Pod Generation Is A Clever Sci-Fi Satire About The Future Of Pregnancy- Armessa Movie News
[ad_1] While sci-fi fans like myself wait for the highly-anticipated sixth season of Black Mirror to be released, one movie on the 2023 Sundance Film Festival lineup, The Pod Generation, provided the kind of ‘what if’ that could have fit with other episodes of the Netflix series. The movie stars Game of Thrones’ Emilia Clarke…