Word: satiricism
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It’s virtually impossible to talk about The Magnetic Fields, the main musical vehicle for crooning NYC songwriter Stephen Merritt, without mentioning their calling card, 1999’s staggering “69 Love Songs.” With that album, Merritt gave birth to a project...
That makes me a bad person. But I must not be alone, because America has a new favorite Christmas movie. A Christmas Story, the 1983 tale about Ralphie (Peter Billingsley), a 9-year-old in 1940s Indiana, and his lust for a Red Ryder air rifle, is everything Wonderful Life...
All of these entertainments find satiric fun in the inequities and absurdities of the English class system. But it is not so much fun to those in the lower castes. At mid-century, critics of the system saw class as a dungeon from which few escaped into the empyrean of...
AH: It has totally surprised me! I'm a superstitious Greek peasant so I never count my goats before they hatch. As for our future plans, we're looking to build on what we're doing by adding more video, more investigative pieces, more satiric content. And we've just...
But the beauty of TIFF, with an unseeable total slate of 261 features in 10 whirlwind days, is that each moviegoer creates his own festival. And the hottest Toronto ticket, the buzz bomb of the Great White North, is another Brit-American mockumentary that is just as politically pointed as...