In Charles Baxter's new novel, a small-town insurance salesman buys a blood test that can predict romantic entanglements, ...

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Some nations elevate their novelists or poets to positions of cultural eminence; Venezuela has long viewed its comedians as among its most important societal expositors. Now, with nearly eight million ...

This isn’t a genteel, buttoned-up satire; it’s an unapologetic carnival of chaos. Carrie Williams is bold in her directorial choices, leaning into slapstick and almost-lampoon-like physical ...

A successful satire needs an edge that cuts and bleeds ... Certainly, there is nothing funny about the Jim Crow south, but Offutt and playwright Davis reveal the truth about that time through ...

I've been watching porn at work for 20 years.' Meet the standup comedians satirizing your boss on the professional networking ...

World leaders played by Denis Ménochet (from left), Rolando Ravello, Nikki Amuka-Bird, Charles Dance, Cate Blanchett, Roy ...

An Act of God” — 3 stars “An Act of God,” the saucy religious satire running at Aurora’s Copley Theatre, finds the Almighty ...

into an actual idea and then an actual movie.” It’s not easy, says Mendes. On the basis of sharp, funny satire The Franchise, that’s putting it mildly. The Franchise airs on Sundays on HBO ...

There’s no shortage of quality either behind or in front of the camera on The Franchise (Sky Comedy, episodes one to three, Monday, October 21), HBO’s satire of superhero movie-making.Armando Iannucci ...

Caustically funny and breathlessly so, “The Franchise” would have had a bit more bite if it didn’t confirm suspicions we probably already have about what lies behind all those cookie-cutter ...

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