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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
"This bleakly funny New York-set fable" is about "acting, masks and, oh yes, the ultimate emptiness of the self", said Kevin Maher in The Times. Marvel veteran Sebastian Stan dons prosthetics to ...