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The Onion writers question what's left to mock
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March 19, 2018 Screens Post by Mary Tuma
Chronicle Recommends: Scary Political Thrillers
If current politics aren't scary enough for you, check out these films
"...the upcoming presidential election, we’ve chosen our favorite scary political thrillers...."
Oct. 7, 2016 Screens Post by Chronicle Film Staff
Star Wars Satire ¡Estar Guars! Gets Laughs and Gets Political
Latino Comedy Project takes on planetary issues
"...is back with its latest show, a Star Wars satire appropriately enough called ¡Estar Guars!. It imagines an alternative..."
May 1, 2019 Arts Post by Savannah J Salazar
Filmmaker Bruce LaBruce Gets "Provocative and Political!"
Getting explicit and merciless in The Misandrists
"...cry, one part queer camp, and one part critical satire, The Misandrists will certainly make the squeamish squirm, but..."
July 20, 2018 Screens Feature by Sarah Marloff
The Satire's Still Timely in Gilbert & Sullivan Austin's Iolanthe
And the topsy-turvy team's show delivers a fanciful fairy tale, to boot
"...What will audiences in Austin today think of their satire? Eternal optimist MacPhail Jr. says, "I think they will..."
June 21, 2019 Arts Feature by M. Brianna Stallings
Political Books, Part 1
Political writers and writing politicians head to the Capitol this weekend to talk up their tomes at the Texas Book Festival.
"...in Al) will be talking about her new presidential satire Sammy's House in the Senate Chamber at 10am. With..."
Nov. 3, 2007 News Post by Richard Whittaker
Satire Wasn't Very Effective
"...Biden may have said that he was referring to "political baggage" after he made that quote, but I think..."
March 26, 2007 Postmarks
It's Time for Political War
"...national security, fiscal soundness, corporate accountability, and democracy are. Satire will not protect us from the radical Islamic terrorists..."
Dec. 12, 2003 Postmarks
UT's Student Government Winners Mix Substance With Satire
UT elects satirical candidates for student government
"...since Hank the Hallucination – a cartoon – beat now-noted political consultant Paul Begala in 1982. (Due to questionable circumstances,..."
March 27, 2015 News Feature by Mac McCann
Completely Partisan Satire
"...the right are driven from our country. Since the political right in America is a tiny minority of creepy..."
Oct. 4, 2007 Postmarks
Guantanamera
"...Conchita Brando. This surprisingly graceful blend of romance, cynical political satire, magical realism, and Forties road-pic shenanigans is the..."
Oct. 10, 1997 Movie Review by Russell Smith
Bulworth
"...himself as an artist. Thus he has created this political satire that's as fresh and exhilarating as anything we've..."
May 22, 1998 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Primary Colors
"...seems enervated; it never really rollicks like a good political satire. (The marketing department for the film's distributor, Universal..."
March 27, 1998 Movie Review by Steve Davis
My Fellow Americans
"...in which Lemmon and Garner are ex-presidents (and mortal political enemies) on the lam from rogue federal agents acting..."
Dec. 20, 1996 Movie Review by Russell Smith
The Death of Stalin
Russia's political upheaval rewritten as dark farce.
"...midcentury Soviet history isn’t required to appreciate this latest political satire from Britain’s Armando Iannucci. The Death of Stalin..."
March 16, 2018 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones
In the Loop
In the Loop is a scabrous and funny study of how an offhand remark by a career politician can metastasize into an international conflict and, ultimately, war.
"...Chris Addison, Anna Chlumsky, Mimi Kennedy and David Rasche. Political vitriol, when dispensed with razored, rapier aplomb, is a..."
Aug. 14, 2009 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
The Campaign
A wan political comedy guaranteed to offend no one.
"...to crank out a comedic antidote to the toxic political madness that has engulfed our nation, now is the..."
Aug. 10, 2012 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
War, Inc.
John Cusack's War, Inc. rails against the military-industrial complex in a barely disguised contemporary story about covert operations.
"...by the military-industrial complex. War, Inc. is a black-ops satire crossbred from the cine-genes of Dr. Strangelove on holiday..."
June 13, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Founders Day
Slasher political satire should fall on its own blade
"...but then further weighed down by a truly gormless political analogy. Not only is there a serial killer dressed..."
Jan. 19, 2024 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker
Hang the DJ
The new political theatre invites you into its messy, sexy conversation
"...A year ago in London, I saw a political play called, no kidding, Myth, Propaganda and Disaster in..."
Jan. 20, 2006 Arts Feature by Katherine Catmull
Drawing Fire
Political cartoonist Ted Rall on war reporting in Afghanistan and the new media battleground
"...Political cartoonist, writer, and author Ted Rall is never out..."
March 8, 2013 Screens Feature by Audra Schroeder
Stacey Abrams, Lawrence Wright Announced for Texas Book Festival
First wave of authors spans poetry to novels to kids books
"...in her role as a thriller novelist, not a political activist and defender of civil rights...."
July 31, 2023 Arts Post by Richard Whittaker
Jokes Aside, Trevor Noah Actually Wants To Inform You
The Daily Show host on the 5:30pm curse and comedy in the Trump era
"...the way first – no one can truly “replace” political satirist godfather Jon Stewart. His acerbic wit and genuine..."
March 9, 2019 SXSW Post by Mary Tuma
HBO Going Under the Dome for 'God Save Texas'
Lights, camera, point of order in new political drama
"...legislature: HBO has announced it is developing a new political fiction series, set under our famous Capitol dome...."
June 18, 2014 News Post by Richard Whittaker
Theatre Review: Trinity Street Playhouse’s A Million More to Go
Play examines preposterous political climes with chuckles galore
June 21, 2024 Arts Feature by Cat McCarrey
SXSW Film Review: Long Shot
Rogen and Theron are charming in charmless political rom-com
"...tediously juvenile Sausage Party). So it’s an oddity that political rom-com Long Shot is neither here nor there...."
March 10, 2019 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker
The Hunt
Scathing action-satire is more than Elites versus Deplorables
"...missing all the context that makes this big, nasty satire the political throat punch/rallying cry we all need...."
March 13, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker
Foreword
Previewing the 2006 Texas Book Festival
"...to The New Yorker and the mind behind the political humor Web site The Borowitz Report, Andy Borowitz has..."
Oct. 27, 2006 Books Feature by Josh Rosenblatt
Southland Tales
Six years after Donnie Darko, filmmaker Richard Kelly returns with this incomprehensible, self-indulgent mess of post-apocalyptic anxiety, political paranoia, and pop-culture references.
"...is an incomprehensible, self-indulgent mess of post-apocalyptic anxiety and political paranoia, a confusion of half-baked social critiques, pop-culture references,..."
Nov. 16, 2007 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt
The Madness of King George
"...symptoms of insanity. Whatever the cause, the effect was political turmoil, a fight to replace the seemingly mad king..."
