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The Craggus (360 KP) rated Sorry to Bother You (2018) in Movies

Dec 6, 2018  
Sorry to Bother You (2018)
Sorry to Bother You (2018)
2018 | Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
10
7.0 (23 Ratings)
Movie Rating
Sorry To Bother You (2018) has nothing to apologise for. #Review
Boots Riley’s absurdist, pitch-black satire may just end up becoming one of the most important and resonant films of our time. Not because its concerned particularly with the topical venality of Trumpism and the ongoing corruption of western political discourse but because it looks beyond these deplorable but ultimately transient phases at the bigger societal picture and savages the superficiality of a social media-driven world sleepwalking into a voluntary corporatocracy....

FULL REVIEW: http://bit.ly/CraggusSTBY
  
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Dean (6927 KP) rated Don't Look Up (2021) in Movies

Feb 6, 2022 (Updated Feb 12, 2022)  
Don't Look Up (2021)
Don't Look Up (2021)
2021 | Comedy
6
7.1 (8 Ratings)
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Great cast (0 more)
Humour is hit and miss (0 more)
Finally got round to watching this on Netflix. Not one that really stood out as a must watch. It does have a great cast of top stars. It's a strange film though, part disaster film and more political satire. Definitely poking fun at a range of people and topics in recent times, especially in America. Conspiracy theorists, social media, Trump supporters. It's a long film and while funny at times I wouldn't say it was hilarious. Worth checking out for the cast.
  
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Michael Jai White recommended Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) in Movies (curated)

 
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
1975 | Comedy
8.9 (48 Ratings)
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"To me, Monty Python and the Holy Grail is the funniest movie ever made. There are influences in this film that caused me to write Black Dynamite. I’m such a Monty Python Fan. I think that the layers of humor go from absurdly silly to very intellectual and then you have the physical humor on top of that. I don’t think I’ve seen a movie as physically and mentally funny with the brilliance of satire and political humor underneath it. This movie is just so layered, and again it is what influenced me in writing Black Dynamite."

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Charlotte (210 KP) rated The Power in Books

Jan 6, 2018  
The Power
The Power
Naomi Alderman | 2017 | Fiction & Poetry
10
7.9 (13 Ratings)
Book Rating
an incredibly interesting concept with a fast paced plot (3 more)
very interesting structure of the book as a book within a book, etc.
a thought provoking commentary on gender, religion, power, war and the future of these things, even with hints towards the dangerous future of chemical/atomic/nuclear weaponry
i am sure that this will be made into a movie (it really is of grand proportions) and i can only hope they do it justice
truly disturbing at times (0 more)
THANK YOU FOR THIS NOVEL NAOMI ALDERMAN
i cannot encourage anyone to read this book enough. what a concept for a novel!! especially biting from the perspective of a female reader, it reads as a disturbing and compelling gender political satire that sometimes hits a little too close to home. i implore you to read it and reconsider the gender political landscape of our modern society
  
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Hugh Bonneville recommended Being There (1979) in Movies (curated)

 
Being There (1979)
Being There (1979)
1979 | Comedy, Drama
8.3 (3 Ratings)
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"I think it’s because it is about a truly simple character in a truly extraordinary situation, and the way that simplicity can be misconstrued as genius and vice versa. I just think it’s a beautiful, beautiful performance [from Peter Sellers]. I think it’s his finest performance. But apart from that… well, I adore Shirley MacLaine in it. I think it’s beautifully cast, [and] I think it’s richly evocative as a gentle satire on the way that political gurus can function. I just think it’s enchanting, and I think it’s an often neglected film. And I can’t find it on DVD or download and I’m really fed up with that."

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Heather Cranmer (2721 KP) created a post

Jul 7, 2020  
On my blog today, sneak a peek at the political satire novel THE REPUBLIC OF JACK by Jeffrey Kerr, and enter the #GIVEAWAY to #win a signed copy of the book!

https://alltheupsandowns.blogspot.com/2020/07/book-blog-tour-and-giveaway-republic-of.html

**BOOK SYNOPSIS**
Jack Cowherd will do anything to win the Texas governorship, even flirt with twenty-first-century secessionists in the Texas Patriot Party. Victory is achieved, but only at the cost of Texas being tossed out of the United States. The Republic of Texas lives again! And Jack is president.

Friend and political advisor Tasha Longoria has long warned Jack of the dangers of his demagoguery. Now when he tries to halt the madness, the worst comes to pass: he is impeached, arrested, and charged with treason, the penalty for which is death.

Jack has but one chance to save his beloved Texas, not to mention his life. But success depends upon help from the one person least likely to give it . . . Tasha.