Brecht Plays: v. 8: Antigone of Sophocles, The Days of the Commune, Turandot or the Whitewasher's Congress
Bertolt Brecht, Tom Kuhn and David J. Constantine
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The latest volume in Methuen's Collected Brecht includes two plays previously untranslated into...
Still Holding: A Novel of Hollywood
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Bruce Wagner has been hailed for his powerful prose, his Swiftian satire, and the scalpel-sharp wit...
The Jigsaw and the Fan
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The Jigsaw And The Fan is described as social satire. How much trouble can one disgruntled ghost...
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
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John Oliver won an Emmy for his work as a writer on "The Daily Show With Jon Stewart," but it wasn't...
A Confederacy of Dunces
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John Kennedy Toole's hilarious satire, A Confederacy of Dunces is a Don Quixote for the modern age,...
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Awix (3310 KP) rated Dredd (2012) in Movies
Feb 25, 2018 (Updated Feb 25, 2018)
Still doesn't quite achieve the humour, satire, or general SF weirdness of the comic strip at its best, and to be honest the sheer brutality of the film is a little off-putting in places, but Urban is about as good as Dredd as you can imagine a major film star being, and everyone else does serviceable work (Thirlby's character is essentially Judge Anderson in only the broadest possible sense). Stylish and well-made, even if it struggles with the facts that a) the best Judge Dredd film ever made is still Robocop and b) it has (coincidentally) exactly the same premise as The Raid, which came out the same year.
Distraction Pieces
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The Times Bestseller (Non-Fiction) Join Scroobius Pip as he gets to the bottom of what matters most...