The Candidate (1972)
Although decades old, The Candidate still feels more resonant now as the year it was released. In fact, it’s a satire so spot-on that it’s often hard to distinguish when screenwriter Jeremy Larner’s script is...
Tagged: satire
Cabin Fever (2002)
As a satire of schlock-horror, Cabin Fever had the potential to be much better than most attempts at covering the same ground in recent years. As an homage, it also could have done the same. However,...
Citizen Ruth (1996)
There is a George Carlin routine in which he states that given the right context, there really is no taboo subject for comedy. He states that even something as serious as rape can be...
South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut (1999)
Granted, I have never been much of a fan of the “South Park” TV show. I think that the humor is too easy, merely relying on vulgarities in the absence of true wit. Some...
Bulworth (1998)
California Senator Jay Bulworth (Beatty) is disgusted with the empty politician he has become and in a suicidal fit of despair, he plunks down for a large insurance policy then puts a hit out for...
The Kentucky Fried Movie (1977)
Three years before the trio of comedy writers of Jim Abrahams, David Zucker and Jerry Zucker (Top Secret!, Ruthless People) would score their mega-hit Airplane!, they made this sporadically funny, screwball vignette comedy flick which...
A Clockwork Orange (1971)
In the near future of Great Britain, a band of teenage hooligans rape and torture citizens for pleasure, with no respect for elders or authority. One day the leader of the hooligans, Alex (McDowell, Caligula),...