Tag: Satire

• Dr. Strangelove (1964)

  

  A timeless satire with relevance to any decade, Dr. Strangelove is a perfect example of how comedy can make light of a nuclear threat

  Jon Pascuzzi

  April 12, 2023

  Movie Review

  Black Comedy, Comedy, Dr. Strangelove or: How I Stopped Worrying and Love the Bomb, George C. Scott, Jack Creley, James Earl Jones, Keenan Wynn, Movie Review, Peter Bull, Peter Sellers, Reel Interpretations, Rotten Tomatoes, Satire, Shane Rimmer, Slim Pickins, Stanley Kubrick, Sterling Hayden, Tracy Reed

• Triangle of Sadness (2022)

  

  An attack on the senses, Ruben Östlund’s sharply written Triangle of Sadness doesn’t quite address the themes in a cohesive manner

  Jon Pascuzzi

  February 15, 2023

  Movie Review

  2022 Movies, 95 Academy Awards, Academy Awards, Amanda Walker, Best Picture, Black Comedy, Charlbi Dean, Dolly de Leon, Harris Dickinson, Henrik Dorsin, Iris Berben, Neon, Oliver Ford Davies, Reel Interpretations, Rotten Tomatoes, Ruben Östlund, Satire, Sunnyi Melles, Triangle of Sadness, Vicki Berlin, Woody Harrelson, Zlatko Burić

• Weird: The Al Yankovic Story (2022)

  

  Weird: The Al Yankovic Story: Like the music industry, Weird Al takes his talents to parody the biopic genre in a perfectly suitable and absurd manner

  Jon Pascuzzi

  January 2, 2023

  Movie Review

  Biopic, Comedy, Daniel Radcliffe, Eric Appel, Evan Rachel Wood, Jack Lancaster, Julianne Nicholson, Movie Review, New Releases, Parody, Rainn Wilson, Reel Interpretations, Rotten Tomatoes, Satire, Spencer Treat Clark, Toby Huss, Tommy O'Brien, Weird Al Yankovic, Weird: The Al Yankovic Story

• The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent (2022)

  

  The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent: With something for everyone, whether you’re a fan of Cage or not, no matter the era, the nostalgia presented is sure to make anyone go back and revisit the actor’s filmography

  Jon Pascuzzi

  April 15, 2022

  Uncategorized

  2022 Movies, Alessandra Mastronardi, Comedy, Ike Barinholtz, Movie Review, Neil Patrick Harris, New Releases, Nicholas Cage, Pedro Pascal, Reel Interpretations, Ripe Banana, Rotten Tomatoes, Satire, Sharon Horgan, The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent, Tiffany Haddish, Tom Gormican

• Don’t Look Up (2021)

  

  Don’t Look Up: 2 and a half hours of deflection, distraction, nonsense and static noise that leaves you drained of any energy despite a star studded cast

  Jon Pascuzzi

  January 5, 2022

  Uncategorized

  2021 Movies, Adam McKay, Cate Blanchett, Comedy, Don’t Look Up, Drama, Himesh Patel, Jennifer Lawrence, Jonah Hill, Leonardo DiCaprio, Mark Rylance, Melanie Lynskey, Meryl Streep, New Releases, Reel Interpretations, Rob Morgan, Ron Perlman, Rotten Tomatoes, Satire, Timothee Chalamet, Tyler Perry

• What We Do In the Shadows (2015)

  

  Click below to read my thoughts on the 2015 mockumentary comedy What We Do in the Shadows directed by Taika Waititi & Jemaine Clement

  Jon Pascuzzi

  July 6, 2020

  Uncategorized

  Comedy, Mockumentary, New Zealand, Satire, Taika Waititi, Undead Society, Vampires, What We Do in the Shadows

• Top 10 Movies of 2019 (#5 – #1)

  

  Click below to see my top 5 favorite films of 2019.

  Jon Pascuzzi

  May 23, 2020

  Uncategorized

  Academy Awards, best of the year, foreign film, Murder Mystery, Oscar nominees, Satire, top10, WWI