I Can't Stop Thinking About The Blackening, Especially For How On Point The Horror Satire Is

Emilia Clarke and Chiwetel Ejiofor star in a new movie, The Pod Generation, which is all about people of the future having babies in plastic eggs.

From RoboCop to La Dolce Vita, here are our picks for the best satire films of all time.

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If you haven't heard of the Comedy Central series Corporate, that's totally understandable and you do not need to explain why to anyone — including the show itself. Corporate gets it. At least, that's the biggest takeaway from last night's Season 3 premiere, "Pickles 4 Breakfast," which, in 22 minutes, delivers not just one of the most savage satires of today's streaming culture, but brings with it a new layer of existential dread. In the episode, Hampton DeView, the streaming service operated by evil corporation Hampton DeVille, has hit a crisis point, driven by poorly received …

HBO Max is low-key one of the best streaming services currently out there, and it’ll soon be adding to its already robust catalogue with the sci-fi horror satire Shell. The service acquired the spec script written by Jack Stanley with Max Minghella attached to direct. [caption id="attachment_611216" align="alignright" width="360"] Image via Hulu[/caption] As reported by Deadline, plot details are being kept under wraps, although sources say it is centered on the health and beauty industry. Minghella is best known as an actor, having appeared in The Handmaid’s Tale and The Mindy Project …

If art is a mirror we hold up to the world in order to show some truth about our existence, then Search Party is a magnifying glass. The first two seasons of the TBS series are now available on HBO Max, which means it's about time you started watching before Season 3 drops on June 25. Search Party stars Alia Shawkat, John Reynolds, John Early, and Meredith Hagner as a quartet of Brooklyn twenty-somethings looking for a friend who appears to have gone missing. In the search for a friend, this group must also grapple with their own …

Hulu has released the first trailer for The Great, a satirical period piece from the Oscar-nominated co-writer of The Favourite, Tony McNamara. The series stars Elle Fanning as Catherine the Great, the outsider who maneuvered her way to becoming Russia's longest-reigning leader. This looks...a whole lot like The Favourite, down to the dances, rabbits hunts, and the inclusion of Nicolas Hoult. I know it's probably not the same house, but it also looks like they went and just used the same house. This is a good thing, by the way. The Favourite was one …

Satire, at its best, offers an angle or viewpoint you didn't consider before. It provides clear revelation on a complicated subject. Think of Parasite, which doesn't say the word "capitalism" once, but constructs an entire narrative explaining the economic system's weaknesses while still using believable characters within a compelling framework. Craig Zobel's new movie The Hunt, by comparison, aspires to be satire but at best it's a thought experiment and at worst it's what would happen if a dopey pundit like Chris Cillizza tried to write a screenplay. Working from a script by Damon …

Adam McKay's one busy dude, and it turns out we're gonna get his next movie a bit earlier than you probably expected. Netflix has scooped up McKay's sci-fi satire Don't Look Up with Jennifer Lawrence set to star. We first heard about the project last year, when McKay described it as a “dark satire in the school of Wag the Dog, Doctor Strangelove and Network," and added, "if it is half as good as any of them, I will be happy.” And Don't Look Up didn't just find a home quickly, it's …

If you're a fan of bawdy Victorian adaptations filled with top hats, frocks, and overall cheekiness then you're positively feasting this week, first with a new Personal History of David Copperfield trailer and now this, a new trailer for Emma complete with a set of character posters. Directed by Autumn de Wilde in his feature directorial debut, Emma is based on the beloved Jane Austen novel about matchmaking and romantic misadventures. Anya Taylor-Joy (The Witch) stars as the title character, a socialite in a sleepy town navigating romance, courtship, and all the local hot goss. She's …

Starship Troopers is first and foremost an action movie, but there is also a ton of hilarious satire packed into this Sci-Fi epic.

Taika Waititi's Jojo Rabbit is a satirical comedy that's being praised by all. If you like that movie, here are 10 satires you should watch.

You've never had a bad hair day quite like Anna Bludso, the ambitious protagonist of writer/director Justin Simien's sophomore feature Bad Hair. Newcomer Elle Lorraine delivers a breakout performance as Anna, who dreams of becoming an on-air host at Culture, a TV channel that plays R&B music videos. Anna has been toiling away as an executive assistant for the past four years when her boss and mentor (Judith Scott) decides to leave Culture. A new boss is brought in, and Anna, like many of her co-workers, fears for her job, especially since she'…

In a time when action films were becoming redundant, the sci-fi satire, Demolition Man, helped revive the genre. These are some of the best moments.

At first blush, it may seem odd that Michael Bay, a director who has multiple $1 billion-grossing movies to his credit, would be cranking out a Netflix film, especially when it would appear that studios would still have an appetite for his brand of action filmmaking. But watching his latest effort, 6 Underground, you can see how much the world has left Bay behind. While other action movies are pushing the envelope, Bay is still churning out his combination of explosions, incomprehensible editing, and violence. Paired with a retrograde, neo-conservative script from Deadpool writers Rhett Reese & Paul …

Heroland is a light-hearted look at the turn-based RPG, whose charm is slightly undermined by an over-reliance on grinding and repetitive gameplay.

Fight Club's satire might have been lost on some people, but those who appreciate it would definitely love these other satirical films.

Filmmaker Adam McKay has had quite the unpredictable career. From head writing on Saturday Night Live, to making Will Ferrell comedy classics Anchorman and Step Brothers, to making political muckrakers The Big Short and Vice, to helping birth the "It Show" of the moment Succession -- McKay's points of interest seem to know no bounds. Now, as reported by Deadline, McKay will keep poking the hornet's nest of hot-button issues with newly founded production company Hyperobject Industries. Their deal with Paramount Pictures will hopefully foster the home for McKay's next directorial project: Don't Look Up. If …

If you ever watched David Fincher’s electrifying 1999 movie Fight Club and thought, “We should start a fight club!” then congratulations, you have missed the point of Fight Club. When the film was released twenty years ago today, it was a lukewarm success at the box office, garnering only $100 million worldwide off a $63 million budget. However, thanks to the burgeoning DVD market, Fight Club quickly found its audience thanks to one of the best DVD releases of all-time packed with special features and a message that resonated with audiences. However, that message has been misinterpreted over …