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‘Coyote Vs. ACME’ Vs. ‘Digger’

November 8, 2026 J. Barnes 0 Comments A Midsummer Night's Dream, ACME Corporation, Alejandro González Iñárritu, animal testing, animated comedy, Aristophanes, Buddy Crane, capitalism, cartoon comedy, Charles Koch, climate change, climate change denial, comedy film criticism, comedy movies, contemporary cinema, corporate accountability, corporate corruption, corporate ethics, corporate greed, corporate lobbying, corporate satire, Coyote Vs. Acme, Coyote Vs. ACME review, Daffy Duck, dark comedy, Digger, Digger movie review, environmental activism, environmental destruction, environmental politics, environmental satire, film criticism, film morality, Foghorn Leghorn, fossil fuels, government regulation, Hollywood blockbusters, Lee Raymond, live-action animation, Looney Tunes, Marx Brothers, Michael Wirth, movie comparisons, movie reviews, oil industry, Peter Lorre, political corruption, political filmmaking, political satire, Road Runner, satire in cinema, scientific ethics, Shakespeare, slapstick comedy, The Clouds, The Merchant of Venice, The Wasps, Tom Cruise, unethical experimentation, Warner Bros., whistleblowers, Wile E. Coyote

What makes a film about corporate greed and its repercussions succeed, or fail?

‘Wild Horse Nine’ Is Full of Hysterical but Horrible Remorse

November 6, 2026November 6, 2026 Stephen Garrett 0 Comments 1970s period films, 1973 Chilean coup, absurdist humor, American foreign policy, Augusto Pinochet, Bay of Pigs, betrayal, black comedy, character driven drama, Chile, CIA, CIA history, Cold War, Cold War espionage, Congo, covert operations, Cuba, dark comedy, Easter Island, espionage films, existential comedy, film criticism, Friendship, gallows humor, government corruption, Guatemala, guilt and regret, historical fiction, In Bruges, Indonesia, intelligence agencies, John F. Kennedy assassination, John Malkovich, loyalty, Martin McDonagh, Martin McDonagh films, melancholic comedy, mercy killing, misanthropy, Moai statues, moral ambiguity, moral responsibility, mortality, movie reviews, Parker Posey, Patrice Lumumba, political assassinations, political satire, political thriller, Rapa Nui, redemption, Salvador Allende, Sam Rockwell, Santiago, spy movies, Steve Buscemi, terminal illness, The Banshees of Inisherin, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri, Tom Waits, US interventionism, Wild Horse Nine, Wild Horse Nine review

John Malkovich and Sam Rockwell take Martin McDonagh’s jaded Cold War warriors and turn them into Big Heads on Easter Island

‘Wicker’ Provides a Rom-Com Interlaced With Substance

November 1, 2026 Stephen Garrett 0 Comments absurdist comedy, Alex Huston Fischer, Alexander Skarsgard, body autonomy, Brothers Grimm, class and society, dark comedy, Eleanor Wilson, Elizabeth Debicki, erotic comedy, fairy tale adaptations, fairy tales, fantasy comedy, fantasy film, female sexuality, feminist cinema, feminist comedy, feminist fable, film adaptation, film criticism, folk fantasy, folk horror, folklore, gallows humor, gender roles, gossip, independent cinema, jealousy, love and devotion, magical craftsmanship, magical realism, marriage, medieval fantasy, movie reviews, Olivia Colman, ostracism, outsiders, patriarchal society, patriarchy, Peter Dinklage, Richard E. Grant, romantic comedy, romantic fantasy, satire, sexual desire, sexual repression, small-town prejudice, social conformity, social satire, The Wicker Husband, unconventional romance, Ursula Wills, Wicker, Wicker film review, wicker man, Wicker movie

Olivia Colman and Alexander Skarsgård tentpole this offbeat drama from Alex Huston Fischer and Eleanor Wilson

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‘Buy the Dip’ Mixes Politics and Parenting in a Dark Comic Special

October 15, 2026October 15, 2026 Robert Dean 0 Comments Bill Hicks, Buy the Dip, comedy review, comedy specials, current events, dark comedy, fatherhood, FBI, Indian American comedians, Jeremy Allen White, Kash Patel, Kill Tony, Netflix, Netflix comedy, Nimesh Patel, observational comedy, parenting, political comedy, satire, Stand Up Comedy, stand-up special, Streaming, Tony Hinchcliffe

SNL Writer Nimesh Patel Buys Low and Aims High in His First Solo Netflix

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Thrilling, Funny, and Sad Tales of Modern Manhood

June 25, 2026June 29, 2026 Jake Harris 0 Comments American Fiction, American South, book criticism, Book Review, comedy writing, contemporary fiction, cultural satire, Danny McBride, dark comedy, Divorce, Eastbound and Down, fatherhood, Fight Club, genre fiction, Halloween, humor books, June 2026 books, Kenny Powers, literary fiction, masculinity, mens fiction, midlife crisis, modern manhood, Pop Culture, Random House, satire, short stories, short story collection, Southern literature, Stephen King, television creators, The Exorcist, The Righteous Gemstones, Thrilling Tales of Modern Men, Vice Principals

Danny McBride wonders: Are the men OK?

‘The Drama’ Uses Vomit in Place of Emotion, That’s Just the Start

April 10, 2026April 10, 2026 Neal Pollack 1 Comment Alana Haim, Boston films, controversial films, dark comedy, European cinema, film criticism, film review, Indie Film, Kristoffer Borgli, Mamoudou Athie, Millennials, Robert Pattinson, romantic comedy satire, The Drama, Zendaya

Kristoffer Borgli wants to skewer modern romcom conventions but ends with a smug exercise in millennial self-loathing

Why ‘In Bruges’ Is the Ultimate, Unlikely Christmas Movie

December 22, 2025December 22, 2025 Leslie Vooris 1 Comment Brendan Gleeson, Catholic symbolism, Christmas movies, Colin Farrell, dark comedy, In Bruges, Martin McDonagh, Ralph Fiennes

Colin Farrell’s torment is a seasonal lesson

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Yorgos Lanthimos’ ‘Bugonia’ Stings with Paranoid Precision

November 2, 2025November 5, 2025 Stephen Garrett 0 Comments absurdism, AI paranoia, Aidan Delbis, Alicia Silverstone, big pharma, Bugonia, conspiracy culture, dark comedy, Emma Stone, film review, Jesse Plemons, Pete Seeger, psychological thriller, satire, Save the Green Planet, Stavros Halkias, Yorgos Lanthimos

Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons electrify in a hallucinatory satire about the human urge to find meaning in chaos

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16 New Books To Read in November

November 1, 2026November 4, 2026 Art McPhail 0

From Gary Shteyngart’s pursuit of pleasure to Rachel Maddow’s reckoning with American justice, November brings literary ambition, political urgency and some gloriously strange fiction.

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Norm Was a Vibe

October 31, 2026November 4, 2026 Rob Kutner 1

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Paweł Pawlikowski Drives Us Through a Decimated ‘Fatherland’

October 24, 2026October 28, 2026 Stephen Garrett 0

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But ‘Who is Martin Mull?’

October 21, 2026October 26, 2026 Samuel Porteous 0

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