Posts Tagged ‘satire’

Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (2004)

Sunday, April 13th, 2008
Genres: Comedy
Countries: USA
Actors: Ferrell, Will | Applegate, Christina | Rudd, Paul | Carell, Steve | Koechner, David | Willard, Fred | Parnell, Chris | Hahn, Kathryn | Armisen, Fred | Rogen, Seth | Tompkins, Paul F. | Trejo, Danny | Robinson, Scot | Roberts, Ian | Donavan, Darcy
Directors: McKay, Adam
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Ron Burgundy (Ferrell) is the top-rated anchorman in San Diego in the ’70s. When feminism marches into the newsroom in the form of ambitious newswoman Veronica Corningstone (Applegate), Ron is willing to play along at first-as long as Veronica stays in her place, covering cat fashion shows, cooking, and other “female” interests. But when Veronica refuses to settle for being eye candy and steps behind the news desk, it’s more than a battle between two perfectly coiffed anchor-persons… it’s war.

Mouse That Roared, The (1959)

Friday, February 22nd, 2008
Genres: Comedy | War
Countries: UK
Actors: Sellers, Peter | Seberg, Jean | Hartnell, William | Kossoff, David | Leo McKern | Parke, MacDonald | Willis, Austin | Bateson, Timothy | Landis, Monte | Gifford, Alan | Gordon, Colin | Kasket, Harold | Brown, Wally | Cey, Jacques | Clay, Charles
Directors: Arnold, Jack
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The best laid plans of mice and men … A cold war satire emphasising the new emerged American Superpower’s use of foreign aid to buy friends and keep then away from the USSR’s influence. Peter Sellers, as the scheming Prime Minister of Grand Fenwick, plots with Peter Sellers, as the scheming Grand Duchess, to declare war on the USA, lose and get that foreign aid. Unfortunately, they forget to tell Peter Sellers, as Tully Bascombe, commander of their mediaeval army. This honourable man does his best for his country and through a series of unbelievable circumstances (well, this is a comedy) to win. Now, who has to give aid to whom?

Trading Places (1983)

Friday, February 22nd, 2008
Genres: Comedy
Countries: USA
Actors: Elliott, Denholm | Aykroyd, Dan | Woods, Maurice | Fisher Jr., Richard D. | Gallagher, Jim | DiSabatino, Anthony | Behrend, Bonnie | Merrill, Sunnie | Newell, James | St. John, Mary | Tremena, Bonnie | Schwartz, David | Bellamy, Ralph | Ameche, Don | Degidon, Tom
Directors: Landis, John
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Louis Winthorpe III is a successful Philadelphia commodity broker with mansion, manservant and girlfriend to match. Billy Ray Valentine is a hustling beggar. Winthorpe’s employers, the elderly Duke brothers, make a bet that by switching the lifestyle of the two Billy Ray will make good and their man will take to a life of crime. Suddenly Louis finds himself uncomprehendingly with no job, no home and only a new acquaintance, glamorous hooker Ophelia, prepared to help him. So at least in one way things could actually be worse.

Fantastic Planet, The (1973)

Friday, February 22nd, 2008
Genres: Animation | Sci-Fi
Countries: Czechoslovakia | France
Actors: Drake, Jennifer | Baugin, Eric | Topart, Jean | Valmont, Jean | Lenoir, Sylvie | Chahan, Michèle | Barsacq, Yves | de Lapparent, Hubert | Hernandez, Gérard | Joseph, Claude | Ogouz, Philippe | Ruisseau, Jacques | Bostwick, Barry | Gruner, Mark | Miller, Marvin
Directors: Laloux, René
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La Planète sauvage AKA Fantastic Planet is a surrealist story based on the Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia. Set in a far distant world human beings or “Oms”have been domesticated by the gigantic Draags. Wild Oms however are a problem and are exterminated by the dozen. One domesticated om Terr is able to escape his masters with a headset that puts information directly into the brain. Armed now with the Draags technology he leads the Oms in an attempt to make life better for them…But will the deomizing destroy them?

Being There (1979)

Tuesday, February 19th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Sellers, Peter | MacLaine, Shirley | Douglas, Melvyn | Warden, Jack | Dysart, Richard | Basehart, Richard | Attaway, Ruth | Clennon, David | Brill, Fran | DuBarry, Denise | Burbridge, Oteil | Keller III, Ravenell | Corrigan, Brian | Brown, Alfredine P. | Jacob, Donald
Directors: Ashby, Hal
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A simple-minded gardener named Chance has spent all his life in the Washington D.C. house of an old man. When the man dies, Chance is put out on the street with no knowledge of the world except what he has learned from television. After a run in with a limousine, he ends up a guest of a woman (Eve) and her husband Ben, an influential but sickly businessman. Now called Chauncey Gardner, Chance becomes friend and confidante to Ben, and an unlikely political insider.

This Is Spinal Tap (1984)

Tuesday, February 19th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Music
Countries: USA
Actors: Stringer, Kimberly | Dominguez, Chazz | Hall, Shari | Parnell, R.J. | Kaff, David | Hendra, Tony | McKean, Michael | Guest, Christopher | Shearer, Harry | Kirby, Bruno | Cromie, Jean | Maher, Patrick | Begley Jr., Ed | Kortchmar, Danny
Directors: Reiner, Rob
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Marti DeBergi is a film-maker who decides to make a documentary, a rockumentary actually, about the world’s loudest band, the British heavy metal group Spinal Tap. The movie is in fact a biting satire and spoof of the whole rock and roll scene that passes itself off as a real documentary of a real band. Hilarious behind-the-scenes footage is combined with faux-concert clips to breath life into the imaginary group.

All Together, The (2007)

Monday, February 18th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: UK
Actors: Freeman, Martin | Johnson, Corey | Topic, Velibor | Dyer, Danny | Harrington, Richard | Abbington, Amanda | Kenna, Jamie | Edwards, Charles | Ryland, Jonathan | Thompson, Ian | Hutchison, Nicholas | Bamber, David | Gilbreath, Alexandra | Marcia Warren | Brown, Wendy Mae
Directors: Claxton, Gavin
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Martin Freeman plays Chris, a frustrated TV producer who is forced to leave his unreliable flatmate Bob played by Velibor Topic in charge of showing a series of real estate agents around the house he is trying to sell. Worried by Bob’s habit of spending all day working in the basement playing loud music, Chris asks his friend to listen out for the door bell and show anyone who comes calling inside. Bob promises to do exactly that and for once, not to let him down. Over the course of the day, whilst Chris struggles to cope with his insane TV presenter colleague Jerry, played by Richard Harrington - back at the house it is soon clear that bonkers Bob is taking his promise to Chris rather too literally. Bob has indeed, allowed anyone inside, including a couple of gun-toting gangsters - an incompetent young Brit played by Danny Dyer and an incontinent American played by Corey Johnson. That evening, Chris is surprised to return home and find his flatmate, four estate agents, two Jehovah’s Witnesses, a corpse and a terrified children’s entertainer in what remains of his flooded kitchen. Of course, a roomful of water and broken furniture doesn’t mean the end of the world - but the half-crazed American sitting outside the toilet with a gun, just might.

Blades of Glory (2007)

Sunday, February 17th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Sport
Countries: USA
Actors: Ferrell, Will | Heder, Jon | Arnett, Will | Poehler, Amy | Fischer, Jenna | Fichtner, William | Nelson, Craig T. | Malco, Romany | Swardson, Nick | Hamilton, Scott | Richter, Andy | Lindsay, Greg | Corddry, Rob | Jameson, Nick | Virtue, Tom
Directors: Gordon, Josh
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When rivalry between the world’s best men’s figure skaters - sex addicted, improvisational Chazz Michael Michaels and germophobic, precise Jimmy MacElroy - breaks into a fight on the awards platform, they’re banned from the event for life. Three years later, desire for a gold medal and a careful reading of the rules lead them to compete as skating’s first male-male pair. Can they overcome mutual dislike, limited time to prepare, their coach’s secret past, and the dirty tricks of their main opponents, the Van Waldenberg siblings? The key to victory or defeat may lie in the attraction of the virginal Jimmy toward Katie, the Van Waldenbergs’ little sister.

Astronaut Farmer, The (2006)

Sunday, February 17th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Thornton, Billy Bob | Madsen, Virginia | Thieriot, Max | Polish, Jasper | Polish, Logan | Dern, Bruce | Polish, Mark | Gries, Jon | Nelson, Tim Blake | Lopez, Sal | J.K. Simmons | Kiersten Warren | Overton, Rick | Edson, Richard | Eberle, Elise
Directors: Polish, Michael
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Texan Charles Farmer left the Air Force as a young man to save the family ranch when his dad died. Like most American ranchers, he owes his bank. Unlike most, he’s an astrophysicist with a rocket in his barn - one he’s built and wants to take into space. It’s his dream. The FBI puts him under surveillance when he tries to buy rocket fuel; the FAA stalls him when he files a flight plan - it’s post-9/11, after all. His wife is angry when she finds out their bank is initiating foreclosure. Charlie fears failure and decides, precipitously, to launch. Are twenty-first century American dreams just a sign of insanity? Are those who believe in dreamers only fools?

Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny (2006)

Sunday, February 17th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Music
Countries: USA
Actors: Black, Jack | Gass, Kyle | Reed, Jason | Dio, Ronnie James | Tompkins, Paul F. | Gentile, Troy | Bellamy, Ned | Armisen, Fred | Ward, Kelly | Poehler, Amy | Robbins, Tim | Grohl, David | Stiller, Ben | Everly, Lara | Eldridge, Brittany
Directors: Lynch, Liam
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This is the story of a friendship that changes the course of rock history forever, of the fateful collision of minds between JB and KG that led to the creation of the precedent-shattering band Tenacious D, and of the two heroes’ quest to find the fabled Guitar Pick Of Destiny…