Fresh off Indy Black Solo Fest, the Indianapolis Black Theater Co. has announced its season of three plays that will take place across 2026. The shows — which contend with stereotypes aimed at Black ...

Satire is and has always been a difficult media genre to write. If a film or TV show goes too subtle in its approach, it’s often criticized as toothless or not savage enough. But go too big and there ...

A stellar cast can't save James L. Brooks' dramedy in theaters this week. Luckily, there are other choices, including an Alia Shawkat-led military satire and a horror fantasy from the creator of ...

50 years later, Sidney Lumet’s Network still feels surprisingly (and hauntingly) relevant. The media landscape has moved on, but the bones of the film’s satirical commentary are timeless. The ...

Tom Lehrer, the renowned American satirist, singer-songwriter, and mathematician best known for his darkly humorous songs that skewered politics, social taboos, and the absurdities of the Cold War era ...

Starring director Bahman Ark as Bahram, the story centers on a mid-career filmmaker whose entire body of Turkish-Azeri-language work has never been screened in Iran. When his newest film is once again ...

A quick look at the news every day is enough to test anyone’s sanity, blurring the once firm border between truth and fiction even before AI has taken hold in any meaningful way. And as the events of ...

Leaves and bodies fall in “No Other Choice,” Park Chan-wook’s masterfully devilish satire with a chilling autumnal wind blowing through it. “Come on, fall,” urges You Man-su (Lee Byung-hun) as he ...