Movies about war have long been popular with audiences. There are some movies that provide a unique perspective on war by satirizing the chaotic nature of these events. Satire can be a powerful tool ...

Most great satire takes high aim at those lofty institutions bearing down on us from atop towers of bullshit - bureaucracy, politics, and all your favorite ‘isms - but we’ll get to all that later. To ...

Diego Pineda has been a devout storyteller his whole life. He has self-published a fantasy novel and a book of short stories, and is actively working on publishing his second novel. A lifelong fan of ...

Comedy and politics have been a match made in heaven for as long as conflict has existed. With this in mind, the current presidency has led to a surge in comedians taking jabs at the administration ...

In two recent posts, I touched on both nonverbal and verbal types of formal humor. In this one, I continue our review of the latter category by discussing two styles of humor seen quite regularly in ...

Recent releases like “American Fiction” and “The American Society of Magical Negroes” have used absurdist humor to examine race. But they have also depicted narrow views of Blackness. By Maya Phillips ...

Contra Theodor Adorno, it is mercifully untrue that the writing of poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric. Nevertheless, modes of artistic expression do rise and fall as history shuffles from one corridor ...

Helldivers 2, a hit video game from Arrowhead Game Studios, challenges players to work together as an elite team of soldiers to save Earth by pushing back invading hordes of space bugs, cyborgs and ...